Your information seems to be outdated, unless every single street I’ve been on for the past year is “vetted”. All the other (consumer) car brand’s self-driving systems do have that limitation though, maybe that's where the confusion came from. Tesla is self-driving 98% of my mileage, with the 2% being when I take over to choose a specific parking spot or I’m towing/carrying something big.
Don’t know much about how it does in the rain since moving to SoCal but in clear weather it hasn’t come close to hitting anyone yet. Even proactively warned me a few times while I was driving. Maybe I should let it take over in parking lots too :)
It'll be hard, when I'm never causing any accidents or speeding or running reds/stop signs. Maybe they could get me for inattentive driving but that's what the tinted windows are for.
It's... complicated and a bit disputed. The trends match but the attempts at proper comparison study is not quite as conclusive (good social studies are difficult to make). It's certainly true that the trend is negative rather than positive.
What you're talking about are specific local policy changes at specific school and equating random trends to some sort of ... "kids these days" message.
If we're talking about the US; then it's simply the very healthy and functional economic inventive of students taking out lifetime loans to pay school tuition for schools that have not actually risen in quality or format in 40 years. The more students; the more money to the school board! Lower those bar riiight down!
I would echo that it’s local. I often poke fun at my SO and her sister for their absolutely trash tier quality education supplied by the Indiana public school system. I’m often flabbergasted by what they didn’t learn in primary and secondary schooling. They were able to go to decent universities, though, but it really opened my eyes to how terrible red states run their public school systems.
It’s not even a flyover state thing, if you just look at Wisconsin and Minnesota. It’s uniquely red state. Also Indiana department of transportation is terrible as well.
"optimize the internal combustion engine" that requires good quality combustion simulations and iterative optimization algorithms; and we've had that for longer than the internet; that kind of work was the earliest uses of military comptuers. Why would a text model be better at it?
Maths i a cool benchmark, but has the similar benefit to software; very easy to verify.
Does AI transform the world more than;
- CAD software
- Office software
- Spreadsheet software
- Finance software
- Digital banking software
- Computer graphics software
- The entire US national fiber grid
Cause at the current rate and scope of data center investments; they have to transform the world more than... every other software system we've come up with until this points combined; to justify their cost.
They have to transform the world more than whatever the bond rate is right now, (which admittedly is increasing). I'm not sure that that's greater than office software, digital banking etc. But I don't think it's as high a bar as some people think.
From a paying back data centre debt point of view, yeah. The equity valuations on the other hand are priced for total transformation in the short term.
And is there enough business or computer demand for all the data centers we're building? I don't think anyone has an answer to that.
And likewise; computers took a few decades to actually become a widespread economic force. Arguably the impact was quite small if we separate it from the internet (which of-course depends on computers).
Hard to describe the impact of computing as quite small compared to anything, even the internet when you go see those old room sized early IBM computers that were the first commercially viable ones for businesses. They used to have warehouses of payroll documents and armies of people to shuffle around paperwork and crunch numbers and physical people connecting phone lines. Just absolutely fantastically massive amounts of busy work.
Good insight. For a long time, the utility of a computer was tied to its ability to print something onto a sheet of paper. User interfaces came along, too, though. Especially for industrial applications. Then internet was probably the third wave. Now AI is the fourth?
You say that with quite an certainty but i don't think there is grounds for that at all.
Why would it correct any bias? how would it correct any bias? If data has a bias the analysis has a bias; correcting a bias against the data is itself by definition a bias.
"Super intelligence" (whatever we even define that as) will have whatever goals we give it; intentionally or not.
>You say that with quite an certainty but i don't think there is grounds for that at all.
Of-course there is. I got a lot of biases from my parents, that I self corrected later on in life, through reason and observation. And I don't fancy myself as high IQ or something.
>Why would it correct any bias?
It would have to, to achieve its goals. Biases lead to wrong actions.
>how would it correct any bias?
Through reason and observation.
>If data has a bias the analysis has a bias;
Somewhat wrong. You are thinking about byte-perfect LLM weights. Their data input is training data, which is set by indeed the ones who train it. Some super-intelligent synthetic entity would have realtime data input from all over the environment, which sooner or later roots out any bias. That is one feature we have, self-correcting, not everyone uses it fully, but we all do to some extent.
If your parents raised you with the notion that the Earth is flat, and you go to ISS as an astronaut later in life, don't you self correct what you were thought? Simply based on observation, and reason?
> Some super-intelligent synthetic entity would have realtime data input from all over the environment, which sooner or later roots out any bias.
No, i meant this data. All data has bias based on how it's collected. All models (models as... Einsteins general relativity, not AI model) simplify reality with assumptions. You cannot make actions in our reality without making assumptions, simplifications or straight up guesses. Having decent guesses are the best we can hope.
> Biases lead to wrong actions.
Biases is the only way any action can be taken. Wrong actions can only be evaluated after the result has been observed; and even then the outcome of the alternative would remain unknown.
> that I self corrected later on in life, through reason and observation
That is incredibly naive. You have biases, i have biases. If we were not convinced by irrational arguments or suggestions then the advertisement industry would not exit. We have no reason to believe raising "intelligence" higher would help at all; intelligent people seem if anything more prone to finding false but convincing reasoning for their own established beleifs.
Everything is gray, only maths class have an answer sheet. Nobody agrees and will ever agree on how anything will ever be done; and the best we can do is argue until the majority are at-least pretending to agree.
Sweden have by hour and more recently by 10 minute electricity billing. Companies use it in automatic load balancing, car chargers use it, and IoT pilled dads in their 50s make home assistant schedules based on it.
It's pretty good! The need came from the high variability of wind power. Less dystopian than ... data centers... urgh.
It's of course optional. If you optimise well you can beat the monthly or daily tables and save quite a bit. If you don't care; you pay whatever the grid operator estimates.
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