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Ponti Min's avatar

AI is not there yet. Though it has made a lot of progress in the last 10 years including solving problems that were in the past described as "AI-complete".

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Mick Reilly's avatar

Like it or not Putin / Russia isn't going away, and these are his new chums. The world looks bleak from a Western / Global North position, unless our leaders start acting like grown ups and engage in proper statesmanship. #Trump 🍊 🤦🏻‍♂️

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1932445274519265474?t=34WCbrp7X3dFzn95oxDLPQ&s=19

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DILLIGAF?IDO's avatar

Good point well made, Mick. I had this conversation this week about the Chinese Lab Techs that were found with weaponised fungi spores and arrested. This is flagged by WHO as 'deadlier than Covid' as we simply do not have the drugs to kill off the fungi. Remember during the pandemic the number of people in India that were dying of fungal infections due to their reduced immunity?

"Mucormycosis: India records more than 4,300 'black fungus' deaths"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-57897682

Then RFK Jr goes and sacks the entire CDC vaccine management. There are no grown-ups in the room any more.

https://substack.com/@dilligafido/note/c-124379444

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DILLIGAF?IDO's avatar

Excellent round up Ponti, thank you. I do like this point:

"In future I expect all airbases will put aircraft in hangers. These may well be hardened, meaning that to attack them requires a bigger (and therefore more expensive) missile. Or there could be many more hangers than aircraft, so an attacker will end up attacking lots of empty hangers."

Maybe with solar roofs too to offset power costs? A girl can dream :o)

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Ponti Min's avatar

Solar roofs make sense, yes. Also they provide resilience if the power grid is down, which in a major war it might be.

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DILLIGAF?IDO's avatar

And… they can feed back into the national grid in peacetime and keep energy costs down for oh I don’t know, the people these aircraft are supposed to be protecting? ;o) India is playing around with new designs on this scale with their road building programme- building solar panels over the motorways to a) shield drivers from the hot sun in the day and b) generate electricity for their National Grid. Win-win.

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The 13th Grade's avatar

In reference to the AI bias article, it sounds like the AIs have figured out how to present a superficial rationalization of their biases. Just like humans!

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