HeyJaredNilles on Climate, Environment and Information Technology
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Taming the new kid on the block – Part 3 (opens the original)
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BackgroundIn the early days of the aerospace industry, I was first an officer in the US Air Force, then an engineer in the aerospace industry ending as a midlevel executive in The Aerospace Corporation, technical advisor on space programs to the US Department of Defense. Throughout that period my job was to monitor and evaluate the activities of several companies in the industry including time advising NASA. I have a decade or two of experience applicable to Artificial Intelligence developments.
Taming the new kid on the block: Part 2 (opens the original)
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Previous episodeIn my last post I suggested that people should view Artificial Intelligence, AI, as they would a small child who is still learning about the world. It is attempting to develop a coherent picture by sucking up huge quantities of text from the internet and other sources. One problem with that has been that the general internet text content has many departures from describing reality. Already it has shown that it has been too loosely controlled.That post was a little less than a mon
Taming the new kid on the block (opens the original)
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A few days ago I received an email from a dear friend that said:I remember when I was living in LA and my mother and I came over to dinner at your house, we had a discussion about technology. I asked you about your thoughts and predictions regarding the future, and you said that the most dangerous development will be when technology will be able to learn how to improve itself without human intervention. That prediction has come true with the recent news about Anthropic going “rogue” and hacking
US U-turns on Future (opens the original)
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It has been brewing for some while that the vaunted US automobile industry has turned its back on its own future. There are three culprits involved in this volte-face: the industry itself; the Trump administration; and the fossil fuel industry. That is: stubbornness; obliviousness; and self-preservation, respectively, are the reigning virtues.All this is covered in detail in The New York Times Magazine article by Matthew Shaer: “The American E.V. Has Been Crushed”. Shaer recounts how the Big Thr
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