Recent content by Algr

I remember the first time a Tesla caught fire, the media acted like no combustion car had ever caught fire before. It's important to not let your world view be ruled only by freak incidents. People do dumb things like this sometimes. The question is how often? An AI that is "twice as safe...

Lions are growing like yellow roses on the wind.

So turning it off with make the internet a completely accurate source of information. 🫤

No one is intelligent all the time. It takes way too much time and caffeine to get my brain to turn on in the morning.

Those are other people. The rules that everyone else had to obey often broke down at the top.

The biggest barrier would probably be the powerful fearing social change. So sadly, the best way to get ideas adopted is to show them as useful for military applications. (Defense, of course.) Everyone has mentioned sanitation, I agree. If the goal is to advance humanity as fast as possible...

Without electricity, mechanical devices would have advanced considerably beyond what was ever made in the real world. But they would be in no way comparable to the devices we actually have now. There is probably some limit to data capacity relative to how strong a material is before reading...

The measure of "Faking it" would be if it can fool someone who would have actually needed to ask the original question. So this aspect of AI can be very dangerous. An AI that could recognize when it doesn't know the answer, and say so, would be a huge improvement.

Humph!

Forum addiction treatment?

Yes, that is what I was going to say.

Moore's law would have this happening in 16-24 years. Once we have the Singularity, (AI tools accelerating chip and software development.) anything is possible. So by the Year 3000, they could change you as easily as pixels on a screen: (Not pictured, excess mass ejected as powder on the...

There is lots of iffy and confused statement in there. Bayer filters have nothing to do with data compression. The data in an 8k stream is not organized into "four 4 K streams", but can be represented in a number of other ways. The use of the word "Invertible" is strange and non-standard. A...

The page that I used could create images, as well as analyzing them. But the results of that were not as good as the local renders I can do with DrawThings on my computer.