>> ChatGPT 3.5 is already a general AI based on the old definition
> It's not. It's a query-retrieval system that can parse human language.
And humans aren't general AI either. They're just DNA replicators. It is very obvious when you realize that humans weren't designed to be intelligent. They were just randomly iterated through an environment which selected for maximum DNA replication.
Until you have a higher being which explicitly designs for intelligence, you'll just get things like LLM query-retrievals, or DNA replicators.
> See the recent deals where it’s been used as a political bargaining chip; it still ended up being a very desirable and capable platform from my understanding.
From a european perspective, I can tell you that the mood has shifted 180 degrees from "buy American fighters to solidify our ties with the US" to "can't rely on the US for anything which we'll need when the war comes".
While there are several comparable European alternatives, many countries put their bets on the F-35 a long time ago. It is very much a part of this discussion.
I’m from one of those countries, and I can assure you a lot of people would now have preferred that we went with an EU competitor instead.
What comparable alternative is available today? None of the European companies has a production 5th generation aircraft nor the integrated sensing capabilities. This is what is driving the incredible demand despite misgivings. You can't survive in a near peer combat environment without it.
Countries are buying it because it is the only game in town for certain high-value capabilities, not because they necessarily like the implications of there being a single seller of those capabilities. For better or worse, the US has been flying these for 30 years and has 6th generation aircraft in production. Everyone else is still figuring out their first 5th generation offering.
Closing that gap is a tall order. Either way, European countries need these modern capabilities to have a capable deterrent.
I'm no expert, but the narrative is that it really depends what you need them for. And keep in mind that joining the jet fighter programme also means joining the development of it, enacting a certain amount of influence through your funding. For example, it is conceivable that a sufficiently upgraded Gripen tailored to our needs would be just as effective (which aren't really dogfighting, as I understand it), and cheaper.
Anyway we're all just crossing our fingers that the US is just temporarily insane and will eventually come to its senses. What else can you do.
> It is impossible for a simulink model to accidentally type `i > 0` when they meant `i >= 0`
The Simulink Coder tool is a piece of software. It is designed and implemented by humans. It will have bugs.
Autogenerated code is different from human written code. It hits soft spots in the C/C++ compilers.
For example, autogenerated code can have really huge switch statements. You know, larger than the 15-bit branch offset the compiler implementer thought was big enough to handle any switch-statement any sane human would ever write? So now the switch jumps backwards instead when trying to get the the correct case-statement.
I'm not saying that Simulink Coder + a C/C++ compiler is bad. It might be better than the "manual coding" options available. But it's not 100% bug free either.
> you guidance inevitably falls out of the context window
Yes, for a pure LLM session.
But using GitHub Copilot, the agent server picks out what it thinks is your most important rules, and inserts them as part of the context before running each new prompt.
So it becomes a sort of "long-term memory" outside of the context window.
You can also write your own copilot-instructions.md which is also inserted into the context window.
> The order defines Class M1 vehicles as “those falling within class M1(a) and class M1(b) as specified in Schedule 1 of the Vehicle Classes Regulations, which refers to another bit of UK legislation.
> Oxford’s congestion charge is almost certainly enforced by cameras that scan your number plate. An ox-drawn cart doesn’t have a number plate, so it won’t be charged. Other vehicles like a Renault Twizy or Reliant Robin do have number plates, so they’ll be charged even though they’re technically exempt.
So there's not much to it: Plates are scanned -> the number is checked in the vehicle registration database -> not class M1(a) or class M1(b) -> no charge.
This goes for ox carts, Twizys and Reliant Robins.
But if a vehicle is required to have a number plate, and doesn't (potentially an ox-cart), then you won't be charged for the congestion charge, but you will get charged for something entirely different
I get that the article is light hearted, but given how easy it is to confirm that yes cameras reading number plates is indeed how the system works, I don’t understand taking the time to write that article and not bothering to go further than guessing “almost certainly enforced by cameras that scan your number plate”.
In 1971 there where ships with almost twice the displacement of the Dali.
They weren't freight ships destined for Baltimore, but it wasn't hard to imagine future freight ship sizes when designing the bridge in the early 1970s.
The London sewer system was designed in the 1850s, when the population was around two million people.
It was so overdesigned that it held up to the 1950s, when the population was over 8 million. It didn't start to become a big problem until the 1990s.
Nethack 1.3c, maybe. The first release, I mean, the inmediate one after Hack 1.0.3 under BSD's.
That with a lot of patience. Nethack 3.4.3... I doub't it even DOS could handle it with 640k and a 286.
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is." NY Governor Charles Evans Hughes, 1907.
No English sentence is without ambiguity in its meaning. If a controversy over meaning arises on a matter as important as law, we cannot function as a nation on the basis of, "Aw, everyone knows what they meant...".
Whether the courts are currently too flexible is a matter of opinion, and unless you get nominated personally to the SCOTUS, an inconsequential one.
>> Executive orders cannot overrule the Constitution.
> I would hope this is a fairly universally held position, not so partisan.
I agree. I think the constitution limits both the executive and the legislative branches.
> how will they feel if the next administration decides to pull the same stunt with the 2nd?
The 2nd amendment has already been overridden by federal laws without a constutional amendment.
The 2nd used to mean that the states has a right to let their citizens arm themselves privately with military weapons. The federal government was forbidden by the 2nd to interfere with this.
I'm from Europe and fine with the very restrictive licensing we have here.
But it looks very shortsighted to wildly re-interpret the constitution far outside of the original meaning, instead of passing new amendments.
> The 2nd used to mean that the states has a right to let their citizens arm themselves privately with military weapons
In particular, at the time that it was written, it meant arm themselves with military weapons for the purposes of military action. That's what the contemporary use of the term "bear arms" was understood to mean. Try to find any mention of self-defense from back then. It wasn't what they were thinking about.
Or look at this earlier version: “A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person.”
That conscientious objector clause at the end certainly gives some context to the discussion.
The modern interpretation of the second amendment is very different.
> In particular, at the time that it was written, it meant arm themselves with military weapons for the purposes of military action. That's what the contemporary use of the term "bear arms" was understood to mean. Try to find any mention of self-defense from back then. It wasn't what they were thinking about.
That's what I meant too. I didn't bring up self-defense, did I?
The 2nd amendment protects the states' right to build up their own state militias by allowing their citizens to arm themselves with military weapons. It forbids the federal government from interfering with this.
> The modern interpretation of the second amendment is very different.
Yes. The federal "assault weapons ban" is completely incompatible with the 2nd amendment.
This was pushed through without a new amendment. Instead people used linguistic acrobatics to re-interpret the meaning of the 2nd amendment.
It would have been a lot easier today to shut down any attempts to re-interpret the 14th amendment if we hadn't started down this path with the 2nd.
> It's not. It's a query-retrieval system that can parse human language.
And humans aren't general AI either. They're just DNA replicators. It is very obvious when you realize that humans weren't designed to be intelligent. They were just randomly iterated through an environment which selected for maximum DNA replication.
Until you have a higher being which explicitly designs for intelligence, you'll just get things like LLM query-retrievals, or DNA replicators.
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