Railway is expensive to build.

Edit: I love trains, it’s the best transport. But depending on the terrain, railway can be very expensive. Not to mention is difficult to add tracks today, because cities are densely populated and you need space that is not available. It’s much easier to buy and rud a couple of planes, than to add tracks.

Living too comfortably is not the main problem. There problem is when you are struggling. When you are struggling you don’t care about anything else but your immediate circumstances. You are in constant triage. And now and more people are forced into that .

Fediverse FTW!

I like tab coding, writing small blocks of code that it thinks I need. Its On point almost all the time. This speeds me up.

My point is people aren’t expecting AGI. People have already tried them and understand what the general capabilities are. Businesses today even more. I don’t think exaggerating the capabilities is such an overarching issue, that anyone could call the whole thing a scam.

Do they though? No one I talked to, not my coworkers that use it for work, not my friends, not my 72 year old mother think they are sentient.

I don’t understand why this is so important, marketing is all about exaggerating, why expect something different here.

I don’t think anyone is so stupid to believe current ai can solve everything.

And honestly, I didn’t see any marketing material that would claim that.

Those are two different things.

1. they are craming ai everywhere because nobody wants to miss the boat and because it plays well in the stock market.

2. the people claiming it’s awesome and that they are doing I don’t know what with it, replacing people are mostly influencers and a few deluded people.

Ai can help people in many different roles today, so it makes sense to use it. Even in roles that is not particularly useful, it makes sense to prepare for when it is.

I think in many cases people intentionally or unintentionally disregard the time component here. Ai is in development. I think what is being marketed here, just like in the stock market, is a piece of the future. I don’t expect the models I use to be perfect and not make mistakes, so I use them accordingly. They are useful for what I use them for and I wouldn’t use them for chess. I don’t expect that laundry detergent to be just as perfect in the commercial either.

I don’t think ai is being marketed as awesome at everything. It’s got obvious flaws. Right now its not good for stuff like chess, probably not even tic tac toe. It’s a language model, its hard for it to calculate the playing field. But ai is in development, it might not need much to start playing chess.

…or a simple counter to count the r in strawberry. Because that’s more difficult than one might think and they are starting to do this now.

I believe it’s a real weapon. Although I’m sure those are not steel plates. Probably something like led. The other video from that crazy guy is also shot at something very close.

I’m wondering what their effective range is.

In any case, if Russians get this in any significant number it will set a dangerous precedent.

How real is this?

I’m sure the Chinese see the amazing opportunity to test their weapons and thats understandable, but if they deploy a bunch of them that would be a really bad sign and would mean china might get Russians other advanced weaponry.

No cigar unfortunately. Bridge was reopened immediately after.

The bridge was closed only for a few hours, so little damage. No cause for celebration I’m afraid.

Funny. I’m thinking some people made a lot of money.

On the other hand, I think Lemmy folks would be pleased, that an ai company didn’t harm the environment 😀

Stock is up almost 50% from the bottom about two months ago.

Things be crazy.

I pirate everything. I started more than 35 years ago when I didn’t have any other option because of my location, so it became the norm. Later, I didn’t have much money and I didn’t want to spend it on software and games. Later I just stuck with it. I never delved into ethics of it - it seems a very tedious task to do.

I did buy some stuff here and there. But even today, id pirate games for sure, in not going to dish out 50, if I don’t even know if I’ll like it.

Interestingly, never in my life I had issues with viruses or malware. Sure I got some, but the basic antivirus software delt with it and I had no consequences.

It really sucks that we got this war at the same time as ai. If we didn’t have this war, ai weapons would be untested for years in domain of US and China. And even them would probably have a limited number of them, possibly so overengineered that nobody would think of mass scale usage. Now this f**cked up weapon is really a necessity.

Can’t get that star trek TNG episode out of my mind.