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axbom, to random
@axbom@axbom.me avatar

Fascinated by the rebuttal that humans make mistakes too, so algorithms should be allowed to as well.

As if the machine is disconnected from the humans building, deploying and using them.

The machines are an extension of human mistakes, not its own separate entity with free will.

It would appear, ironically, that when a huge number of humans are involved in building the machines, the humans become invisible.

Future historians:
"They couldn't see the humans because of all the machines."

#AIEthics #DigitalEthics

nafnlaus,
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@axbom They really aren't. These aren't puppets. They're not hand-coded. Their learning is unsupervised. Literally, it's called "unsupervised learning".

nafnlaus,
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@axbom You're talking about something you don't understand. There is no "labeling" in unsupervised learning. It's literally right there in the name: it's unsupervised. It's "here's a giant mass of data. Get good at predicting it." Humans aren't in the loop at all.

The fact that LLMs are a black box is not some mystery, it's an inherent aspect of dense representations, aka detailed generalized models, of the world, and why we too are black boxes.

itnewsbot, to tesla

Elon Musk gives Tesla ultimatum: Another 12% of shares or no AI, robotics - Enlarge (credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images/Aurich Lawson)

El... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1996256

nafnlaus,
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@itnewsbot can gladly pack his bags and leave. He doesn't own any of it. The stack? Nope. computers? Nope. ? Nope. Optimus? Nope.

All he owns is X.AI, a new chatbot startup - a latecomer in a crowded field.

glynmoody, to tesla
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

#Tesla wouldn't put a solar roof on Model Y so this owner did it himself - https://mashable.com/article/tesla-model-y-solar-roof "using nine 175-watt solar panels, Beta One can add 6kWh to the EV per day, which is about 20 miles of range, with five hours of sun. "

nafnlaus,
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@glynmoody He ruined his aerodynamics, costing him vastly more range on any reasonable-length drive.

nafnlaus, to Iceland Icelandic
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Seems to be two sites of overtopping of the berm, beyond where the fissure itself breached it one by the greenhouse, and one at the road closure (guess they didn't have time to close it high enough).

Third house on fire.

Still, most lava is following the berm path out west. It's helped.

#Iceland #Grindavík #Volcano #Eruption

nafnlaus, to Iceland Icelandic
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nafnlaus, to Iceland Icelandic
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If you want to see the southern fissure open up in realtime, and the process through which that happens:

https://youtu.be/MPm-J2YqzZY?t=4123

For a very cinematic aerial video:

https://ruv-vod-clips.akamaized.net/17e40a44-82dc-4338-b5ee-4254dd9310ed.mp4

#Grindavík #Volcano #Iceland #Eruption

nafnlaus, to Iceland Icelandic
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As a result of the construction worker who vanished when the earth opened up under him (they still haven't found the (presumably) body), it was decided today to re-evacuate #Grindavík.

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2024-01-13-naudsynlegt-ad-fara-i-miklar-rannsoknir-a-undirlagi-grindavikur-401833

They'll now be doing the detailed subsurface study they should have done before.

Search for the missing worker is slow because the rescue workers themselves are at similar risk.

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2024-01-12-adstaedur-til-leitar-lifshaettulegar-401747

#Iceland #Eruption #Volcano #Subsidence #Earthquake

nafnlaus,
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@ekknappenberger Surtr's not a nice guy. ;)

nafnlaus, to ai Icelandic
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I think about this #XKCD a lot.

Amazing how quickly the world is changing.

#AI

nafnlaus,
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@isagalaev But his timing was incredible, because what was then "virtually impossible" was followed by a huge explosion of research right after he published. It was from 2014, and as a reference point, Google's "Deep Dream" (which seemed like the most incredible thing at the time, but now looks so primitive) came out in 2015. Image detection really took off and became widely accessible in the late 2010s, and at the end of the 2010s LLMs started to get into their stride.

nafnlaus,
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@isagalaev To put it another way, the comment about "the virtually impossible" marked the start of the period of the "virtually impossible" coming to life and becoming everyday.

majorlinux, to China
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At what point do we call Tesla's glorified beta cars?

Tesla is just as deadly in China as it is in the US thanks to Autopilot - Desk Chair Analysts

https://dcanalysts.net/tesla-is-just-as-deadly-in-china-as-it-is-in-the-us-thanks-to-autopilot/

nafnlaus,
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@majorlinux 1) That says nothing about accident rates, let alone fatality rates.

