So a German magazine decided to run an “interview” with Michael Schumacher, in which Schumacher’s “responses” were fabulations generated entirely by #AI.
The real Michael Schumacher sustained a brain injury in 2013 and has not recovered.
The Schumacher family sued the magazine and won a settlement. But the fact that this story ran at all is beyond dumbfounding.
I’m looking forward to a day when diamond surfaces can be made as cheaply as Gorilla Glass, and diamond jewelry as cheap as cubic zirconia.
Aluminum was once incredibly expensive to mine too, and now they’re ubiquitous and cheap, thanks to the invention of the Bayer process in the late 1800s.
I hope diamond goes the same way. At least it will stop the inhumane treatment of diamond mine workers.
“Scientists grow diamonds from scratch in 15 minutes thanks to groundbreaking new process”
@drahardja but isn't that the case already? My understanding is that the price of industrial diamonds is next to nothing and that the jewellry diamonds are deliberately kept in short supply. Didn't de Beers buy lots of Russian Diamond mines in the 90s to avoid the market being flooded?
@pjakobs I’m not a diamond expert, but my understanding is that industrial diamonds are still expensive to make, mainly because they need high pressures, and large particles are still very costly.
The breakthrough in this paper is that they can now do the same process at atmospheric pressure, which opens up the process to way more producers at lower prices.
The path to affordable jewelry-sized chunks is still a ways out, I think, but we are moving in that direction.
De Beers can eat shit and die, as far as I’m concerned. The sooner, the better.
“I'll cut to the chase: it's time to stop listening to anything that Sam Altman has to say. Sam Altman is full of shit, and his reign at OpenAI has been defined far more by its empty promises than any realized dreams.”
@drahardja@gilduran frankly, if they used that image and billed this project as “we’re going to dig a giant pit and throw billionaires into it” the voters might actually approve it.
@datarama I think that’s a thought trap. Nothing is pointless, even if it ends up stolen. You still gain the experience of making it. That’s something nobody can take away.