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>The IPCC, NASA, NOAA, EPA, and Engelbeen, Hannon, and Burton (2024) say fossil-fuel combustion caused essentially all of the rise.

So, every scientist and agency on earth says it was fossil fuels.

A random AI-generated tweet says it wasn't.

I wonder which one is worth listening to.

Re: on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:21AM (#50338038)
Paywalled - anybody got a link?
That's what the comment section is for!
Re:Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:56PM (#50292215)
Cloud computing is really a money printer right now. Amazon makes more from AWS than from their retail business, it's nearly 2/3rds of their profit.
Re:Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:34AM (#50260897)
The only poll that matters is the one on election day.
Re:CSS-Tricks has a new owner on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:00PM (#50247083)
You can just make a mockup in whatever tool you want, and pour your 'art' and 'soul' into that.

Then hand it to the LLM and it'll make CSS to match.

Re:A Mathematician Reads the AI Future on Sunday October 25, 2026 @02:48PM (#50234778)
>Many of this the AI can never imagine and won't reach by itself without human assist.

Are you sure about that? It looks like artificial neural networks can, in principle, do anything biological neural networks can do.

I think it's more likely the opposite: there are steps we could never reach without computer assist.

> I used Inception v3 pretrained on everyday photographs and then fine-tuned all layers on 68,011 dermoscopic and clinical images from the ISIC Archive on a single H100 GPU.

>These 200 test lesions, and every other photograph of the same lesion or patient, were removed from its data (including the validation set) before training, so it had never seen them, and they were not used to choose the model or set its threshold.

This is just benchmaxxing. A benchmaxxed model will always beat an unbenchmaxxed model, but it will be brittle.

You can always beat a specific dataset with a small model by finetuning on a train/test split. But it doesn't generalize well to 'wild' images, because they are out-of-domain.

Re:AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:16PM (#50200405)
If AI didn't exist, he'd find some other excuse to do the exact same thing.

The real reason for this is that Elon Musk is a conservative megadonor, while academics are vocally opposed to Trump. He takes from his enemies and gives to his friends; that's how he operates.

Re:AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:46PM (#50200097)
I think this is completely unrelated.

This administration thinks science is 'woke' because it says things that disagree with him. Many of these funding cuts were explicitly politically motivated, e.g. they specifically targeted research about diversity, gender, or vaccines.

It's not about AI, it's about removing funding from liberal causes and giving it to conservative causes.

Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:07PM (#50198180)
We are not close to done building things, and the existing infrastructure is not enough.

We need both new infrastructure (like high-speed rail and apartment blocks) and new types of infrastructure (like datacenters).

Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:55PM (#50198015)
>A datacentre is not valuable to anyone other than the owner.

Ah, that is a misunderstanding of economics. It's valuable to everyone who uses AI; the owner captures only part of the value. It's just like a how a factory is valuable to everyone who buys their products.

Trees are cool, but we need infrastructure and fields and cities and many other things too. We're going to have to cut down some trees to make space for them.

Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:25PM (#50197571)
Because no one did anything illegal, or even unethical.

And they're doing something valuable to society by developing undeveloped land.

Re:Claude Duet on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:32PM (#50186320)
Well, it is the biggest trend in tech right now.

Someday there will be other trends, but it's currently AI's turn.

Re:Starcraft: Ashfall on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:29PM (#50158310)
Law firms are cautious about AI tools, they got burned a couple years ago by hallucinated citations.

Citing made-up cases sure looks like lying to the court, which is a punishable offense. Lawyers have been sanctioned, fined, and in one case received a 30-day license suspension.

Re:CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for science on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:14PM (#50155051)
I think there is a large group of commenters who actually just hate silicon valley tech companies, and they're fine with AI as long as it comes from someone else.
It's sure the best time to be a cynical internet commenter, though! The field is having a renaissance not seen since early-2000s slashdot.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:12PM (#50146027)
>quickly rise to the leading cause of death under 30 if widely deployed.

Wait, aren't human-driven cars already the leading cause of death under 30?

Re:Siri is so bad at everything on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:58AM (#50105577)
Yeah but then you're using Grok.
Re:Siri is so bad at everything on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:06AM (#50104774)
The only voice assistant that has impressed me recently is the new ChatGPT Voice Mode with background reasoning. It's miles ahead of the other assistants.

The only downside is that it lacks the OS integration of Gemini or Siri. I've been trying to figure out a way to trigger it with the button on my pixel earbuds, but no success - seems it only works with Gemini.

Pets.com failed, therefore the internet is doomed. No one will ever make a successful business out of it.
Re:Why are all these data companies buying internal data? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @11:31AM (#50089235)
I didn't say it does make it better. But it does answer the question in the title.
Re:Why are all these data companies buying internal data? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @11:27AM (#50089129)
To train AI models on it? It's right in the headline.
Altman didn't say that. In March 2021, he did make some predictions, but they were much vaguer and farther out:

> In the next decade, they will do assembly-line work and maybe even become companions. And in the decades after that, they will do almost everything, including making new scientific discoveries that will expand our concept of “everything.”

https://moores.samaltman.com/

By reading this post you have used your brain to process information, thereby disproving his own point.
Scrolling on mobile is very slow, even with the effects turned off.
Re:Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:36PM (#50023035)
We're talking about bunker-busters - the MOAB is not a bunker buster. It's an airburst weapon designed to clear out large open spaces, and isn't effective against hardened bunkers.

No reasonable amount of quadcopters could match a bunker-buster. Surface explosions are not very effective against buried targets.

The weight and density of the bunker-buster is extremely important to its operation. When dropped from a high altitude, it breaks into the bunker with sheer kinetic force, and then explodes once inside.

Re:Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:16AM (#50021720)
These are a lot more expensive and difficult to deploy. They weigh several tons. You can't just strap one to a $200 quadcopter and fly it over.
Re:Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:14AM (#50021692)
Obviously your biggest customers would be in active warzones, or areas worried about soon becoming warzones.

Drone attacks on US soil are (hopefully!) not happening anytime soon.

Re:Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:36AM (#50021132)
Unironically could be a legit business model.

Not just for datacenters either - warehouses, refineries, power stations, you could sell to anybody with a building full of expensive stuff.

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