timmillea

'Basis points' is unnecessary jargon taken from the financial world to make us think that they have some intelligence.  "110bps, or basis points" is best just put as 1.1%. 

 No jargon please. We are not idiots. 

I worked on LOLITA (Large-scale, Object-based, Linguistic Interactor, Translator, and Analyser) at the University of Durham (UK) in the 1990's. Half my undergraduate education was in AI. Then.  I worked in artificial intelligence before anyone I knew knew what it meant. I think they still don't. "Simulating successful human, external behaviour" - like composing a great symphony, writing and directing a film, and so on. Not cheating in politics or killing people. 

LOLITA read the Wall Street Journal everyday and answered questions on it. It could answer questions in Chinese as easily as English, without any translation. My role was to optimise the 'dialogue' module.

The difference between those efforts and the latest LLMs, and other buzzwords, is that LOLITA attempted to model a deep, semantic understanding of the material while current AI only uses big and now-abundant data to imitate a human response.

As ever in the UK, research funding ran out and no attempt was made to exploit the project commercially. In the US, I feel it would have been a little different and the World may have been different.

Neural net based AI only replicates all the mistakes and failings of the average human. AI can achieve so much more. 

This stunt appears to be self-publicity. Neural nets being trained on big data can only achieve mediocrity at best. Neural nets are never going to be the leap in AI - it is provably impossible. Perhaps this guy ditched out while his going was good and he can get a book/film out of it? 

I graduated from Durham in 1996. Half my degree had been in artificial intelligence, the other half in software engineering. 'Higher intelligence' does not come from copying trends in big data, it comes from evolving things unimaginable, to us. The Luddites have returned to oppose false progress. This guy is a Trump character to provoke. Best ignored IMHO. 

I wish people who write about technology would have a basic education in science. Watt is a unit of power, Watt-hours is a unit of energy. Power = energy/time. A battery's capacity may be stated in Watt-hours, e.g. here, 100Wh. 

The why bother writing 20,800 mAH when AH would be a more appropriate unit, i.e. 20.8Ah? 

These writing traits give the incisive feel that the writer has absolutely no grasp of the subject they are writing about, invalidating the article. 

This discussion demonstrates how well the right-wing media in the US is controlled. 

It is easy to be anti-Russia at the moment because it is waging a popular war against Ukraine. Should I mention Vietnam or Iraq or countless other US interventions, including false-flag to provoke other wars?

But what is that to do with Tim Cook's visit to China, the country, not at war, that supplies most of Apple's products?

The recent Tiktok US Congress debacle was worthy of McCarthy. 

Even dictators govern by consent. How a government obtains that consent is questionable. It still looks very questionable in the US to me - it appears to be a dictatorship of big money.