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byRoger W Moore
ber 15, 2025 @09:06PM
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Attached to: China 'Stole Vast Amounts' of Classified UK Documents, Officials Say
By Dominic's Cummings own admission revealing this secret is a criminal offence which we can hope will be treated a bit more seriously than driving all the way to Barnard Castle during the pandemic lock down.
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byRoger W Moore
ber 15, 2025 @04:20PM
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Attached to: US Falls Out of Top 10 on List of the World's Most Powerful Passports
True, but when you actually look at the differences between where a UK (ranked 8th), Canadian (ranked 9th) or US passport will get you without a visa let's just say it's not a list of places I plan to be visiting anytime soon but at least I still get to feel morally superior! ;-)
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byRoger W Moore
r 14, 2025 @03:33PM
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Attached to: Generative AI Systems Miss Vast Bodies of Human Knowledge, Study Finds
In a basic sense, this is true
Not really it's just wrong. The one approach that came from Western cultures is the scientific method which is both objective (to the maximum extent any human method has yet achieved) and universal which is why there is no such thing as Chinese, Canadian or Indian etc science there is just science because it is universal. As you alluded to the scientific method has often (including now to some degree) found itself at odds with western culture so I would argue that the scientific method is a product of western culture but not part of it.
Arguing that it is "culturally situated" is nonsense. While science has definitely impacted western culture it has also impacted every culture around the planet and today there are scientists in every continent from a myriad of different cultures. Your culture may impact which questions you want to answer with science but, if you are doing it correctly, it will not affect the knowledge you find and that's why it is both universal and acultural. Indeed, the universal nature of science means it is one of the few things that can bring people of different cultures to work together towards a common goal: to understand the objective reality that we all share.
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byRoger W Moore
er 09, 2025 @04:24PM
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Attached to: UK's Central Bank Warns of Growing Risk That AI Bubble Could Burst
....that natural stupidity is even more dangerous than artificial intelligence.
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byRoger W Moore
ber 08, 2025 @10:33AM
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Attached to: Nvidia's Huang Says He's Surprised AMD Offered 10% of the Company in 'Clever' OpenAI Deal
It's rare to see such a good example of damning with faint praise. It even managed to cast aspersions on their next generation product all while seemingly heaping praise on them.
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byRoger W Moore
r 07, 2025 @05:52PM
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Attached to: Fake AI-Generated Actress Gets Agent - and a Very Angry Reaction from (Human) Actors Union
This won't stop the copyright holders suing but that way it's just money passing hands between big corporations, Sony and Disney vs OpenAI or Microsoft or Google or whoever else.
How's that going to work exactly? How will Sony know whom to sue if they contact me and I tell them I made the video myself? If they do not believe me they will have to sue me to get a name and what happens if the court does not believe me too? Even if I did make the video with some AI company's product, I'd be the one who made money by uploading it not that AI company so why are they the ones who have to pay?
You can't cut the creator out of the legal process so easily: they are the only one who knows whether the video used any AI and they are also the one potentially making money from it. It's clear though that the problem is out-of-control greedy companies: the artists are caught between AI companies who want to trample over copyrights and studios who will dump them the instant a much cheaper, photo-realistic AI actor is practical. At the same time moves to strengthen copyrights against AI will almost certianly be abused by the same studios to come after creators.
I agree that laws should treat humans and AI algorithms differently but for that to work you have to be able to distinguish AI vs human work and so far we can't do that with anything like sufficient reliability..
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byRoger W Moore
r 07, 2025 @05:24PM
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Attached to: What Happens When AI Directs Tourists to Places That Don't Exist?
It's two hours on the train from Sheffield, two and a quarter from Leeds.
Yes, provided that you can afford ~100+ quid for a ticket, live in Leeds near the station and the trains are all running on time. Even living close to Leeds like Harrogate, adds another 1+ hours each way without any other delays making a day trip much less practical especially given the extreme cost. That's also assuming that you are not arriving in London before 10am - if you are arriving before the cut-off the cost is 200+ quid.
So prehaps, if you are living in the middle of Sheffield, the closest city in Yorkshire to London and money is no object it's a day trip but for those not living near a station in a major city and whose budgets are more limited it is most definitely not.
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byRoger W Moore
r 07, 2025 @05:07PM
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Attached to: YouTube's Biggest Star MrBeast Fears AI Could Impact 'Millions of Creators' After Sora Launch
Would you drink warm vomit for $100,000 to donate $1,000,000 to a bunch of blind kids so they can see again?
That sounds less like AI and more like a sponsorship deal with Bud Light.
