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As the process of production becomes more automated the most valuable factor in the economy will become information. Already we can see this trend and the value of information just isn't measurable by market forces. Take wikipedia for example. Not only is it not owned by anyone, it's actually physically impossible to own. It makes no profit and cannot contribute to GDP so it's contribution to hum…

This is exactly law enforcement shouldn't use facial recognition. Innocent people will get arrested way more often than before.

A bit random question: How much do test kits like this usually cost? Is this in single-double-triple digit numbers?

Same, his policies have been so destructive since coming into office, I have to wonder where this is coming from now. Maybe he just took a back seat and let the experts lead?

You won’t though, it’s all talk. People love their salaries in the US. You ain’t going anywhere.

The two things I always want to mention when these things are discussed are 1. The war, if there is one, will not be 20th century style, it will involve EMP weapons and attacking satellites. Both countries can absolutely cripple each other even without bombing civilians. 2. China can't just attack Taiwan and the rest of the world not [notice.](https://notice.It) It isn't Crimea. I am not sure…

2nd financial crisis in my life and I'm expected to have a job and hope for the future. I feel dead and I'm only 26.

Work in IT consulting and yea, pretty much. The trend is shifting away from a large amount of people doing simple / rule based tasks and replacing them with intelligent automation. Focus less on generating results and more on analyzing them and making decisions for future. Lot of people will be out of work when this catches on. I doubt it’ll be a few years from now as most major companies are v…

Trying. I thought that the lockdown + unemployment with stimulus pay would be a great vacation. Then, me and two former coworkers went nuts. They’ve voluntarily gone back to work, and I’m waiting to hear back on applications. Unemployment with no end in sight (even with weekly pay) is just hell, imo. You wake up every day with no purpose, and spend tons of time in your own head. I’ve been ou…

Taiwan can't keep up with the demand and Taiwan would be able to benefit from this as well. There's also more to Taiwan than CPU manufacturing for the same reasons there's more to Silicon Valley than Intel. More to the point, if China is able to destroy Taiwan or occupy it then western industry stops due to a lack of chips.. essentially the situation US automakers face now and will continue to fa…

It’s hard to separate the very real and urgent concerns from the global politicos at play. A lot of these countries knew what they were doing, but they stayed quiet until it is someone else’s turn. Nevertheless, I don’t think letting everyone have a turn at beating up our planet is a viable strategy.

I have seen a lot of news about the vaccine efforts to get people vaccinated . I have heard no news about developing better or new vaccines for covid 19. Are any of the big pharma companies working on covering more of the proteins that covid uses to get in the he cells.

BTW this new variant is called Omnicron.. Tell me that doesn't sound like a super villain boss who can take over the mind of its host.

AI has indeed made giant leaps in the last decade but there's every indication that it's only the beginning. AI research is on a roll and progress is only expected to accelerate. What particularly worries AI scientists are the prospects of fully autonomous killer robots. Imagine. Not present-day drones, which only shoot when instructed towards targets set by a human, but a borg-like 10-thousand…

I tried that but the AI in my scissors alerted the police and then Apple bricked them, so I had nothing to cut with.

This is a hot take, but things like chat GPT, AI art generators, and the like need to be nationalized and made publicly available. Especially since a large portion of the database used for these programs is trained on public domain information. The rest is all copywritten information that's stolen via scrubbing things like Wikipedia, Art Station, etc. This stuff is more akin to a library than a …

>These people in congress right now might as well be cavemen trying to understand how to write a computer program. This isn't just true when it comes to AI. It's true in almost every field. Creating a new government body won't help. You'll just get more of the same.

If you do that you will find it just makes up the sources or they don't actually say what it claims in most cases. ChatGPT (at least pre-4) doesn't know much.

Pretty sure Vice already replaced all their writers with GPT-4, so I guess they are pretty knowledgeable on this particular topic.

Agreed. Considering all the crazy teachers that are failing students for "detecting" ChatGPT on their tests and homework, I wonder how well the legal people are accepting ChatGPT. I'm thinking not so well.