Lugh

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[–] Lugh 2 points 9 hours ago

They are also capable of making decent cars they sell for as cheap ast $10-15,000.

[–] Lugh 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also, current LLMs are great at modelling best practices.

Most disease diagnosis, even rare diseases, follows predictable paths. Human doctors would have to have superhuman memories to do as well.

What's more exciting to me is that this knowledge is now free. Free as in beer.

People talk of UBI, but what about universal services that cost nothing?

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The Post-AGI world (www.forwardfuture.ai)
submitted 1 day ago by Lugh to c/futurology
 

This is the Mengxi Blue Ocean Photovoltaic Power Station, now China’s largest single-capacity solar power plant. Worth noting is that it's built in the Gobi Desert, an area twice the size of Ukraine. So there's room for plenty more.

Without grid storage, this is priced at about 10% of the cost of new nuclear projects.

[–] Lugh 11 points 5 days ago

It's a no from me. I suspect as the US gets more deregulated for AI, it will be more no's from people around the world.

[–] Lugh 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Now that scaling is hitting a wall, it will be interesting to see what methods like this continue AI's progress.

[–] Lugh 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The company's website says they are using generative AI too.

They are using it to generate virtual environments to train the self-driving AI. Waymo is using generative AI to do the same.

[–] Lugh 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This will be a great way to channel vast sums of money from the American taxpayer to rich elites, for which the taxpayer will see little or nothing in return. Something the US public are about to see a lot more of.

[–] Lugh 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While people usually focus on carbon neutrality, I often think decentralization is renewables' most underappreciated aspect. Everything it touches can happen at the home and community level. The Haber-Bosch process is the epitome of the 20th century large scale heavy industry model. Now here is a solution replacing it at the level of individual farms.

I suspect much of robotics will be decentralized too, and with that, they may decentralize automated manufacturing. In a few decades, it may seem quaint that people shipped so many things halfway around the world.

[–] Lugh 13 points 1 week ago

Now that the new US administration is about to gut AI regulations, this idea gets even worse.

[–] Lugh -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

He said it again a few days ago on a Reddit AMA.

Perhaps the most interesting comment from Altman was about the future of AGI - artificial general intelligence. Seen by many as the ‘real’ AI, this is an artificial intelligence model that could rival or even exceed human intelligence. Altman has previously declared that we could have AGI within "a few thousand days".

When asked by a Reddit user whether AGI is achievable with known hardware or it will take something entirely different, Altman replied: “We believe it is achievable with current hardware.”

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-5-wont-be-coming-in-2025-according-to-sam-altman-but-superintelligence-is-achievable-with-todays-hardware

[–] Lugh 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why are they making it so needlessly complicated? They can just use existing highways and vehicles with Level 4 self-driving. They don't need new separate roads.

That said, this points to the future. Even if true Level 5 self-driving is several years off, there is plenty Level 4 can do now. That includes all cargo driving on highways. I doubt most trucker jobs have long to go. Some will say they are needed for last-mile delivery. Some companies are soon going to figure out a profitable system for having human drivers locally for that, but self-driving vehicles for the long stints on highways.

[–] Lugh 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Will we see a day when manually driving a car is as illegal and socially unacceptable as driving drunk or without a seatbelt? I'd guess so. Tech like this will become standardized along the way to full Level 5 self-driving.

There's a whole demographic of people aged 80+ who face restrictions on their driving as they age further. I would expect Volkswagen and others to be marketing car software along these lines tailored to their needs and problems.

[–] Lugh 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would people be eager to have a place like them joining the fedi?

If BlueSky were federated it would mean you could move to another server and keep the followers you built there. All the Big Tech offerings keep you locked in, and at risk of losing the work you put in at their whim.

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