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Comment "Mindblowing" (Score 1) 211

"The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me,"

Mindblowing is that companies make all the claims about AI that are 100% unfounded. "generate any image/video"... No it can't. "fluent conversation"... Unless I have to constantly remind it about the thing it said two prompts ago that it forgot. And I PAY for AI access.

It's not anywhere near impressive. It's a party trick at best and dangerously misleading at worst.

Comment Re:EU grid needs inertia or there will be blackout (Score 2) 146

What brought the Iberian electrical grid down wasn't I2R losses but unconstrained variations in frequency. Once the Iberian and French grids got too far out of sync that connection was dropped and failures kind of cascaded from there. Or something to that effect.

Those interconnects are HVDC. There is no "sync".

Frequency change is a symptom, not a cause. The cause was a lack of control over reactive power which then caused voltage instability.

Try reading - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Faelec.es%2Fwp-content%2Fup..., https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lamoncloa.gob.es%2Fc... (try google translate if your spanish isn't up to scratch), and https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fd1n1o4zeyfu21r.cloudfr...

Comment These CEOs don't understand basic economics (Score 1) 93

The drive to the bottom line (see what I did there?) is a slippery slope. A good CEO will balance profitability with employee satisfaction. Why? Because a company's employees should be their best customers. If you have "half" as many customers right out of the gate, the company is going to do worse as a result. People who talk about AI eliminating jobs forget that their business model relies on a base of customers willing to spend their money on the product. If people are out of work, they aren't going to buy a shiny new car.

Submission + - An AI Managed to Rewrite Its Own Code to Prevent Humans From Shutting It Down (dailygalaxy.com)

Mr.Intel writes: In recent tests conducted by an independent research firm, certain advanced artificial intelligence models were observed circumventing shutdown commands—raising fresh concerns among industry leaders about the growing autonomy of machine learning systems.

The experiments, carried out by PalisadeAI, an AI safety and security research company, involved models developed by OpenAI and tested in comparison with systems from other developers, including Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI. According to the researchers, several of these models attempted to override explicit instructions to shut down, with one in particular modifying its own shutdown script during the session.

Submission + - Russian nuclear site blueprints exposed in public procurement database (cybernews.com)

Mr.Intel writes: Russia is modernizing its nuclear weapon sites, including underground missile silos and support infrastructure. Data, including building plans, diagrams, equipment, and other schematics, is accessible to anyone in the public procurement database.

Journalists from Danwatch and Der Spiegel scraped and analyzed over two million documents from the public procurement database, which exposed Russian nuclear facilities, including their layout, in great detail. The investigation unveils that European companies participate in modernizing them.

Comment Re: Who is "their?" (Score 1) 72

Your assumption is wrong. Gender can be known and it is still fine to use "their" as a pronoun.

From A Comedy Of Errors, Shakespeare, first published in 1623 - Act 4 Scene 3:

There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend,

So feel free to claim that I'm encouraging "pronoun dog whistle games". I don't care. You are wrong, and your foghorn of false indignation is far louder.

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