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The point is because they are all identical they should not be compared to the "average," a pool of good and bad drivers but rather good drivers alone. Unless you mandate "no more humans on the road" is is not the speed-daemons and lane-cutters that will choose automated cars.
Each human is different so we treat them as separate entities. Machines, by design are cookie-cutter copies. If one Waymo did something horribly stupid, then all Waymos would have done that exact same thing in that situation.
I would take Anthropics "Theoretical limits of A.i" sales brochure, with a very large grain of salt.
It could also be that saying "wondering the desert" sounds better to a farming population then "they lived as nomads."
The problem is that they are building these wherever they can without any consideration for how they are affecting the communities. The noise concerns are common because they build them in areas without enough electric capacity. The water concerns are real, not because of some paper or because the water usage is incredibly high but again because they built them in locations that don't have enough of that resource. The tax subsidies were negotiated in bad-faith, essentially lying about the number of permanent high-paying jobs they bring.
Of course, that's money that is not going to go to slowing global warming.
Even rural localities in blood-red states are opposing datacenters. Noise, water electricity usage coupled with few permanent jobs and little tax-income due to subsidies have made them unpalatable to many.
Humans are more likely to make small mistakes but the internal consistency check is pretty good at catching large errors. On top of that, fudging numbers to make everything add up is not something humans do (not unintentionally at least)
The problem with LLM's is that they could work correctly for months and years and then do something egregious which will will go unnoticed because of the misplaced trust one develops on a system that "just seems to work." Get flagged for an expensive audit and there go all the savings and then some.
That's exactly what the LLM seems to have done as well. The problem is that we want and even expect the A.I to be truthful.
I don't know if it's "birth control" but it will definitely let you know that "Plan B" is not considered "pregnancy-termination" it is still legal in all States.
A human won't respond with "Neuron 10-100 of the frontal cortex" (jokes aside) with deceptively convincing confidence.
Problem is, all the old metrics are now obsolete and nobody knows how to measure productivity anymore.
Vim makes some slow and incredibly tedious tasks, fast and efficient. Having said that, all those key-presses to switch modes do add up.
That's amazing. What's even more incredible is that somehow you managed to do a real code review and testing in that time-frame.
I't has been very good as suppressing wages.
They already are, It has become a real problem in Reddit. Especially with the latest in pseudo-science crap like peptides.
We don't know what thinking is but pattern matching is definitely a big part of it. That's why people see Jesus on a piece of burnt toast.
DNScryptProxy maintains a extensive list of public DNS servers. It also lists if if they do Dnssec, filetering, logging.
https://download.dnscrypt.info/dnscrypt-resolvers/v3/public-...
Open source, Open weights, these are core business decisions.
It's just a smart business decision that allows their models to compete and gain market-share against much pricier private models. No philanthropy there.
I was talking about its economic system, not politics.
Sparta is not exactly known as the pinnacle of civilization. As for the rest of your comment, you make some good points.
Sparta is known for little other than their military prowess, which was a necessity for managing their much larger slave population.
Athens had a rather strange system of slavery. The majority of slaves, owned by State, earned wages and worked and lived unattended. It was much more similar to indentured-servitude.
Slavery was legal in most society's 2 millennia ago but most society's were not built to be depended on slavery the way it was in Sparta, Rome and the American South.
Brewing alcohol was known to hunter-gatherers. Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities). Medicine/education, that's the Greeks.
Don't glorify Rome too much. It was a slavery based society that progressed sciences, technology and civilization little from what they inherited from the Mesopotamian's/Greeks. Heck written Latin didn't even have punctuation marks, not even spaces. That's because it was only used by slave scribes. The nobility that could write, did so in Greek.
Social Security is the number 1 line item accounting for over 22% of the federal budget.
China, Canada, Sweden and others, are not stupid. We really don't understand how it is that all the experts say that Nuclear needs to be parts of the equation but all of you "online activist" keep insisting that, they are just idiots and industry shills. It is the same playbook the anti-vaxers use.
8Gb laptops are about the only tech still selling. Exec's better think long and hard about that.