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Comment Re:Gotta feed the AI Bubble (Score 1) 63

No, gotta produce cheap and reliable energy to lift people out of poverty. We still have a couple of billions to go.

I know, I know. Caring about the poor is so 1990s. Today we care about killing them via degrowth ideology, because they produce too much CO2. Turns out poor and people leading them disagree, and they are the ones who get to decide, not degrowthers.

Comment Forget CyberSec. What about disaster recovery? (Score 1) 12

If my entire production system were attacked and I lost all 500,000 nodes, network, and base storage, in 200 data centers in 100 countries, we could have operations back up in a few hours... days if we need to fly staff to remote sites.

I don't care how bad the hack is... Even if you have to debrick every electronic system one by one and even build and install firmware, I'd be embarrassed if it took more than a few days to get systems at least operational. If accounting and ordering is the problem, where is the backup?

If JLR can't handle this, do you really trust a car made by them?

Maybe it's better if they don't recover.

Comment Re:Something seems to be missing from the article (Score 1) 63

The one good thing with China's authoritarian state is they can drive rational national policy.

They know they need to rapidly industrialize, and they also know that global warming is real and will be a disaster for them.

So they're doing what you'd expect. Expanding power generation as quickly as possible in the short term with coal.

And in the long/medium term building and developing non-CO2 alternatives like Nuclear, solar, and batteries.

Comment Re:Been considering VR (Score 1) 8

If you want to play VR games but avoid Facebook, the main options are PC VR (Steam has a huge library of games) or PSVR2 (which can also be used with a PC with an optional adapter). Those are headsets that you hook up to a PC or console, not a self contained system like Quest. They can provide much better graphics than Quest, but the games are mostly the same.

Comfort is an issue with most VR headsets. They're big and heavy enough, you don't want to wear them for hours at a time. The main exception is Bigscreen Beyond, which has gotten it down to a remarkably small and light package. You pay extra for that, of course. I think it's about $1000 for the basic version, a little more for the version with eye tracking.

Comment Attributions vs. other kinds of errors (Score 1) 40

So of the 45% that had problems:
- 31% had attribution errors. Yeah, we know, AI is terrible at attributions.
- 20% had accuracy issues, including outdated information and hallucinated details. The proportion of these two types of errors is important. "Outdated information" is everywhere on the internet, AI or not. I wouldn't blame AI for that problem. Hallucinated details are a lot worse. What portion of the 20% was hallucinated? I'd say that something less than 20% having hallucinated details isn't as bad as I would have guessed.

Comment What kinds of questions? (Score 1) 40

The details matter.

Were they asking:
- What is today's most important news?
- What is news from my country?

Or were the questions more specific, like:
- What caused the AWS outage Monday?
- Whatever happened to the couple caught on the jumbotron at the Cold Play concert?

I would expect AI to do much better with the latter, than the former.

Comment Re:It shows monopolies have already formed (Score 1) 15

Or maybe, just maybe, the "AI" teams *were* actually bloated.
Maybe they were staffed with people who claimed they knew how to build AI products but couldn't actually deliver.
Or maybe they figured out that the stuff they were promising to accomplish, was mostly vapor.
Or maybe it was just politics in a big, bureaucratic organization.

Comment Re:bUt NuClEaR bAd (Score 1) 63

The Japanese would like everyone to thank them for taking the role of being the pinnacle test ground for [testing] nuclear technology on civilians.

For those not understanding this fact, this comment is meant to be satire. Obviously, nuclear isn't always so safe. 2 atomic bombs and a nuclear power plant.

Comment Bailout (Score 2) 12

"The issue was so severe that in September the UK government had to step in with financial support to the tune of £1.5 billion as JLR struggled to bring its systems back online."

Because parent Tata Motors https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... (a public company) can't afford to pay for its own screwups, so the cost is socialised to the British taxpayer.

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