Large Language companies weren’t even aware their data (which is so large they themselves have no idea what’s in it) had other languages.

So the models suddenly knew how to speak other languages. The above story feels like those stories “Large Language Models are super intelligent! They’ve taught themselves French!” - no, mass surveillance and corporations being above the law taught them everything they know.

Assuming Open AI ect only use data from the public domain is stupid (and contrary to most news sources on the matter). He has literally no idea what the AI has trained on (not even developers know, because there’s just too much of it to be reviewed by humans). They’ve undoubtedly bought countless amounts of data that isn’t readily searchable by public engines.

He sounds very ill informed on the matter of data collection and probably just had his info/data on a cloud service somewhere whose text was part of the trillions of terrabytes LLM have accessed and trained on.

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Thank you for your understanding and explanation.

Converting heat to electricity is a problem we already understand pretty well since we’ve been doing it basically the same way since the first power plant fired up.

I don’t think we do have a means of converting this heat energy into electrical energy right now. With nuclear we put radioactive rods into heavy water to create steam and drive turbines…

What’s the plan for these fusion reactors? You can’t dump them into water, nor can you dump water into them… I don’t believe we have a means of converting the energy currently.

Even if we could dump water into them it would explosively evaporate because they run at 100 million degrees Celsius. That would be a very loud bang and whatever city they were in would be gone.

In 1932, Walton produced the first man-made fission by using protons from the accelerator to split lithium into alpha particles.[5]

We’ve been at this for coming up to 100 years too.

Let me know when they actually generate power. I don’t want another article about a guy jumping off the eifle tower in a bird suit. A successful flight should be measured by the success of the flight.

Power generators should be measured by the power generated.

0 watts. Franz Reichelt went splat on the pavement having proven nothing.

America, the UK, France, Japan, and no doubt other places have been toying with fusion “power” for 90 years… We’ve created heat and not much else as far as I can tell.

Verified electrical output, the answer is verified electrical power generated.

…as in we should measure power generation experiments by how much power they generated.

Isn’t that obvious?

Predicted fusion energy and energy actually harvested and converted to usable electricity are not the same thing. Your article is about “fusion energy” not experimentally verified electrical output.

It’s a physicist doing conversion calculations (from heat to potential electricity), not a volt meter measuring actual output produced.

Generating massive amounts of heat and harvesting that and converting it to power are two (or three) different problems.

Yeah, and we measured them to the purpose of flight… Not wingspan, or how soft the wheels were.

So maybe we should measure technology that’s about generating power by…

I’ll let you fill in the blank.

P.S I have a “perpetual” motions machine that can run for 30 minutes (8 minutes longer than this fusion reactor), are you interested in investing?

EDIT: Four years ago the British Fusion reactor (J.E.T. originally built in 1984) produced “59 megajoules of heat energy” none of which was harvested and turned into electricity. The project was then shutdown for good after 40 years of not generating power.

Guarantee you they weren’t generating a whole lot of power though… And if you can’t do that part then what’s the point?

But they’re always right, just look at Google glass, Google plus, and Stadia… Or google buzz, google health, and igoogle.

Yep, Google never gets it wrong.

They haven’t worked since all becoming for profit, rather than for… dating. Turns out setting people up should really be charity work, not for profit.

Yeah, pretty sure Sam Altman is an investor in Praxis which is another one of those projects to make a billion run fifedom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(proposed_city)#values

Quickly, ask AI how to improve or practice critical thinking skills!

No, the joke you’re making is about Anonymous, and the authorities trying to find the leader of them.

Antifa (Antifaschistische Aktion, Anti Fascism) on the other has and will periodically form into local chapters (usually out of members of other more permanent anarchist, communist, and protest groups), to participate in protests, produce things like stickers or book drives, run pop-up or community libraries, events and form other organizational structures, events, or projects.

You’re confusing temporary, and anarchistic, with not existing.

From Wikipedia:

The contemporary antifa movement has its roots in the West German Außerparlamentarische Opposition left-wing student movement and largely adopted the aesthetics of the first movement while being ideologically somewhat dissimilar. The first antifa groups in this tradition were founded by the Maoist Communist League in the early 1970s. From the late 1980s, West Germany’s squatter scene and left-wing autonomism movement were the main contributors to the new antifa movement and in contrast to the earlier movement had a more anarcho-communist leaning. The contemporary movement has splintered into different groups and factions, including one anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist faction and one anti-German faction who strongly oppose each other, mainly over their views on Israel.

So yeah, antifa is a movement which does periodically have people participate in it. They’re just usually temporary and anarchistic.

Likewise with the French Resistance, or Marquis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquis_(World_War_II) - yes there were various groups, and they had different structures, some of which were independent detached cells, but at various points some were aided with more official supply, intel, organization, and assistance from allied forces, and required more communication and so some become more “official” due to this. So it was mixed, some completely independent, others less so.

This is part of what makes these organizations effective, and difficult to stop. It’s not the same as them not existing… Not having set and formal national leadership, being temporary, or anarchistic, is not the same as not existing, or having no members.

You got things backwards.

The hackers known as anonymous all went their separate ways long ago, leaving 4chans anonymous to be little more than a series of social media accounts releasing videos periodically. You say “they released a statement yesterday”… Er… That’s all they do. They haven’t had any power and members with skill sets since 2008 or so.

…and antifa do exist. Most anarchist are, or are willing to call themselves antifa. A huge number of people used black block (blocking out), and mutual aid to manage, organize, and run the Black Lives Matters riots, and the Portland Corrections protests.

Behind the Bastards had a whole series detailing it, including all the local chapters and groups that cropped up or started in that period.

So pretty much the opposite of what you said: Anonymous doesn’t really exist beyond constantly releasing statements, and antifa does exist and will most likely take up organizational roles if any long term street protests erupt.

Interesting that he’s making this offer now, isn’t it. Almost like he’s recently got access to a large sum of money.

Is this The News? Looking forward to listening to some Weather Report later.