I wonder how many of those people are significantly reducing their carbon footprint & voting for environmental policies. It’s going to be a lot easier for everyone to find not-disaster-prone locations to move to if we reduce the trajectory towards apocalypse even a little.
NSF is requesting feedback regarding its intent to restructure NCAR. Respond, and inform NSF about the value and benefits of all of NCAR, not only its constituent parts. Readers can submit comments through 13 March.
Readers can contact their members of Congress through easy-to-use resources provided by AGU and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Specifically referencing the murder of James Byrd Jr by white supremacists in 1998?
I’m horrified by subscription features on hardware, but if Tesla wants to pour gasoline on its dumpster fire, great.
Out of curiosity, $8,000/$99 = 6yr 9mo.
As commenters on Ars have pointed out, lane keeping is a pretty standard feature at this point.
Ah, yep. Someone seems to have the full PDF. Beginning of Part The Second is it, rather more disturbing thematically than I remembered.
Source? Is this part of a story?
Which Neal Stephenson involved a DNA-based compute penal colony orgy? Hopefully that doesn’t describe more than one.
Most of the bugs that make it to production are where the code seems totally reasonable, but someone misunderstood how systems interact, or what really happens in a corner case. AI is great at making reasonable looking code. It’s terrible at… understanding.
Me today: And make sure the tests pass. AI: Great, the test cases are all updated! Me: You didn’t actually run then. AI: Perfect! You’re absolutely right, I will run the tests now.
In April, her 23-year-old son, Connor Lopez, was riding his motorcycle in Elk Grove when an oncoming car made a left turn and collided with him.
Lopez, a piano teacher, died in the roadway. The district attorney’s office charged the driver, Harjit Kaur, with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter — alleging that her failure to yield to oncoming traffic caused the fatal crash, court records show.
She said she was talking to police and one of the officers kept referring to the case as “low-level.” “She took my son’s life, but that’s how they’re seen — low-level,” Lyman said.
It really highlights something someone commented on another post: that we all suppress the knowledge that we’re driving two-ton death boxes. Like, it’s easy to say “she just made a turn without checking carefully enough,” and hard to rectify that with “she killed someone, however unintentionally.”
If people could focus as much on climate as on AI.
To save folks reading the long winded intro: