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Chainedheat t1_j9oaq3o wrote
Reply to Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
Without a “significant ALT & DEL” this is meaningless.
some_random_arsehole t1_j9oanjt wrote
Reply to comment by No-Lab4815 in How good the US will be for living in future for those who will be earning decent?? by [deleted]
Fixed your response… “I’ve worked on some left leaning think tanks and I have definitive knowledge of the subject with advanced degrees in music and English literature. You peasants are clueless, go get an education”
Mash_man710 t1_j9o9fx5 wrote
Reply to comment by pickledswimmingpool in AI Reddit by johnnygetyourraygun
Sounds good, I never liked Dave.
Bezbozny t1_j9o93tm wrote
Reply to Question for any AI enthusiasts about an obvious (?) solution to a difficult LLM problem in society by LettucePrime
To be fair, we're already a society built on cheating. All rich people already cheat. They used natural LLMs called "poor people" to do all their work for them and then just took credit for it. We call those people "CEOs".
Taograd359 t1_j9o8mtk wrote
Reply to comment by dumpitdog in Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
I mean, isn’t the whole point of computer engineering to be constantly making new discoveries so as to make computers more efficient and advanced?
Taograd359 t1_j9o8ivc wrote
Reply to comment by anotherusercolin in Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
Is your cat making too much and not enough noise?
Quantius t1_j9o6cy5 wrote
Reply to Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
"Pay no attention to chatgpt, look over here it's quantum!"
eXponentiamusic t1_j9o5zqk wrote
Reply to comment by Gloriathewitch in Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
The thing about quantum mechanics is that you both understand it and don't understand it at the same time. Until a new article comes out and then your position collapses.
JRsFancy t1_j9o5sp2 wrote
Reply to Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
Explain to me like I'm 5, exactly what computations can quantum computers do that could/will benefit people on a daily basis?
billetea t1_j9o5nqk wrote
Reply to comment by Shineliketheson in Google case at Supreme Court risks upending the internet as we know it by dustofoblivion123
We have a functional legal system and a functional democracy. Who said anything about one person making the decision. We have worked out regulations and laws for centuries - why so little faith now? II don't get how that somehow ends in fascism. How do you think we worked out property laws, libel laws, any law for that matter?
What we currently confront is a small group of extremely wealthy and powerful people who think they stand above the our legal and political system. That needs to end. They are not above either and their platforms need to be brought to account to the legal system and to the people. Their argument that what they've created is somehow a uniquely separate ecosystem to that which the rest of us operates is bullshit.. it's elitism. It's why we had revolutions to devolve power to the people away from kings and others who held individual power over us.
Shineliketheson t1_j9o57xe wrote
Reply to comment by billetea in Google case at Supreme Court risks upending the internet as we know it by dustofoblivion123
So, who gets to decide what is true, what opinion matters, what theory is a conspiracy, etc? What you are proposing is what leads to fascism. Only a few decide all of the above.
pickledswimmingpool t1_j9o4wz4 wrote
Reply to comment by Mash_man710 in AI Reddit by johnnygetyourraygun
You could ask AI to give you 50 opinions, one from each state. Or give you 500, 10 from each state, randomized by gender, race, income, etc.
Ask it to form an opinion based off the social media comments from your friend Dave and maybe you won't even need to talk to him about an event.
Aspirin_Dispenser t1_j9o4w9j wrote
Reply to comment by mcphilclan in Google case at Supreme Court risks upending the internet as we know it by dustofoblivion123
The same way they functioned before the content served to users on their sites was algorithmically amplified or suppressed. It wasn’t that long ago that Twitter and Facebook were using chronological feeds where content was served purely in the order it was posted. You kept pornography out of your feed simply by not following users that posted it. Back then, the argument that these sites were simply repositories of information posted by users was legitimate because the companies that ran them were doing little more than just serving it to users as it came in with ads interspersed throughout to generate revenue. Now, with social media sites choosing to amplify or suppress content, that argument doesn’t hold water. The content is now curated and editorialized in much the same way that a newspaper or book publisher curates their content. If they want to do that, that’s fine, but they need to be held to same legal standards as any other publisher. Or, they need to stop acting like a publisher and start acting like the simple “repositories of information” they claim to be. They can’t have all the financial benefits of providing curated content along with all the lax legal standards of providing un-curated content.
If being held to those standards means that their business model no longer works, then oh well. But the truth of the matter is that it does work, it just generates less money.
christinasasa t1_j9o4rtf wrote
Reply to comment by Surur in Spiral-welding machine lets engineers build wind turbine towers twice as tall and 10 times faster by Surur
I have a nephew that works at one of these plants in Illinois. He said it's dangerous as hell. There's not much keeping the tower from rolling off the machine and crushing them
Gloriathewitch t1_j9o4n3x wrote
Reply to comment by adisharr in Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
Now you're starting to get quantum mechanics!
Basically, the whole point is it's impossible to understand (currently)
The way these things work is very bizarre.
[deleted] t1_j9o4dk8 wrote
FuturologyBot t1_j9o4cqw wrote
Reply to Spiral-welding machine lets engineers build wind turbine towers twice as tall and 10 times faster by Surur
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Surur:
The first commercial spiral-welded 89-meter wind turbine tower has begun operation, built by GE Renewable Energy and wind turbine producer Keystone Tower Systems.
Spiral welding is when the steel used to make the tower is curled into a cylinder; essentially, these towers are built from meters-wide steel plates. The technique requires only one machine to construct a tower section, and it can produce towers up to twice as tall and 10 times faster than conventional towers.
The manufacturing process uses coil steel – flat-rolled steel that’s been coiled up into a roll or coil shape and allows tapered towers with variable wall thickness to be manufactured from constant width sheets of steel.
The manufacturing equipment completes the joining, rolling, fit-up, welding, and severing of a tower section – and that results in the continuous production of steel tower shells:
Keystone says it can make the lightest, lowest-cost, and most structurally optimized towers in the wind turbine industry.
Keystone is also developing mobile factories capable of building taller towers directly at wind sites.
Production is now being ramped up of spiral-welded towers, with additional deliveries targeted for the first quarter of 2023. They’ll make more towers for the GE 2.8-127 turbine, and they can be used interchangeably with GE’s conventional 89-meter-tall tower. The spiral tower has received a component certification from TÜV NORD for a 40-year lifetime.
See a video about the process here.
Building towers 10x faster, cheaper and onsite should mean a much-increased onshore wind turbine installation capacity, speeding the transition to renewable energy.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/119ubo8/spiralwelding_machine_lets_engineers_build_wind/j9o27fr/
Iwanttolink t1_j9o3i3m wrote
Reply to comment by dumpitdog in Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
Desperate? Google is a giant in the field of machine learning and quantum computing. They literally invented the tech powering ChatGPT back in 2017.
RedBaret t1_j9o2yoj wrote
Reply to comment by Bacch in Google case at Supreme Court risks upending the internet as we know it by dustofoblivion123
People being dumb is still no reason to take down the internet…
FrontalLobeGang t1_j9o2uh8 wrote
Reply to comment by anotherusercolin in Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
Meow meow meow
[deleted] t1_j9o2qkh wrote
Reply to AI Reddit by johnnygetyourraygun
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Surur OP t1_j9o27fr wrote
Reply to Spiral-welding machine lets engineers build wind turbine towers twice as tall and 10 times faster by Surur
The first commercial spiral-welded 89-meter wind turbine tower has begun operation, built by GE Renewable Energy and wind turbine producer Keystone Tower Systems.
Spiral welding is when the steel used to make the tower is curled into a cylinder; essentially, these towers are built from meters-wide steel plates. The technique requires only one machine to construct a tower section, and it can produce towers up to twice as tall and 10 times faster than conventional towers.
The manufacturing process uses coil steel – flat-rolled steel that’s been coiled up into a roll or coil shape and allows tapered towers with variable wall thickness to be manufactured from constant width sheets of steel.
The manufacturing equipment completes the joining, rolling, fit-up, welding, and severing of a tower section – and that results in the continuous production of steel tower shells:
Keystone says it can make the lightest, lowest-cost, and most structurally optimized towers in the wind turbine industry.
Keystone is also developing mobile factories capable of building taller towers directly at wind sites.
Production is now being ramped up of spiral-welded towers, with additional deliveries targeted for the first quarter of 2023. They’ll make more towers for the GE 2.8-127 turbine, and they can be used interchangeably with GE’s conventional 89-meter-tall tower. The spiral tower has received a component certification from TÜV NORD for a 40-year lifetime.
See a video about the process here.
Building towers 10x faster, cheaper and onsite should mean a much-increased onshore wind turbine installation capacity, speeding the transition to renewable energy.
RaccoonProcedureCall t1_j9o1gl1 wrote
Reply to comment by adt in Question for any AI enthusiasts about an obvious (?) solution to a difficult LLM problem in society by LettucePrime
Forgive me for not reading the entire post you linked, but is the plan that this watermarking would not be detectable by the general public out of concerns for “privacy”? Also, has this been implemented with ChatGPT (or do we know)?
Also, it surprises me that someone from OpenAI would acknowledge the shortcomings of their current measures for identifying AI-generated content.
wagner56 t1_j9oau7b wrote
Reply to Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
>say they have found a way of building the technology so that it corrects those errors.
make it work first and then outside a lab before announcing it is actually a 'breakthrough'
A practicle solution scaled to something useful - even if its still in a huge tank of liquid helium