Recent content by jack action

I just found out my new electric toothbrush is not waterproof. I was shocked.

That is funny. I can imagine technical workers working with AI being more efficient, thus requiring less of them in the work force (or have them work less on technical issues). But I cannot imagine the use of AI leading to unskill workers doing the job. How does one know the job is done...

In the case of search engines, a German court has ruled that the words of AI represent the words of the company:

What about twins marrying twins?

Nuclear fueling itself might even have been easier than that, according to the experts and their knowledge at the time: The experts - about something nobody ever had experience with - didn't know for sure it wouldn't have created human extinction, but they went with it anyway. And they didn't...

TIL about shockwave traffic jams and the fact that they moved backward at a rate of 20 km/h.

Also, even if the weight is evenly distributed when perfectly straight, if the floor is crooked and the stand is leaning, there will be a weight transfer from one side to the other. The following image is an example of the principle with a vehicle. The higher the TV's center of gravity and the...

From the link I gave above, note that the first four classes of intelligent agents are pretty similar, each one having an add-on over the simpler one. The model for the fifth one is completely different, though. This might help reconcile the facts that every automated machine is an agent, and...

To learn more about intelligent agents, Wikipedia has a nice little resume. Those are the classes of intelligent agents: A thermostat would be a simple reflex agent. ChatGPT and the Roomba vacuum are examples of goal-based agents.

There are plenty of cases where limited resources have to be prioritized for one essential need, where the free market is not a good control method. For example, two cities on the banks of the same river, where both cities discharge their sewage into the river because it is cheap, while the...

Could you define those factors and effects you are thinking of instead of letting us guess? These seem to be saying pretty much the same thing. Define what you consider goodness and badness. Going back to the OP, in the following statements, define what you are referring to with problems and...

The AI users should pay for the resources they use, but are you saying that you expect all consumers to pay more in the future for electricity, even if they don't use AI (directly or indirectly)? But what happens if there is a water shortage? Will data centers be seen as just another customer...

OK, let's go over the OP: I don't get where the competition is. Do you really think that if there is a server farm somewhere that uses water for cooling (or any other industry using water for that matter, for any manufacturing reason), and that the local population has trouble finding water for...

@BillTre , you keep putting skeptical reactions to my comments. Regarding the point I want to make: Do you think AI systems have needs to be fulfilled and that they work for their own survival? They do what humans want them to do. If they do something humans don't want them to do, it is...

This is humans managing the extra water they have access to. They will never plant enough trees up to a point where they do not have enough water for themselves, just like building AI systems. Humans control the tree population as if it were a tool. Of course, humans with enough water and who...