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And so it begins. I love it. I didn't think self driving cars would be common in my lifetime, but it is going to happen. By the way, it is pretty cool to be behind the wheel of a car that is driving itself.

Yes, things have gotten hectic and all the dumb stuff has been automated away.. All the lifting, moving, crafting, bending manual labor has been automated away.. Now you get to use your unique human skill, your intelligence to work at problems that machines cannot solve yet... Slowly but surely all the smart stuff will get machines too, and at that time you will be useless, it'll be highly unpro…

It's disasterous to the average person. The wealthy don't have a realistic outlook on what it will do to the vast majority of the population. Universal income isn't ever going to be a realistic alternative to people having occupations that provide them with enough income to live a life of reasonable comfort and stability. In 20 something years there will be mass poverty and an inevitable revolt b…

Ah, yes. The famous DEADBABIES bill. Nobody seems to want to attach their name to that.

How does having guns stop the government from setting up a "facial recognition / social credit system"?

There are billions and billions and billions of people on this planet. When any species, during any time in history, has been as successful as humans have been, what always happens? The deer eat all the food, strip the bark off of the trees. The environment is destroyed, no food can be produced, and they all starve to death. Considering how many people there are, and how the population just keeps…

Why is it trumps job to stop it? That's the goverment they want, you just want to enforce your beliefs on others. Just like them. Stay out of it, or they'll never learn to care for their own. It's not like they're going into other countries and picking muslims up. The globalist can just write them a strongly worded letter, that'll teach them!

This is very uplifting news! I wonder what the future will hold for Africa with initiatives like this one, the Great Green Wall, etc.

Just read the actual paper and the answer is no, it is not statistically significant due to confidence intervals overlapping: "... a pooled sensitivity of 87·0% (95% CI 83·0–90·2) for deep learning models and 86·4% (79·9–91·0) for health-care professionals, and a pooled specificity of 92·5% (95% CI 85·1–96·4) for deep learning models and 90·5% (80·6–95·7) for health-care professionals"

> It's a good example that shows how ~~capitalism~~ being able to outsource pollution is causing climate change and is killing the planet. Getting other countries to pollute for us was great until the pollution started ignoring borders.

I don't understand why this hasn't been a more influential result. I'm pretty confident that pigeons could outperform most fund managers, too.

Don't think he is thinking about it being a huge risk for him. Just about doing the right thing. Makes him a good leader in my eyes

It's AI, so it's likely not a flaw in how it's written, but the data with witch it was trained. You've got the right idea though, there's definitely human bias involved.

For that to occur, a good % of people would have to lose their homes/be forced out into the streets. Idk if you've been paying attention, but all the economic relief is aimed at preventing that.

I graduated high school in 2009. Eventually went back to college to have more options and just graduated last may, May 2020. I feel your pain.

I think in the 50s-60s everyone thought it would be amazing. Less work for everyone as productivity increases. I think now we’ve realized we have a resource distribution problem. We produce enough as a society, but it flows to people who already have a lot. There are millions of people who can’t afford healthcare or to feed their families because there is no room for them in a fully automate…

Have Russia and China actually waived their patents as part of their vaccine diplomacy? I know that Egypt for example is producing both vaccines, but did that involve a patent waiver?

*China’s per capita emissions in 2019 also reached 10.1 tons, nearly tripling over the past two decades.* *...* *The US still leads the world in per capita emissions, at 17.6 tons per person, according to Rhodium Group's numbers, though President Joe Biden has pledged that the US will* [*halve emissions by 2030*](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/biden-says-us-will-halve-carbon-e…

I feel like this has got to be more similar to that prison tower design, I can't remember the name of it. But basically the tower is in the center of a prison with visibility of every cell, so you'll never know if you have their eyes on you or not. In this case, if they say they'll review every comment you can never be certain they won't review what you post, so you'll be less likely to post anyt…

Digitally signing photos ( ala PGP/GPG ) is going to become a thing, and putting them into searchable databases (ala Tineye) with the identities of the photographers who signed them. Any photo or video that doesn't come with a signature ... will be sus. Also going to need the ability to digitally sign and search for snippets of photos and video - so we can find the originals of the scene around…