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Comment Re:I've been mocked for saying it for years (Score 1) 243

> Not sure how well geofences work in a GNSS denied environment.

If you shield your GPS antenna to only see signals from above, it will make spoofing rather difficult, unless the spoofer can afford constant aerial missions in just the right places.
If you want to get really fancy, use phased-array antennas that can "aim" at the known satellites and ignore other sources.

Comment 1000 is not 1 million (Score 1) 18

> processing speeds in the petahertz range — over 1,000 times faster than modern computer chips

I'm not aware of any computer chips that operate in the terahertz range.

In the first line, it mentions a factor of 1 million, which makes sense, since current chips operate in the gigahertz range.

Comment Re:Since when do we care? (Score 3, Insightful) 283

First off, this isn't some academic forum where we back up every single claim with evidence.

Second, I'm a progressive liberal and happen to agree with his statement, which wasn't presented in an overtly political manner. Facts don't have a political preference. There certainly are preferential admissions and hiring for women. I've seen them repeatedly over my time in school and over my 20 year career in tech. I've been told repeatedly that "everything men can do women can do better." That statement wasn't created in this thread.

Comment Re:Uncertainty (Score 1) 282

Trump is gutting the EPA and other agencies that would enforce our environmental law. Business has nothing to fear. IF Trumps allows a legitimate election AND a Democrat ever wins the presidency again, they're going to first need to rebuild the entire government and the entire economy before enforcing any laws against businesses, let alone enforcing the environmental laws.

Comment Re:I am legitimately terrified (Score 3, Insightful) 85

Maybe it'll start working without errors aka "hallucinations." The problem is that the technology is fundamentally disconnected from reality. It reads the writing that we've bothered to put online. But, AI has no means of independently verifying that writing. It has no independent means of verifying the truth or falsehood of a section of text. I don't see a good means for it to get that data without first changing the way in which it interacts with the real world.

Comment Re:no i wont. (Score 1) 36

nope, not gonna happen.

Exactly this. The folks using AI outsource their thinking to a machine. The more they use AI, the less thinking they perform for themselves. And, the more of their own skills they lose. I can still do my job without AI. I can perform just as well as you because you're using AI as a crutch to make up for your own inadequacies. You'll become more dependent on AI over time. I'll continue to perform without it.

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