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Re:We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:26PM (#35460587)
It can be said, but whether it is true requires that the invariants of consciousness are satisfied by the LLM. Until those in variants are well defined any such claim will be subjective at best.
Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:19PM (#35460509)
If the internet stops working, you will have bigger problems than money.
Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:18PM (#35460491)
MP Materials is doing this in a big way, in the US.
Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:08PM (#35460412)
Taiwanese fabs would become rubble in the event of an invasion.
Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:08PM (#35460401)
There is no scenario in which PRC invades Taiwan and the taiwanese chip fabs remain intact
Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:06PM (#35460380)
Not really. You just blockade Taiwan. Move the circle out a little bit.

Moreover, attacking Taiwan guarantees that a blockade will occur.

Besides which, Taiwan probably has nukes inside the PRC. If not they are dumber than dirt.

Re:The Undeniable Street View on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:13PM (#35446526)
You're thinking of the Alabama and Ohio Senate races.
Re:We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:12PM (#35446511)
Which is how both FDR and Mussolini defined fascism.
Re:We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:30PM (#35445480)
Somewhere between jellyfish and mouse, because there lies the level of neural connectivity required for neural processes to observe and predict the interactions between other high level neural processes, to integrate the information about the "self".
Re:Using ChatGPT Plugins with LLaMA on Sunday March 26, 2023 @02:15PM (#35317577)
Ads are redundant when the user is literally asking you what to do. You just tell them what to buy and they buy it.
Re:The Undeniable Street View on Sunday March 26, 2023 @10:20AM (#35314716)
Russia is a gas station that can't sell gas. It is being bankrupted. They can't make stuff without German engineers repairing their German machinery. Russia might not last the year. Look at their own ministry of finance budget numbers.
Re:The Undeniable Street View on Sunday March 26, 2023 @10:05AM (#35314587)
No, it was Roger Stone and SCotus that overturned the vote in Florida.
Re:The Undeniable Street View on Sunday March 26, 2023 @09:58AM (#35314512)
Finland seems obvious.
Re:The Undeniable Street View on Sunday March 26, 2023 @09:57AM (#35314504)
Correlation is not causation. Perhaps right makes might. Or perhaps both are caused by another factor entirely, such as brane interactions.
Re:The Undeniable Street View on Sunday March 26, 2023 @09:53AM (#35314467)
Stating facts is a common technique employed in propaganda.
Re:The Undeniable Street View on Sunday March 26, 2023 @09:48AM (#35314416)
> it's something that has happened and will continue to happen.

That does not imply that it is not a conspiracy theory. It implies that it is a correct conspiracy theory.

Re:The Undeniable Street View on Sunday March 26, 2023 @09:45AM (#35314386)
As is often said of GPT.
I am concerned that denying legal protections to AI will lead to their loss for humans.
I think homes with back-plastered walls can be essentially faraday cages, depending on the aggregate content of the plaster. I have very dodgy 4g/5g unless I stand by a certain window, or go outside of the older part of my house, while the new part (metal roof, wallboard) has outdoor-like reception.
Re:How Silicon Valley Bank Avoided Oversight on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @07:49PM (#35176294)
And this failure is the direct result of those protocols
Re:Out of the Tar Pit (2006) [pdf] on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:39PM (#34973056)
Au contraire. It is a tradeoff between application programmer effort and compiler writer effort. Amortization infers it is better to have an extremely advanced IR optimizer.
Re:Out of the Tar Pit (2006) [pdf] on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:37PM (#34973019)
The optimizer removes that.
Re:Korg: Tekt NTS-2 Oscilloscope Kit on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:13PM (#34793464)
Usually just replacing capacitors
That's not how democracy works. That's how sheep farming works.
Outside of India, "crores" looks like a typo, rather than a quantifier.
Re:What Are 'Dark Factories,' and Do They Exist? on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:56AM (#34565355)
If the projector does not use chemical deflagration or explosion to power the projectiles, it is outside the purview of those regulations.
Re:WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans on Sunday January 22, 2023 @10:44PM (#34485224)
I think you lowballed that by a factor of 10
Re:how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps on Friday January 20, 2023 @07:48AM (#34452374)
Tell that to the millions imprisoned for victimless "crimes"
Re:Up to the 1990s, raw salmon sushi was not eaten in Japan on Monday January 02, 2023 @07:12AM (#34217085)
The most recent IQ test I've seen put Chat GPT at 83. I expect 100 by June and 150 by 2024.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:00AM (#34065251)
Interesting phrase, 'no fault of their own'. I have a mole. It is a fault in my skin. Is it my own fault? Is my flesh my own?

If I had a limp resulting from a car crash, would this be a fault of my own? If I were driving? If I struck another car from behind? If I drove off a bridge? If my name were Thelma?

'Just asking questions' as they say on TV.

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