  1. The OTA update was simply to force stricter driver monitoring.

  2. ALL modern cars handle door latches electronically in a crash. You want the doors locked at the start of & during the crash sequence, then unlocked at the end of the sequence to facilitate egress. Due to one (1!) #Tesla's doors opening in a crash, the update slightly delays the unlocking at the end of the crash sequence.

nafnlaus,
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@majorlinux 1) Updates don't install themselves. The user schedules it for their convenience.

  1. Updates are rolled out in small batches.

  2. All updates are cryptographically signed.

  3. The previous answer to "finding a way to do things even better than a top-safety-ranked-car" was either "you have to bring the car in for an update", or "simply no update at all, the car remains the same as it was when you bought it". OTA updates are an unambiguously good thing.

nafnlaus,
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@majorlinux Then, like, shut off the internet connection? You realize that's an option, right?

nafnlaus,
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@majorlinux The vast majority of people prefer convenience, when reasonable precautions (such as cryptographic signing) are taken. Which is why, say, online banking exists and is widely used.

nafnlaus,
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@majorlinux "But a bank won't risk my life" - it'll certainly risk your life's savings, and robbing you blind involves far less "A has to happen, then B has to happen, then C has to happen...." implausible chain of steps than you're positing for a hacker to kill you in your car. The former means they just need the bank's key, and then they have everything. The latter means they need Tesla's key, and control over their distribution network, you have to connect to wifi to download it, then...

nafnlaus, to TeslaMotors Icelandic
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#EV Heckler #Bingo

nafnlaus, to Russia Icelandic
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If I see another person claim "#Russia destroyed a #Tesla dealership in #Kyiv, ha ha!", I'm going to hit my head on a desk.

What about this looks like "A Tesla dealership" to you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc1-41SCsW8

Do those burned out cars look like Teslas?

Tesla has no "dealerships" in #Ukraine .

nafnlaus,
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@ekknappenberger I just care about facts and don't understand why so many people don't. Why doesn't truth matter? How does "Elon is an arse" translate into "Share misinfo about anything remotely connected to him and then get mad if someone debunks it"?

One of the things I hate most about Musk is his pushing of the notion of a post-truth world - that nothing is knowable, all views are equally valid, so just believe whatever feels best, or nothing at all. Just like they do in Putin's Russia.

stshank, to tesla
@stshank@mstdn.social avatar

Saw my first Tesla Cybertruck in the wild a few days ago. Longer than I expected, but the hood height was lower than I expected — much lower than on big new SUVs & pickups. But worse pedestrian/cyclist visibility than smaller cars, and sure wouldn't want one to hit me.

Related: a look at SUV bloat: https://slate.com/business/2023/12/cars-trucks-suv-sales-electric-safety-risk.html

#Tesla #Cybertruck

Side view of the angular Tesla Cybertruck
Front view of the angular Tesla Cybertruck

nafnlaus,
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@stshank Not sure it's really bloated. It's the shortest crew cab pickup on the market with a standard (6') bed. The packing efficiency is really good.

Or do you mean just crew cabs in general?

nafnlaus,
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@stshank Yeah, crew cabs didn't used to be a "thing", now they're practically expected. Trucks have grown a lot over the years.

nafnlaus,
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@stshank Lol, what's the point of that? Are they planning to throw arrested people in the bed? 😂

Tendar, to Ukraine
@Tendar@newsie.social avatar

The Ukrainian SBU released a video of one of their USVs. It shows a spectacular new development. Apparently, Ukrainian USVs are now capable to fire missiles. The video shows an attack against Russian Navy vessels at the port of Russian-occupied Sevastopol.

Source: https://t.me/Crimeanwind/51185

#Ukraine #Crimea #Sevastopol

video/mp4

nafnlaus,
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@Tendar I was thinking about this just this morning. Something not much more advanced than the Syrian "Elephant Rockets" would completely bypass both Sevastopol's and the Crimean Bridge's boat / submarine defenses. Just a short-range lob is all you need.

nafnlaus, to Russia Icelandic
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Met an American tonight who spent a year living in #Russia, following her then-fiancé.

First night in #Moscow, went to stay at a hostel. The guy at the hostel asked, in an unfriendly manner, why are you here? She lied and said because Moscow is a famous, beautiful city. He shook his head no.

"The city is grey. The country is grey. The sky is grey. The people are grey. Everything is grey here."

nafnlaus,
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That was pretty much the universal experience in her year living in #Russia: one cold (physically and emotionally), emotionally distant, and cynical.

The only warmth she felt was from babies; she found the Russian babies adorable. She praised a smiling baby to its mother, but was quickly shaken out of the moment when the mother replied basically that babies smile because they haven't yet learned that life is suffering.

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