My neighborhood in SF, except for my block, is always thick with humanless Waymo vehicles. In tonight's rush hour I saw my first humanless Waymo on a highway, on 101, driving north to the city around the 280 interchange. I first took a ride in autonomous mode in a Waymo (then
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Watson’s Jeopardy Victory Parallels Modern AI Language Models
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Grok chatbot generates fake headlines, LLMs prone to confabulation
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@mattbinder reports on fake headline on eX-twitter generated by its chatbot Grok, and how more information here will be generated by an LLM which is, as one must expect if one knows how LLMs work, an avid confabulator (others call it hallucination). As often, hubris about the -
John Carpenter’s Dark Star: 50 Years Later and AI Dialog
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John Carpenter's first movie ($60k budget) was released 50 years (and a few days) ago. Dark Star. "Talk to the bomb." "Teach it phenomenology." Echoes of 2001. The bomb's dialog could today be generated by an LLM, I think, coupling together sort of related ideas from philosophy
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Amazon Fresh Failure and the Third Law of Robotics
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Amazon Fresh failure. My third law of robotics, shared here yesterday is:
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Three Laws of Robotics and 50 Million Robots Sold
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My three laws of robotics. The companies that I have founded have sold 50+ million real robots to real customers; research robots, home cleaning, nuclear power plant inspection, military ground robots, upper body humanoids in factories, and now at http://
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Startup pivots from crypto to AI, seeks $2B valuation
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I'm sure the founding team has a well thought out strategy to build a real and valuable business. Founded in November, now seeking $2B valuation. "first conceived of as a crypto company but pivoted as AI took over Silicon Valley" —
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Europa Clipper: Life Detection More Likely Than AGI
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Europa Clipper, launching Oct 2024, reaches Europa (Jupiter) in 2030, *may* be able to detect life if life is there. Should it do so I will find it much less surprising than if we have AGI by then despite what NVIDIA CEO might predict. Same for 2040, 2050, or any 20xx.
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Musk’s Self-Driving Timeline Shifts Again After Years of Predictions
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My brain hurts trying to figure this out. Headline: "Elon Musk Says It Will Be A Decade Before Most Cars Are Self-Driving — There Is A More 'Immediate Concern' At Hand". From the guy who has said every year for ten years that self driving will be here by the end of the year, the
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Software Engineering Automation: A 1970s Promise Still Unfulfilled
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I’ve been around long enough to remember when we were 3 to 5 years away from automating software engineering in the 1970’s. E.g., Waters & Rich.