PJones2000

Ukrainian and Russian killer robots clashed without humans being present.

Has the future arrived? Robots do the fighting and the side with the best and most numerous robots wins.

"Customer spent an hour chatting with it, talked it into showing how good it was at maths and percentages, diverted the conversation to percentage discounts off a theoretical order, then acted impressed by it.

The chatbot then generated him a completely fake discount code and an offer for 25% off, later rising to 80% off as it tried to impress him."

"The health burden from phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides and Pfas “forever chemicals” amounts to up to $2.2tn a year – roughly as much as the profits of the world’s 100 largest publicly listed companies."

That's quite a statement. With medicines, regulations are really strict about allowing new products to market (I've heard the expression "under the FDA's jackboot") but when it comes to the food industry the regulations seem to be far too lax.

24 hours on a 4070. Seems quite doable. https://github.com/sapientinc/HRM

Would any of these be problematic for you? The US withdrawing from NATO, behaving in an adversarial way to your home country/Europe? Allying with Russia over Europe?

That wouldn't be ideal for FAANGs, but good for Europe.

This seems promising, I'll be trying this out. Thank you for the pointer.

Possibly. We've tried at monthly intervals and every time, no machine available. The message we're getting from this is don't built on AWS.

As a UK AI/biotech startup, we've been trying to get access to compute here in the UK but have found nothing (suggestions welcome).

We are getting free credits from US-based cloud companies but noticed they ask a lot of questions about our business model, technology and customers. That may be the objective of the free credits.

It makes me wonder if re-incorporating elsewhere would be beneficial.

No, credits weren't tied to a region but even switching to a few other regions we couldn't get hold of machines. We asked if there was a way to search across all regions so we could switch to where the machines were located. No reply. No A100s or H100s at all. We were just looking for more than 24GB VRAM which is not a big ask. I don't understand the AWS credits; however I noticed they asked a lot of questions about our business model, technology and customers. Draw from that what you will.

We got AWS credits too, but when we wanted to do some serious ML there were never any machines available. Our contact person at AWS just stopped replying to emails when we raised this. While one shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, it was just a waste of time and we had more success elsewhere.

The report behind the article. https://aspi.org.au/report/critical-technology-tracker

They have collected data on flow of talent and research contributions for 44 different technologies. https://techtracker.aspi.org.au

I find their conclusions (if true) quite alarming: "Western democracies are losing the global technological competition, including the race for scientific and research breakthroughs, and the ability to retain global talent—crucial ingredients that underpin the development and control of the world’s most important technologies, including those that don’t yet exist."

@HN: Does China dominate research in your field?