Anyone know how far off economical EV motorcycles are? They'll be game-changers for many south east asian cities where traffic is 90% motorcycles, which seem to pollute as much (/more ?) than cars.
Silly observation: the garage door rolls up to reveal the Oboe maker, but the nyt subscription paywall moves up the screen faster, as though parodying itself.
(very) Important to note this doesn't appear to be an attempt at passing off a digitally altered (/AI generated) image as real, but rather the creation of a digitally altered image with the intent of mocking the individual. When I stumbled across the altered photo I immediately knew it was a joke (i.e. had been created using AI), although I didn't notice it was created by the White House (although that wouldn't have made a difference).
Rule of law is so important, and society (especially the vulnerable) suffers when weak leaders fail to enforce the law. That said, we can have our cake and eat it too - strong law enforcement (a la Singapore style) can occur without mocking wrong doers.
I hope you understand that you have never been able to take photos the gov releases at face value.
But today, we know this administration will openly lie, and double down in the face of any refutable proof. Literally since DAY ONE they tried to push a crowd size narrative that we all saw in real time was a lie.
Call me a relic of a bygone era of seriousness and decency, but I don't think the White House should be in the business of mocking individuals online, either. But I know we're well past that point.
I wrote this a long time ago, but I think the metaphor was about generative AI applications vs. traditional software applications, not about AI coding agents vs. writing code yourself.
Maybe the train is software that's built by SWEs (w/ or w/o AI help). Specifically built for going from A to B very fast. But not flexible, and takes a lot of effort to build and maintain.
> After a couple hours of not seeing much more than contrails in the distance, closer to 3:00 in the morning, I got another low flyover, but this one looked different.
> The aircraft that passed overhead this time appeared to be closer to an equilateral triangle shape with a flatter trailing edge.
This could have the unintended consequence of encouraging under-agers to ask more 'adult' questions in order to try to trick it into thinking they're an adult. Analogous to the city that wanted to get rid of rats, so offered a bounty for every dead rat, and to the surprise of nobody except policy makers, the city ended up with more rats, not less. (lesson: they thought they were incentivising less rats, but unintentionally incentivised more)
The padding in OpenAI's statement is easy to see through:
> The model looks at a combination of behavioral and account-level signals, including how long an account has existed, typical times of day when someone is active, usage patterns over time, and a user’s stated age.
(the only real signal here is 'usage patterns' - AKA the content of conversations - the other variables are obfuscation to soften the idea that OpenAI will be pouring over users' private conversations to figure out if they're over/under age.).
I am an actual minor and I think I used to watch enough mature content (ie some finance,geopolitics & tech) from youtube where they may have thought I was greater than 18
But when youtube rolled out, I saw this video on taxes simply for tricking the youtube algorithm which had like A LOT of views.
I went to the comments and much of them were teenagers bashing the yt idea and commenting in jest about how yes they got helped in their taxes etc.
I simply don't see how openAI would be any different.
Youtube is still a one in a million though, Nothing else like that exists but there are many chat providers like OpenAI which are actually pretty good nowadays & don't want your id.
I find predication markets the most accurate form of 'news'. For example, if I want to understand if a claim (e.g. a news headline) has merit, I check the prediction market and easily dismiss/confirm it. Recently it has been useful to understand the situation in Iran. It has also informed my travel decisions to other countries based on geopolitical dangers.
Are prediction markets perfect? Of course not. But the difference is in prediction markets someone has something to lose (real money), whereas legacy news values sensationalism over accuracy and sobriety.
i don't know much about prediction markets aside from just a very high level view but i bumped into a thread on twitter that talks about how game-able they are as well if you have a decent chunk of money. e.g i throw 100k into "yes" and now bots/people think some insider has real info, and more shares get thrown into "yes" and then last minute the bot undoes the trade and throws a bunch of money into "no" and no resolves and they made a lot more money.
again, i don't know enough about prediction markets, but this feels like i can't really trust lower liquidity "predictions" (i guess very similar to penny stocks).
One can argue that main news headline predictions will have so much volume that it's impossible to rig it this way, but what's stopping state actors from manipulation?
It really will become about rich people swaying narratives or even making reality comport to their desires when practical. Poor people without insider info will just lose their savings on gambling. A cheaper stock market.
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