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  • Good points. There have been tests on self driving trucks, but not much more. My opinion is that the tools are not mature enough, and the industry is not willing to risk putting trucks on the road that may get stuck in the middle of the trip, because there is a roadblock and it cannot circumvent it, or that it goes on big detours because it somehow sees non-existing roadblocks.

    Also there is still a problem of liability. If a truck fails to give way to an ambulance or a firefighter truck, or if it gets in an accident, who is responsible? The manufacturer in theory, unless they waive responsibility to the owner of the truck, and in that case what company would risk their face and money on a technology that has not proven itself?

    All in all, at the moment I see a lot of reasons to doubt the technology, and few reasons to embrace it, unless it becomes trustworthy enough that it is economically viable.

    Ps. Putting trucks on a fixed route, in a convoy, feels a lot like re-inventing the train haha


  • I agree with your opinion that all this companies are illegally abusing the content freely available on the internet to train this models.

    What annoyed me in the article, is that they are talking about “what jobs AI will steal” and immediately gave it abilities that it does not currently have (and I’ve seen it a lot of this on fear mongering type of articles). It reminded me on all the articles “truck drivers will be out of job in 3 months”.

    It does not find content on the Internet (Gemini, copilot, … Is trying to give it that functionality, with hilarious results). It does not act in any way.

    If you want to put it in simple terms, the current AI is a tool that reads a lot of content, and when you ask it something it gives you an answer trying to recall something and forming a coherent answer (hence all the hallucinations). It is extremely good at forming coherent answers, quite bad at giving correct answers and absolutely incapable of haveing other types of functionality (though they are trying hard to create new multi-agent tools that on paper are capable of independently searching for information, or using other tools to get the answer it needs, but it still fails a lot of times).


  • “Given that ChatGPT and other forms of generative AI create their output by synthesizing what they find on the internet”

    Wow that is almost, but not completely, the opposite of what it does. And given its current form, it cannot really replace much (and we don’t really know how it will look in the future, or if it will be much better than how it is now).

    Looking at self driving cars, how much money was thrown at the problem, and how far are we still from looking at a fully self driving car, I would say AI replacing jobs is 90% marketing and 10% substance (there are fields where it is becoming very effective, like for example machine translation).


  • The article is from May 19, 2022. I can find very little information about the vote of this Wednesday. While I don’t doubt its authenticity, I find it unlikely that it would pass. Last time they tried, doing it much more loudly and going as far as spreading disinformation campaigns on TV and in social media, they still completely failed at having the legislation passed. To me it looks like someone is finishing their mandate, so they are scrambling to show that they are doing the work they have been paid to do (by lobbist, obviously not by the people).

    I hope I will not be proven wrong.







  • “Before you go jumping to conclusions about her ineptitude, Brianna Janel was actually following the rules laid out by Tesla.”

    From the article. And from her own video she confirmed she was never in any threat for her health or her life. She just followed the VERY dumb instructions given her for fear it would damage her car… The only idiots here are the engineer at Tesla, that gives instructions that makes no practical sense (the manual opening of the door could damage the car… Seriously? How could you make a door that could be damaged of opened manually, especially if you do not expect the automatic mode of operation to be fully functional 100% of the time?)




  • “says the women who use these groups aren’t doing anything wrong as long as what they’re sharing is their opinion or the truth” what possibly could go wrong with that?

    I understand the sentiment, creating a space where women could feel more safe when meeting with complete strangers by asking other woman. But this has so much potential for abuse that I cannot really see how it could have a positive impact. A crazy ex can already ruin the social life of a person by spreading lies to your inner circle (people of all genders are perfectly capable of this), but if this kind of things gain traction, they would be capable to remotely ruin any new attempt of creating a new life far away.