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“These failures are the most insidious. But there are also continuous failures of simple programming inadequacy, such as only starting lane changes toward a freeway exit a scant tenth of a mile before the exit itself, that handicaps the system and casts doubt on the overall quality of its base programming,“ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/09/tesla-full-self-driving-requires-human-intervention-every-13-miles/
Yann LeCun, the so-called “Godfather of AI” who currently serves as Meta’s AI czar, accused the billionaire of lying “again and again” about when fully-automated Teslas would arrive. “Elon: ‘I’ve kept lying to you again and again about Tesla’s ‘Full Self Driving’ capabilities for the last 8 years,” the AI aficionado wrote, “‘but you should…
Kanter then brought up how pervasive and routine this corruption has become, that it has infected major economics journals, and that it’s similar to how big tobacco operated in the 1950s and 1960s to hide the link between cancer and cigarettes. Universities, economics journals, and the practice of economics are being fundamentally corrupted. https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-antitrust-chief
It’d be remiss to fault robotaxi companies for having these kinds of safety fallbacks. The problem is that they’re not upfront about the fact that humans are still in the loop, creating a facade of full autonomy that doesn’t actually exist. https://futurism.com/the-byte/self-driving-dirty-secret
Take Lowe’s: over the past five years, CEO Marvin Ellison spent $43 billion on stock buybacks, netting $18 million for himself in the process. Now, Lowe’s has 285,000 employees, half of whom earn less than $33,000/year. Divide Ellison’s $18m among those workers and each of them would net a paltry $126/year. But if you were to share…
They’ll tell you the oil and gas ban, which came into effect six years ago, is to blame. That wilfully ignores how, of the five oil and gas fields that already exist, it has taken an average of 16 years to go from exploration to production. It carefully curates out the fact that gas production…
Even more… it doesn’t even work in a tunnel that Telsa has full environmental control of. Forget open roads. Tesla still hasn’t figured out how to get its vehicles to autonomously drive through Elon Musk’s tunneling venture The Boring Company’s single-lane tunnel. https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-full-self-driving-doesnt-work-tunnel So explain to me why this fucker is allowed to put this…
We’ve gone from the days of #DeleteFacebook campaigns to people seriously making the argument that leaving Twitter/X because of Elon Musk’s ongoing promotion of right-wing political movements to instead post on Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads makes you morally superior. It’s a perverse state of affairs that shows too many people need to remember that Zuckerberg is still a…
It was never civilization destroying… and they knew it. They pumped that angle because regulatory capture was the only moat they could really create. When asked if generative AI would usher in revolutionary economic changes, Acemoglu had a straightforward answer. “No. No. Definitely not,” Acemoglu told NPR. “I mean, unless you count a lot of companies…
Luxo likes to shit on New Zealand. We’re whiny and lack ambition. Well Luxo is a free-rider who doesn’t give anything back. He just extracts. Greg Foran inherited a company that was driven for share price, Luxon inherited a company that was driven for values. Foran has responsibility, but he is now reaping the rewards…
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