KevonLooney

The NYC Library is a huge organization. They deserve that money.

Blame Mayor Adams for the budget. He paid millions for new radios for his police buddies. The old ones work fine, also... radios? That's top priority?

So, no one.

That's not an ethnic or religious group. It's a Hitler fan fiction club.

Are you a Desert Storm truther or something? Do you actually remember Saddam's invasion of Kuwait?

The invasion of Kuwait was immediately met with international condemnation, including Resolution 660 by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and economic sanctions were unanimously imposed on Iraq in its Resolution 661.

UNSC Resolution 678 adopted on 29 November 1990 offered Iraq one final chance until 15 January 1991 to implement Resolution 660 and withdraw from Kuwait; it further empowered states after the deadline to use "all necessary means" to force Iraq out of Kuwait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War

Desert Storm was a UN action to protect Kuwait from someone who actually committed and was convicted of genocide: Saddam Hussein.

You didn't provide a source for your definition of "genocide". Here's a better definition:

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people[a] in whole or in part.

In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

There are two important things here:

1. People are targeted based on their membership in a "national, ethnical, racial or religious group". A war doesn't meet the criteria, but a genocide may occur during or after the war is over.
2. It isn't just killing. It's systematic actions taken to destroy a group.

Looks like these are for their factory in Hungary. They are having trouble finding workers because all the ones who can are migrating West.

If they paid more, they could probably still hire people. Obviously those who left want to work. It's hard to believe that these robots are cheaper than workers in Hungary. I think they're just following other car manufacturers who are doing the same thing.

Maybe, but this is giving the AI a lot of help. No one rewrites visual questions for humans who take IQ tests. That spacial reasoning is part of the test.

In reality, no AI would pass any test because the first part is writing your name on the paper. Just doing that is beyond most AIs because they literally don't have to deal with the real world. They don't actually understand anything.

But intelligence is the capacity to solve problems. If you can solve problems quickly, you are by definition intelligent.

the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligence

It can be measured by objective tests. It's not subjective like beauty or humor.

The problem with AI doing these tests is that it has seen and memorized all the previous questions and answers. Many of the tests mentioned are not tests of reasoning, but recall: the bar exam, for example.

If any random person studied every previous question and answer, they would do well too. No one would be amazed that an answer key knew all the answers.

This is why statistics are important. Conservatives will say "that's tokenism! They're not getting jobs on merit!"

My guy, quotas for underserved minorities and women exist because we don't live in a meritocracy. Talent and ambition is dispersed equally. If you are mostly hiring and promoting people like you, that's exactly why quotas are needed.

AI will help us create a better quantum computer which will make a better AI

Current "AI" is just LLMs. They don't need some crazy quantum supercomputer. They aren't improved by more processing power.

They need a ton of data to work at a basic level. There's no reason to think that future programs will just get better on their own. Especially if a lot of data is now LLM generated. They have no capacity to learn on their own through research.

They're also heavy in your pocket and don't fit in a standard cashier's drawer. There aren't enough slots.

The real good idea would be getting rid of pennies and nickels. Those are only useful for giving stores a few extra cents in profit. They set prices at $4.99 instead of $5 so you buy more. Without pennies, they'd have to set the price at $4.90 and lose 9 cents.

A lot of math involves just moving things around until the problem is easier. It's just a bunch of tricks that work for relatively simple reasons. But you just memorize them to make it easier.

Statistics is more like magic than other kinds of math. Like when you have more than 30 random unbiased selections from a population you can start guessing at the composition of the whole, no matter how large it is. The explanations require someone who really knows what's going on.

Then you have modern LLMs that use statistics to produce the next word in a sentence. They can be so complex the designers don't really know why they do what they do. It's just trial and error testing the outcomes.