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Usually you check this sort of thing before releasing it…

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We waste intelligent minds on this rubbish when we are facing an existential crisis in climate change.

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The biggest risks I see with AI are making misinfomation, scams etc. a lot easier.

I remember as a kid you knew that people could just make stuff up, but a photograph was fairly reliable. Then along came Photoshop and it was trivial to make convincing fake photographs.

AI is able to do this with audio, soon with full video (perhaps already?) - so then it becomes much harder to trust anything.

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They are on the side of the aliens.

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It’s okay, but I would have preferred more of a focus on the actual technical aspects about how Cybernetics worked and helped run the country rather than a focus on the people.

Maybe it becomes like that later, I am up to the third episode.

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I find it slightly sad that when our leaders talk of Technology and Innovation - they often mean these ‘tech’ companies that essentially work out how to better sell advertising and occasionally provide a useful service alongside this.

Where is the Bell Labs? The Skunk Works?

We have incredible problems facing us such as Climate Change and decarbonisation seems like it will be a very difficult challenge. And yet we focus on banal “innovation” in frivolous things.

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Yeah, those are examples of actually innovative private enterprise.

I don’t have a problem with it being the private sector. But the problem is making a Twitter clone or a slightly better version of MySpace is barely innovating and certainly isn’t going to significantly improve the world.

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Yeah, that is true. I haven’t tried VR yet but I remember the world before Google Maps and that was a dark time.

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I agree completely.

We are already in an age where much menial work can be automated and AI seems to be well on the way to automating a lot of menial information work too. We need to focus on creating a growth mindset and a sense of wonder and curiosity that will serve the children whatever the future may hold - not just creating a holding pen so their parents can go to work.

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I have 500Mbps in Spain. Is it that bad in the American cities or is it only like rural Montana that has these speeds?

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Wow, that’s pretty good for a town of that size. I live in a city of 1.6 Million. I think I might be able to get 1 gbps if I shop around, but I don’t think much more than that is available to normal consumers at least.

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That’s the same here too. My first apartment only had ADSL. In 2015.

I couldn’t even watch Netflix without it stopping to buffer.

I really wish they would put internet speeds on apartment offers etc.

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I don’t have anything against trains, but our rail network is really limited.

If I want to go from Barcelona to Madrid, it’s easy and actually more convenient than flying albeit more expensive.

But if I want to take my kids to go and see the cool medieval castle in the mountains? There’s no train going anywhere near there.

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I guess it will be great in the wealthier countries. Here in Spain the reason EV’s are incredibly rare is simply the cost.

And rather than making them more affordable the Government just makes ICE vehicles more expensive to use, which is almost a regressive tax on those too poor to afford an EV. Especially given in many areas it’s not really optional given public transport may be unreliable or non-existent.

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I lived in Germany for some months in University.

The trains there are amazing, it really feels like you can get just about anywhere by train. In Spain, we have good connections between major cities but you can’t really use them to go on day-trips to places like the castles or the salt mines or whatever.

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It’s revenue share with the record labels. If those labels don’t pay the artists well that’s a different issue.

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It’s revenue share based on how many streams you get. Big record labels can probably negotiate a better share, but if you sign to one there’s no guarantee you will actually see that extra money.

Record labels ripping off music artists was incredibly common in the time before streaming, so I imagine it still is today.

Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says (www.reuters.com)

Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says::Alphabet’s Google violated a software developer’s patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday.

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But it’s trivial to write a slightly different implementation of something.

I think one really has to consider what the effect on innovation will be - you don’t want too many protections as that will stifle innovation as it prevents people from building upon the prior ideas, but equally you don’t want no protection at all as that will discourage innovation as R&D takes money, so if you can’t recoup the investment the money simply won’t get invested into R&D and the innovation won’t happen.

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Yeah, I think with software due to the low barrier to entry etc. it makes sense for it to be further towards the less protections end of the spectrum.

But still, if you’d paid a load of PhDs to come up with some really clever algorithm (think of like how Shazam had it’s music recognition algorithm long, long before modern ML) and then someone could just steal it well, it’d harm innovation and ultimately the tech industry and investment would go elsewhere and those clever PhD grads just wouldn’t find employment.

It’s a balance that depends on the properties of each industry, but I don’t think that no protections whatsoever is ever a good answer.

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Yeah, I agree on those examples. They should be able to patent their particular implementation - like maybe it took a lot of R&D to work out how to get server response times fast enough for one-click to work, or to get loading times fast enough to have a mini-game in the loading screen etc.

But they shouldn’t be able to patent the entire concept. That’s ridiculous.

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Yeah, but some things cost a lot of money to develop. The higher the cost of the R&D, the less likely it is to occur without some patent system. Although I agree that in programming specifically the Open Source model seems to work quite well - look at the Apache Foundation.

You could have a model where all research was done by a public body or something like the Apache Foundation, but this reduces innovation as it means there is less opportunity for some people to try something that may not be considered likely to be successful, as publicly funded research tends to focus on the safest path. For an example, look at how public nuclear fusion research is continuing on the traditional toroidal tokamak model with ITER compared with the more experimental designs being tested by private companies such as Helion, Focus Fusion, Tokamak Energy (they are using a high aspect-ratio 'spherical tokamak).

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Yeah, I guess it depends if the copyright is broad enough to offer protection while not becoming too broad and stopping innovation.

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Fundamental science is mostly publicly funded though and has little immediate practical application. The lack of funding in much of science also shows the problems this approach has.

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It’s not like the artists got most of the revenue from CD sales either. Artists being scammed by record labels was so common it was almost a meme.

And yeah they agree to revenue-share because it’s much better than the alternative of piracy and no money.

I think many of the people complaining don’t remember what is used to be like when you would pay £10 per album.

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Has it ever been good at mathematical/logical problems? It seems it’s good at text-based problems like imitating a writing style or even writing code, but if you ask it a logic puzzle like “if two cars take 3 hours to reach NYC, how long will 5 cars take?” it often fails completely.

Humans are capable of both understanding language and logical thought, I’m not sure if the latter will ever be easy for the LLMs to do, and perhaps older Symbolic approaches to AI might perform better in this space.

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Meanwhile the Americans drive around their massive trucks, live with constant central AC etc.

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They haven’t had anything interesting to watch since Squid Game. This Black Mirror season had like one good episode.

But sales are slumping
And no one will say why
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?

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I don’t organise it 🥲

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You can still buy the games outside of Game Pass.

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I don’t get the controversy over 30fps. Like I played RDR2 at 30fps and didn’t even notice it.

The gameplay itself is far more important and on that front Bethesda has been second to none. There isn’t even one single game that comes close to what they have achieved in The Elder Scrolls. Kingdom Come: Deliverance was close but much smaller in scope (which makes sense given the size of the studio).

I’ve played every single one of their games since Morrowind and while Fallout 76 was a flop and Fallout 4 was perhaps a bit disappointing, at least without DLC, almost all of their games have been incredible.

In Todd we trust.

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Why does it say this post was made 3 years ago?

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