Lugh

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[–] Lugh 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Never get your hopes up, that way you won't be disappointed, so the cynical saying goes. So I wasn't that surprised, that once again when Elon Musk promised tangible things, instead he gave us marketing aspirations. Including promising (once again) that FSD was 'just around the corner', something he has being saying for several years now. The robotaxi was little more than a concept car with similar promises that maybe/might happen at a certain date in the future.

Multiple Chinese firms will probably have succeeded with all of this before Tesla does.

[–] Lugh 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Although I'm using AI more and more for writing related tasks, I still find it constantly making simple rudimentary errors of logic. If it is advancing as this research paper claims, why are we still seeing so many of these types of hallucination errors?

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

I've corrected that. I assume their soon to be announcement about robo taxis will involve some upgrade to what can be considered level 4. Then again, it could just be some bullshit from the eternal bullshitter that is Elon Musk.

[–] Lugh 3 points 1 month ago

Quite apart from the issue of Google as a monopoly, i've really noticed a lot of their services going downhill in the last 18 months or so. Search gets steadily worse. But their AI voice transcription services, and grammar and spell checks, are nowhere near as good as free open source alternatives. Not only that, but bizarrely they've actually got worse than they used to be, where everywhere else in these fields it's constant improvement.

[–] Lugh 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm trying to keep an open mind about these kind of efforts, though I have suspicions about some of them being green washing. However if solar power becomes ultra cheap in the 2030s, and can power efforts like this, it is possible they may make a significant difference.

[–] Lugh 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Tesla ~~is at~~ may soon be at level 4 autonomous driving. It seems to me a taxi business could easily be made out of cars that can do that. Level 4 means they can drive fixed routes, that they know well and have mapped. When you think of a city and it's top 100 destinations, most taxi journeys are some combination of going between those. Going from the airport to downtown, and so on. Am I missing something? It seems if level 4 driving could handle those journeys, then perhaps it can handle most urban taxi journeys.

Even a taxi service that could just go to the top 50 destinations in a city from the airport, if rolled out across the world, could make serious money.

[–] Lugh 3 points 1 month ago

I should have been more specific, I was just referring to the storm surge flooded areas.

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

AR/VR always seems on the cusp of taking off, yet never seems to actually do so.

[–] Lugh 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I'm surprised there isn't more movement to just completely ban building in these areas. Getting everyone else to cover the cost of their predictable destruction seems very unfair.

[–] Lugh 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I am aware that they have a state insurer in Florida. They are going to need it. I can't see a single private insurance company wanting to touch anything to do with rebuilding in areas affected by this. They know climate change is getting worse, and this is only going to happen soon again.

[–] Lugh 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You circumvented their TOS, by using an alt account to evade a ban on a subreddit. That's why they banned you from Reddit itself.

[–] Lugh 1 points 1 month ago

There are a few other new heavy lift rockets in development around the world. Some people think Spacex's Starship will make them obsolete, but it doesn't seem like it will be ready anytime soon.

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