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byRoger W Moore
r 07, 2025 @12:24PM
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Attached to: Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics
It's not the same thing at all. In a tunnel diode the tunneling takes place at the microscopic scale. It would be like holding a (very weak for safety!) alpha particle source in your hand. All those alpha particles being emitted tunnelled out of a nuclear potential but the tunnelling took place at the nuclear scale.
The difference here is that the size of the quantum system was, itself, macroscopic - the circuit that had quantized energy levels and showed tunnelling was macroscopic. This was a significant result although I struggle a bit to see it as being at the level of a Nobel prize but at least it's better than last year when they gave the physics prize to a computer scientist!
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byRoger W Moore
06, 2025 @08:16AM
(#65706672)
Attached to: What Happens When AI Directs Tourists to Places That Don't Exist?
Exactly. In the UK you'd never usually consider London as a day trip from Yorkshire but here in Alberta I've driven to Calgary from Edmonton and back in a day and it's exactly the same distance - it is a long day mind you.
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byRoger W Moore
06, 2025 @07:58AM
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Attached to: Fake AI-Generated Actress Gets Agent - and a Very Angry Reaction from (Human) Actors Union
It takes a lot of existing material from various sources and just shuffles it about to create a sort of randomized mash up of all these sources.
Which is exactly what we do a lot, if not all, the time. We take existing ideas but rearrange them into something that can appear very new. A lot of people at the time that the iPhone launched complained that everything it did had been done before but just not quite in the same way and all in the same device - and yet that was something we typically regard as new, innovative and revolutionary. Arguably, any new musical composition is merely a rearrangement of notes that have all been played before. etc.
That's the problem with inspired vs. copied when it comes to AI and humans. I'd definitely agree that AI perhaps has more of a propensity to copy than a human and definitely it can produce infringing output, just like a human can. However, if nobody can recognize AI output as having been copied then it has done pretty much the same thing as we humans do: produced a new, unique arrangement 'inspired' by previous content. While AI clearly does not have the same thought process as a human, its inputs and (when it works) its outputs are functionally the same and if we start writing laws that differentiate on the process in between that's getting very dangerously close to legislating allowed thought patterns.
That's my big concern with this. The ultimate consequences of the types of legislation that people are now calling for are potentially very damaging if you have a large corporation willing to aggressively pursue law suits. Even limiting any new laws to just AI-generated content won't help since it is impossible to differentiate human and AI content reliably meaning humans could get sued for content they created.
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byRoger W Moore
05, 2025 @08:12PM
(#65705944)
Attached to: Fake AI-Generated Actress Gets Agent - and a Very Angry Reaction from (Human) Actors Union
On the topic of AI generated content being theft:
The problem with this is that it makes us all thieves. All our work, regardless of field, is based and built on the work of those who came before us. As Newton himself said back in 17th century "if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". Three and a half centuries later we've got here by doing a lot of shoulder standing and never paying royalties of everything we go on to create to those who taught and inspired us.
I'd be very, very leery of expanding IP rights to allow this. I'm sure the artists calling for this are not planning to abuse it but we all know by know that standing in the wings are corporations who will that such rights and clobber us all with them.
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byRoger W Moore
05, 2025 @02:10PM
(#65705322)
Attached to: AI's 'Cheerful Apocalyptics': Unconcerned If AI Defeats Humanity
Agreed but arguably some of the first home computers were too but they evolved to become indispensable. So perhaps not ChatGPT but the 'son' or 'grandson' of it might be just as useful if they can fix some of its limitations...like hallucinations.
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byRoger W Moore
er 04, 2025 @03:35AM
(#65702588)
Attached to: Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It's Messing With Our View of the Cosmos
People need to travel from Geneva to Paris. People don't need to fuck around with clocks arbitrarily twice a year.
People do not _need_ to do either. They want to do both. You may not want to change the clocks and that's fine but that's a personal preference and has literally nothing to do with the story. It is appallingly bad journalism to use a story you are writing as a vehicle to air your personal views. As for 'bad' the 'cost' in this case is almost certianly nothing: the algorithm that identifies and filters the noise from traffic will simply identify an filter the noise an hour later. Indeed, it is potentially a positive since it helps to confirm that the source of the noise is traffic.
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byRoger W Moore
03, 2025 @05:16PM
(#65702008)
Attached to: Hotel Prices Lead Countries To Consider Skipping COP30 Climate Summit
If you want to minimize the carbon footprint of conference-related travel,
If they were even vaguely interested in reducing their own carbon footprint they would not have 45,000 delegates attending. There are fewer than 200 countries in existence which means the average delegation size is insanely large.
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