@coreyjrowe It really is unsustainable. Heading to the airport tonight and I already know what to expect.
Transit is one of the top things holding this city and region back - and it is mind-boggling in the face of everyone wondering why the Metro #Detroit region and the State of #Michigan struggles on the population front.
It is interesting watching #Twitter (from afar) sheepishly backtrack on the #LK99 hype.
There were three, maybe four ringleaders as far as I could tell - which included some that are competent in science and physics that should have known better.
But whipping up useless hype gets people paid by Twitter at the moment.
It all really underscores my position on how unsuitable Twitter is for actual science and public education - and that was fairly true even in the pre-#Musk Twitter Era.
Some (perhaps even many) have now argued that the #LK99 hype was, in fact, good for science.
Sure, if the public was left with an understanding of actual scientific foundations so that, possibly, the next conversations could be more productive and informed.
A missed opportunity, if there ever was one.
But, crucially, one that us in former “System Safety Twitter” community know all too well - and there, the #Twitter hype has killed people.
“I think we will get the hallucination problem to a much, much better place,” Altman said. “I think it will take us a year and a half, two years. Something like that. But at that point we won’t still talk about these. There’s a balance between creativity and perfect accuracy, and the model will need to learn when you want one or the other.”
What is Altman is talking about? An #LLM has no notion of truth or accuracy, so you can't just dial up some "truth coefficient."
@kentindell@chrisoffner3d In fact, I see quite a bit of similarities between what Chris has mentioned in the post cited below and the extremely dangerous assumptions that #Tesla has been using to underpin their #FSDBeta program - namely, the so-called "generalized self-driving" (no defined Operational Design Domain).
The Tesla #Autopilot Team has always embraced a very primitive safety strategy that they try to sell as "validation" - if I am being generous.
@kentindell@chrisoffner3d The fact is that a automated driving system that does not require a human driver fallback under any conditions over an unbounded ODD would require a engineered system such that it would be capable of validating itself, continuously.
#Tesla has never remotely offered up a safety case to achieve that.
No one has.
Instead, they just sloppily scope it as a "software problem" and toss it out there, as you are aware.
I have said it before, and I will keep saying it...
Nothing has damaged #Detroit and #Michigan more than the #automotive industry - from multiple fronts and multiple perspectives.
And although I believe that some public officials here are starting to (finally) recognize that, we must be far more aggressive in shifting away from this industry in Michigan.
The amount of state incentives that have currently been spent on #BEV#battery facilities is too much at this point.
I look at the current #UAW#union contract negotiations from that perspective.
Auto workers absolutely deserve a larger, better share of the US economy then they are getting today, no question... but it will be all but impossible to obtain that via an industry that is in terminal decline (and should decline).
UAW members need better, more diverse outlets for their skills and talents.
I know it is difficult, but #Michigan needs to really internalize that - and very, very soon.
Although the political value of #Detroit (middle-class jobs and a very important state to win for US presidential elections) coupled with its outsized dependence on #automotive manufacturing... absolutely shape the horrid #transportation policy across the US.
Detroit really does define the whole US in many ways that are not healthy.
And we are capable of so much more. I know we are. I can feel it in my bones. I can see it with my eyes.
On synthesizing and evaluating the potential superconducting properties of #LK99…
I really am starting to be convinced that live-streamed “open science” via social media is a net negative.
It seems that amateur claims and leaps have, once again, handily eclipsed competent commentary in a extremely complex field.
It erodes public trust and respect for actual scientific inquiry and rigor - and I would submit that the boom in #antivax “science” we see is a natural byproduct.
I think also, tangentially, it speaks to the difficulty (or near-impossibility) that systems safety experts have had (over the last 6-7 years or so) in punching through the “#AI” hype in scrutinizing so-called “self driving-cars” - and people have died due to that.
This is especially true with respect to #Tesla’s #FSDBeta program where Tesla customers (and some prominent members of the #MachineLearning Community) are convinced that legitimate science is being conducted on public roadways.
It is "science-by-video"... which is anything but science.
Zero rigor and zero introspection by most on the limitations of their own competencies.
I really think it speaks to my broader position that #Twitter especially (and #YouTube to some degree, also) have really devolved into extremely low-quality mediums for public education and factual knowledge - despite the presence of many competent scientists and engineers on them.