Absolute nonsense #ESA plans for space generated solar power. IIRC, one of the studies was supposed to be delivered two years ago.
Such huge structures in space will be highly vulnerable to space debris or malicious attacks, to name just two apparently unsolvable security problems. It'll be interesting to see what the numbers say, when comparing the total cost for such a monstrosity with similar plans for solar power generation on the surface of the Earth.
“For Services provided on Mars, or in transit to Mars via Starship or other spacecraft, the parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities,” says SpaceX’s satellite Internet Starlink company, in its terms of service."
The statement is a lie; it's governed by an appropriate nation, in accordance with the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, but #SpaceKaren wants no laws.
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Don't call it Artificial "Intelligence" if it's just statistical pattern matching. Intelligence has a lot more to it than just that.
Here is a good article about wildlife and technology, reduced to #AI#hype and missing its central point by sprinkling AI everywhere, and even polluting its title with AI nonsense. It makes a good science editor appear cheap and shallow.
A better title could be:
"Railroad tracks help monitor and identify wildlife with modern technology".
Cyber..uck?!
It seems that it's not only the "unbreakable" windows that were a lie 😀, the whole thing is all hat and no cattle, a toy that ... looks tough 🤣
Read about and watch the misery of driving a #Tesla#Cybertrack off road. In a nutshell:
"you don't need to spend $80+ thousand to go out on the trails and have some fun", that is, if you find it fun to fail and have your car fall apart. 😂
These days, "several minutes" of weightlessness in a suborbital flight as a tourist, makes you an "astronaut". Multiply that by 60, and it already sounds a lot better: "several hundred seconds of weightlessness"!
Being part of a publicity stunt means those "astronauts" have to make a few statements to the press, like "space is really becoming more accessible", whether they or anybody else believes that.
Posts with [hashtag] aiart will no longer appear in my feed. Hope this will help avoid the mild rage it causes me. I’m definitely still concerned for the reasons listed in my pinned post. #ai#bullshit#hype
"Most firms that have announced business plans to launch rockets to the Moon [...] have been doing so with the intent of selling services or lunar water to NASA or other parties fulfilling government contracts. Put another way, there has been no wealth creation, and ultimately, NASA is the customer."
Last November we had the opportunity to attend an exclusive twenty-minute screening of ‘Dune: Part II’, the highly anticipated second installment of the monumental adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic that Denis Villeneuve is carrying out. Of course, it is early to give an opinion, but we can assure that...
Sam Altman wants to maintain control of OpenAI and its popular A.I. chatbot technology and therefore won’t take the company public anytime soon because it would limit his freedom to make decisions, Bloomberg reported.
“When we develop superintelligence, we’re likely to make some decisions that public market investors would view very strangely,” Altman said at an event in Abu Dhabi.
Many users pay for LLM subscriptions. But the margins are small, because what companies can charge for these services is barely above the cost of running them. There is also a lot of competition between different providers. The amount of investment is just completely disproportionate; it is a thousand times too high.
Why do you think that is?
There is just a ton of hype and outlandish expectations. Newspapers are running headlines like, «all jobs will be replaced soon» – «The 2028 U.S. elections will no longer be run by humans.» There is talk of artificial general intelligence. But these LLMs are more similar to large databases.
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) refers to a program that could solve all conceivable tasks. Do you doubt that LLMs are a step in this direction?
I don't believe that LLMs bring us any closer to human-like or general intelligence. These exaggerated expectations are also due to prominent studies which claimed that AI-models performed better than humans in law and math exams. We now know that language models simply memorized the right answers." https://www.nzz.ch/english/google-researcher-says-ai-hype-is-skewing-investment-ld.1825122
#AI#GenerativeAI#Hype#BigTech#SiliconValley: "For the moment, it is only the cloud computing providers and chip manufacturers that are really minting money in the generative AI boom. Doubtless, Marcus will also be proved right that much of the corporate money thrown at the technology will be wasted and most start-ups will fail. But who knows what new stuff will be invented and endure? That is why God invented bubbles."
AI have many use, but it is definitely not for occupying our phone storage and does nothing useful. My phone have been stuffed by meta chatbot, and I don’t want another chatbot in my phone that have no real application.
#AI#GenerativeAI#LLMs#Hype#AIPolicy#UK: “1. Large language models contain foundational flaws which mean they are unable to live up to the hype and make it likely that the current bubble will burst. They will continue to require vast amounts of invisibilised labour to produce, but will not result in any form of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
The greatest risk is that large language models act as a form of ‘shock doctrine’, where the sense of world-changing urgency that accompanies them is used to transform social systems without democratic debate.
The AI White Paper promotes populist narratives about AI adoption that align with the hype around large language models while offering a fairly thin evidence base. Ongoing developments in UK policy, such as the upcoming summit, cite notions of existential threat while ignoring the more mundane risks of social and environmental harms.
The narrative around open source AI is a complete red herring. The way ‘open’ can be applied to large language models doesn’t level the playing field, make the models more secure or challenge the centralisation of control.
UK regulators are not well placed to address the issues raised by large language models because these systems operate across sectors and technical, economic and social registers while establishing unpredictable feedback loops between them. Meanwhile the AI industry is already engaged in significant lobbying at the EU which has proven sufficient to dissolve regulatory red lines.
Additional options for regulation draw on frameworks like post-normal science to mandate an extended peer community and the inclusion of previously marginalised perspectives. This more grounded approach has a better chance of resulting in AI that is more socially productive, where regulators are supported by distributed and adaptive ‘councils on AI’”
«VC's require hype to get a return on investment because they need an IPO or an acquisition […] You don't get rich by the technology working, you get rich by people believing it works long enough that one of those two things gets you some money.»
'1. Who will benefit?
2. Who will bear the costs?
3. What will the technology mean for future generations?
4. What will be the implications not just for economies and international security, but also for our sense of what it means to be human?
5. Is the technology reversible?
6. What limits should be imposed on its application?'
#AI#Influencers#InfluencerMarketing#Hype: "Like the threat behind crypto’s “have fun staying poor” slogan, AI needs the rest of us to believe in its unstoppable ascendancy because that belief is basically all it has. AI products aren’t about whether anyone wants or needs AI products. They’re about how people could want or need those products, eventually, if everyone stays the course and also keeps pumping money into AI companies. You can call a product bad as long as you immediately point out that obviously it’s going to become good (Brownlee even nods to this in his Humane review, saying that the pin is “the new worst product I’ve ever reviewed in its current state”), because AI products are less products and more promotional tools for the future, for technological advancement, for whatever other big concepts Silicon Valley goons trot out to throw a smokescreen over the barely-functional, largely useless junk they need us to believe is inevitable." https://aftermath.site/humane-ai-marques-brownlee
He puts into clear terms what had previously been an unarticulated, creeping suspicion I had about #GenAI. Clearly there are many angles from which to come at what's going on with #AI#hype , but I appreciate this one quite a bit.
“If you’re looking to understand the philosophy that underpins Silicon Valley’s latest gold rush, look no further than #OpenAI’s #ScarlettJohansson debacle”
We have seen 20 minutes of 'Dune II' with Villeneuve and we have good news: the expectation is more than justified (www.ruetir.com)
Last November we had the opportunity to attend an exclusive twenty-minute screening of ‘Dune: Part II’, the highly anticipated second installment of the monumental adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic that Denis Villeneuve is carrying out. Of course, it is early to give an opinion, but we can assure that...