Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
Hold on to your Robotaxi butts! SF just expanded the robotaxi service to all across the city 24/7 for GM’s Cruise and Google Spin off Waymo’s autonomous vehicles. Both have been operating in limited fashion for a year or so now, mostly out in the sunset, but now we get to see what happens when they wander downtown.
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
Listen. Just because Silicon Valley tech bros were delivered by stork and spawn in test tubes, doesn't mean normal humans stop having sex anytime or anywhere.
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In the last few months I've had a couple experiences with completely empty Waymos that were downright humanish, in one the magic robot was the only one at the intersection and just started to move as I stepped out into the crosswalk across from it while two other cars pulled up to the multi way stop at the same time. It quickly stopped, recalculated, waited its turn and then went as soon as it could. In another a person was standing partly in the road waiting for the bus, the robot slowed down as if to let them cross, then realized they weren't crossing and lightly sped up while giving the person some room as it drove by. It's surreal to see what feels like such fluid changes to the situation while looking at four empty seats.
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
GPT based WritableAI app gives students advice and helps teachers score papers, training students to write in ways the chatbot likes. It also claims it can detect when a chatbot might have been used to write the paper.
On one hand this seems like one of those dead internet loops, on the other if AI videos have taught me anything it's that we should be just as worried the AI will recognize fresh students as mines for novel content to be assimilated before breaking them.
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
The way these systems are normally built, the AI isn't capable of learning from the things it's run against, because they instantiate an AI, run it against a thing, get a result, and drop it. There's no training/reinforcement on the production data.
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Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
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The singularity is testing out ways for humans to eliminate humans
Unfortunately, the AI used previous Israeli bombing targets as the training data set, so it targeted almost exclusively schools, hospitals, and mosques.
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
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