Germany, like several other European countries with proportional representation voting systems, frequently has its Green Party in power. It's interesting that laws around NIMBYism were changed to overrule objections that were blocking people from doing this.
The more decentralized power generation gets, the more it's an issue for the owners of the electricity grid. It will be interesting to see how Germany deals with this.
The crux of this idea is that if the speed of light severely limits two-way communication, why not get around that problem by sending the AI to them so they can talk to it, and not need back and forth communication to learn about us.
Needless to say, readers of 'The Three Body Problem' will have mostly negative thoughts on this idea, but to me it poses a question. What if there are other alien civilizations doing this already - how would we spot them?
For sure. Though I think by definition the word "lie" implies the intent. Anything accidental is just getting your facts wrong.
Many people will ask who gets to decide what a lie is? This mentions an "independent judicial process". Courts and juries generally have a good record of establishing truth, so it will be interesting to see how this works.
One of the little realized aspects of so much of 21st-century politics being lies - is how inefficient it makes life. Technology and change are accelerating. Yet every instance our political discourse wastes time countering lies, it's taking valuable time away from solving problems.
They are pretty grainy images, but its amazing to think we are able to look at another solar system 12 light years away. It's worth noting that space agencies around the world are ramping up efforts to get more detailed data about solar systems and their exoplanets within 100 light-years of Earth. Estimates vary, but that is thought to include 12,000 - 15,000 solar systems. Presumably, the exoplanet tally will be 100,000. If microbial life is widespread in the Universe, it seems a near-certainty it will have to be in some of these.
There is certainly progress to be made with multi-modality, but I wonder if they've already exhausted scaling LLMs based on data.
To think six months ago they were valuing OpenAI at $80 billion. I don't think so ...
Good riddance - don't forget your coat on the way out.
I really suspect this is how the plateau of productivity will look for machine learning.
It seems finding more data to scale up LLMs is a bottleneck too.
He perpetually over-promises. I'm more amazed they've let him lead America's space efforts for going back to the Moon. There's no way his stated timeline with StarShip will be achieved.
Many people will have heard of 'Havana Syndrome' - a medical condition reported primarily by U.S. diplomatic, intelligence, and military officials stationed in overseas locations. Most of the affected individuals reported an acute onset of symptoms associated with a perceived localized loud sound, followed by chronic symptoms that lasted for months, such as balance and cognitive problems, insomnia, and headaches. Some people disputed if 'Havana Syndrome' was real. However here we see the perfect mechanism for making something similar happen.
There's probably upsides to this. Medicines like Ozempic seem to profoundly change human behavior for positive outcomes. This could have the same potential.
There's a huge amount of humanoid robots in development around the world. Here's a list I compiled from another post (and I probably missed several).
LimX Dynamics
1X's NEO
Astribot S1
Tesla's Optimus
Agility Robotics
Xiaomi's CyberOne
Apptronik Apollo
Ubtech's Walker S
Figure's Figure 1
Fourier Intelligence's GR-1
Sanctuary's Phoenix
Unitree Robotics' H1
XPENG's PX5