LLM AI in the hugging face incident is just a complex roomba, brute forcing every direction until it can get out from under the couch.

That is such a great statement, I’m going to have to use that when describing LLMs.

Thanks 👍

That is actually true. Air behaves much differently at low temps than it does at high temps. At cold temps the air will be much denser. Airplanes for example can take off with significantly shorter runways on cold days, often seeing more than a 50% faster climb rate and acceleration.

That said, I’d bet more than anything, that the bigger difference is how your ear drums behave at lower temps. If those membranes are a little stiffer, that’s going to make a big difference in what things sound like.

That said, while I have flown planes, I’m not a doctor, so I don’t actually have expertise in that area.

That’s a thing no matter where you live!

That’s what you thought he meant?

This wasn’t a failure of communication on his part, it was a failure on yours.

Derivatives and other complex financial instruments.

Tools for cheating others out of money, obfuscating transactions or skirting legal restrictions.

That’s an oldie. Groucho Marx I think.

I have to watch this in its entirety every time it’s linked.

Whenever someone turns to look behind them, I turn them into a pillar of salt.

It’s just this fun thing I do.

You’re missing the point, nobody is talking about trusting these companies.

You can tell if a connection is encrypted end to end or not. And if your paying for that service you can sue if you aren’t receiving what your paying for.

In digital security nobody relies on trust if they can help it. And security matters if you want to keep a competitive edge on your competition, so even shitty companies care about that.

I have significant doubts about this “any Tesla as robotaxi” idea at least if you’re referring to Musk’s empty promises about how you could make money off your own Tesla while not using it.

Oh man, I have serious doubts about that! But that’s what they’ve claimed they want to do. And I can see the profit motive there, so I have no doubt they’ll try. I’m not saying it’ll work.

I mean, there’s no problem here. In fact, I think it’s super sensible to make this a 2 seater.

Clearly their plan is ultimately for this robotaxi service to be something you can run on any Tesla car. Meaning that the majority of cars on the service will be 5 seaters.

On the other hand, I’d bet anything that the vast majority of rides requested are for a single rider. So if you’re going to make a vehicle specifically to be the optimal car for this purpose, it should definitely be a 2 seater. Smaller, lighter, better mileage, cheaper. If you need to order a ride for more people, a different car can do that and there are more of those available anyway.

The only gripe i have, is that this really could have been a 3 seater. Generally cars have adjustable front seats because the driver needs to be able to reach the pedals comfortably. But since that isn’t an issue here, it would have made a lot of sense to make it a bench seat just like most cars have in the back. Then again, the car does look quite small, so perhaps making it a 2 seater helped them constrain the size a little bit more.

Edit: Oh yeah, don’t refute the post, just down vote it, that’s a sane and well adjusted thing to do. I mean, I’m not even saying anything controversial…

I recently read somewhere that the total new pollution caused by data centers (more specifically, by the generation of the electricity they require) is now already significantly higher than the total pollution that has been avoided by all EVs.

Well I’d love to see that source. I do care about actually understanding the relative carbon footprints of these industries. You can’t make informed decisions without being informed, so that matters to me.

But that said, the EV industry desperately needed a kickstart, and it wasn’t happening prior to Tesla. You can actually attribute that move to electric to Tesla, as other car companies felt they needed to compete with them or be left behind.

On the other hand, you can’t attribute all AI data centers to Elon musk, he’s not responsible for AI in general. It only really makes sense to blame them for the percentage of carbon emissions generated by xAI. I’m having trouble finding any source to pinpoint what percentage that might be, but it’s very likely that xAI makes up for less than 10% of the global AI data center power consumption, probably much less.

Ah, rather than meaningful data, you want anecdotal data points.

I understand now.

Australia makes up 1.7% of the English speaking world, so you can assume it directly affects that percentage of Lemmy users (when posting in English).

I would argue everybody has benefited from the electric car revolution.

Air quality is better with more EVs. Before Tesla, EVs we’re actively being suppressed by big oil companies, auto companies were being discouraged and disincentivised to make them.

But that’s a different company from SpaceX, if the question is how has SpaceX made life better? It’s probably a lot harder to find positives there. But there are some things that were definitely good. If not for the crew dragon we wouldn’t have had a way to continue supplying the ISS, we almost certainly would have had to deorbit it years ago if the falcon 9 never flew (And in fact there were official plans to do exactly that).

Certainly some people have broadband through starlink in places where it was never an option before. I remember when I first went from dialup to cable Internet, it made my life better.

I’m not saying musk is a good guy, just that his companies have had a lot of effects, some of them positive.

If you say so

I’d try not to think about what I would do if I found a turtle flipped on its back.

Didn’t recognize the image, not at all.

I’ve heard of the name Robbie Williams… And I’m pretty sure he’s a musician. That’s as much as I’ve got.

Can’t say if I’ve ever heard his music.

To be fair, a year ago I could have said the exact same thing about Taylor Swift. But you know, now I’ve heard “shake it off”, so I can recognize 1 song. I still wouldn’t recognize her face.

Oh wow, now that’s some powerful wishful thinking!

Sure, who knows, it could happen!