Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
Na+ batteries are really cool tech, and with a few more iterations of R&D they can potentially replace Li+ batteries, removing the need for rare earth elements that are toxic to people and the environment, dangerous to extract, and more often than not extracted by child slave labor (such as in Xinjiang and Congo).
It doesn’t matter how you feel about China, although framing Na+ as “China’s battery” is problematic for other reasons.
How is pointing out the flaw in your logic “gratuitous hatred”? It doesn’t make any sense that the rationale for calling it “China’s battery” is to make it sound bad, when the article is clearly extolling the virtues of the battery.
Or is it the part where the other commenter brought attention to the working conditions in China? Because that’s not motivated by hatred, but rather class solidarity. How badly do you have to hate Chinese people to believe Chinese workers don’t deserve better conditions? What about ethnic minorities in China who are having their cultural heritage stripped away from them?
Is it because the government officials aren’t white, so you believe they can do no wrong? So you’ll just call any legitimate criticism of them racist? That’s like Israel calling anti-zionism anti-semitic. There’s nothing sinophobic about legitimate criticisms of the PRC.
They were built by Mugatu!
It’s an arms race like any other. Cybersecurity has always been an arms race. You can’t stop developing security patches, cause adversaries will continue developing new exploits.
If AI enables your adversaries to develop exploits faster than human developers can keep up with, then yeah AI will have to be a part of the solution. That doesn’t mean vibe-coding security patches, but it could mean AI-driven pen-testing.
Just like quantum computing. You can call it useless and impractical all you want, but some day someone is going to use it to break conventional encryption. So it would behoove you to develop quantum capabilities now, so that you have quantum safe encryption before quantum-based exploits eventually arise, as they inevitably will…
That’s so idiotic. Either that guy was a total amateur who couldn’t put together that “no shit, if you comment out the lines that do thing, it won’t do thing” or he was completely malevolent and disingenuous and just trying to justify his position by coming up with some crap that the big bosses are probably too stupid to recognize the idiocy of.
Either way, not someone I would want to be doing business with…
It’s not so much about being big shocked that it broke containment. The point of the test was to see whether it would be capable of breaking containment. The fact that it did is taken as evidence that it’s more advanced than previous models, which weren’t able to.
Part of Anthropic’s schtick is that they claim to be developing AI “responsibly,” and “ethically,” and if you read their documents where they describe what they mean by that, part of it is being able to contain their models so that they don’t get out of control.
With the focus lately on agentic environments, and lots of people idiotically giving too much autonomy to their bots, it should be easy to see the importance of containerization. You don’t want to give these things full control of your system. Anyone who uses them, should do so within a properly containerized environment.
So when their experiments show that their new model is capable of breaking containment, that presents some major issues. They made the right call by not releasing it.
Of course, the fact that the experimenters had no formal training in cybersecurity means that their containerization may have had some vulnerabilities that a professional could have mitigated. But not everyone who would use it is a cybersecurity professional anyway.
We need to see oil prices high enough to squash 95-100% of global demand.
Humans can adapt. We have renewable energy. We’ve had 6 years since covid to build a more resilient, sustainable infrastructure. We didn’t. The world went right back to burning fossil fuels, and then some, and have only accelerated since.
Maybe we need another global supply chain breakdown to force us to make up for lost time. Cause we needed to stop burning fossil fuels a decade ago.
I bet we’ll start seeing a lot more electric cars on the road. Too bad so many manufacturers shut down their production!
Okay, that’s hilarious. But I had to do a double-take when it dawned on me that AI has indeed been with us for nearly 5 years now…
I remember in 2021 there was all the buzz about “AI is already here, it’s just extremely flawed still and not even close to ready for use. The government needs to regulate it before some idiotic businessmen do something stupid with it.”
And then the attempted legislation got shot down because it would ostensibly “hamper innovation,” and then the first commercial LLMs hit the scene and then everybody lost their minds.
They can have their logo trademarked, but they can’t go after grannies for calling their desserts “apple pie.”
OpenAI literally goes after people for calling their generative pre-trained transformers “GPT.”
Which wench operates which winch when the winch wench witch’s winch wrench won’t fix the rent worm winch?
Why is this framed as if it’s in any way surprising?
has carved out an image for himself as one of the preeminent AI whisperers of our age
Has he? The only things I ever read about him are that he’s a dunce with too much money at his disposal.
a shortage of expertise that becomes obvious when the CEO mixes up basic AI terms.
Is that why he thinks the acronym “GPT” is a trademark that belongs to his company, even though it existed before they did?
Maybe someone’s developed an open-source firmware solution that you can port to it for self-hosting?
If you’re still searching, razer and corsair both seem to have good options in various styles and spanning different price ranges.
They’re not the only options out there of course, but they’re what I narrowed my choices down to when I was looking not that long ago.
Akko also has one that looks nice if you want something simple without all the extra inputs, but a high DPI/polling rate.
“I’m 37!”
“What?”
“I’m 37, I’m not old.”
“Well I couldn’t just call you ‘man,’ now could I?”
“You could’ve called me Dennis.”
“I didn’t know you were called Dennis!”
“Well you didn’t bother to ask, now did you?”
“Look, can you please just tell me who lives in that castle?”
It would be an interesting experiment if it weren’t such a waste of resources…
I think you mean “winch”
There is no true equality in the world until men can get pregnant
Yeah, a lot of them choose to stay in because they derive a sense of meaning/purpose/job satisfaction from it, and also because civilian life is hard by comparison.
I mean yeah, waking up at 5AM every day sucks, having to stay in shape sucks, being held to strict discipline, conduct, and grooming standards sucks, being told what to do by people who are often dumber than you sucks, having to stand 24-hour posts once a month sucks, having to do annual qualifications and tests sucks, et cetera, but…
Having most of your bills already covered so that you don’t have to think about them is kinda nice, making a steady paycheck with cost-of-living adjustments and continuous growth is kinda nice, having guaranteed 30 days of PTO per year is kinda nice, having medical and dental covered is kinda nice, having a guaranteed place to live (even if you don’t get to choose it or your roommate) is kinda nice, having a chow hall where you can eat three meals a day is kinda nice (even though you technically pay for it when it gets deducted from your paycheck, but you don’t really have to think about that).
Come to think of it, it’s a lot like communism. Actual communism, not the botched attempts we see so often in history.
Of course, now with the whole [gestures at everything] going on, I’m sure the calculus is a bit different. Can’t say what’s going through anybody’s minds right now…
The issue with that is that your range at least needs to make it between charging stations on the highway to be a realistic choice for many people. That might not be a problem in major corridors, but in sparser areas like the US midwest, it’s a legitimate concern.
Doesn’t mean Na+ is bad, it’s just a young technology. In the next few years I expect to see the energy density increasing rapidly.