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It doesn't have to be the entire video feed. it could be snapshots from a specific direction. If millions use it, there's a good chance even a handful of snapshots from each user at a location that thousands of people pass by could get it mapped better than how they currently do.

There's a number of things that are alarming me about this, but I'll focus on one thing: the privacy implications. Not just for the user, but for those who will appear in the pictures that Google will be - for sure - ingesting for the purpose of crowdsourcing street view imagery. Suddenly we have this platform that will be capturing millions of faces and potentially know where people have been even if they don't use the app.

Not to mention that this type of app is treating people as incapable of following directions and it opens up the possibility of new avenues of advertising. Google already keeps an archive of your whereabouts and can even tell when you get in and out of a car. Just imagine wielding your phone around and getting "special offers" for that store you go by but never walk into.

All the robots were the same AI and it effectively killed off humanity because it thought that we were not good enough. When a machine starts killing us off because of dubious and intrinsically evil and selfish reasons, then I can't think it's benevolent.

Yeah,and that's the point I was trying to make about right now. But at some point we'll find ourselves in the position of having created general intelligence. Be it smarter than us or not. In the case of this model, it "could accurately simulate how the universe would look if certain parameters were tweaked [...] even though the model had never received any training data where those parameters varied."

This means that it somehow was able to figure something specific out based on data that had nothing to do with it. Whether by accident or because there's a correlation that we haven't yet figured out, this model was able to understand it. And that's amazing and scary at the same time.

AI scares me. Even though I've used neutral networks and even more complex models/networks in projects and have a fair understanding of how they work, they still scare me a lot. Even though we are far away (supposedly) from creating a sentient AI, I can't help but think that AI will turn into something like "I am Mother" rather than C-3PO.

And yes, I understand that AI and machine learning can help us in ways that will advance our abilities in medicine, science, etc but we're human. if something can be used for evil, we should be sure that that will be attempted. We, as a species, have an annoying need of being the first and having control of everything. Only that AI may, in the future, be uncontrollable.

Same here.

Thank you for linking this.

The bottomline is that I've seen it happen in real life, to people in my social circle and family.

I wrote a reply to another comment that addressed something similar. The best way I can create a correlation in the real world is this way: If you go to a restaurant with 20 choices it takes people much longer to order something as opposed to a restaurant that can fit their menu on one page.

It's some psychological paradox, or research, that I can't remember. Someone actually replied with a TED talk that touches on this matter.

I don't have tangible information, but what I'm referring to is what I know from experience in my social circle. Maybe, as you say, my perspective is distorted in some way. However, 15 years ago if you wanted to meet someone you had to go out and talk to people, which is hard and you're more open to hearing someone out. Today you open an app and swipe into oblivion and no one seems good enough. I've heard many people say that; both men and women. I've had people show me perfectly nice looking people they met through online dating and they either swiped right or rejected them after one date because they weren't good enough.

And again, it's important to marry someone you want to marry and not marry just because you're getting older or for the sake of it. Those marriages, more often than not, end in divorce. But I see a lot of people either using Tinder as a way to get as many one night stands as possible, or swiping away looking for someone perfect who they'll never find. I also know people who developed severe depression because they were on the receiving end of perpetuated ghosting.

I am, by no means, saying that online dating hasn't worked for people, but it just seems like it's done more harm than it's done good.

I'm supposed no one has mentioned the - sort of - deterioration in our relationships. back in the day it used to be a lot easier for two people up meet, fall in love, get married and have kids. I'm not saying that there weren't any forced marriages, but that's not my point. In the age of tinder we are exposed to more and more people and possibilities. So basically it seems like the average Joe and Betty keep holding off for the perfect mate, when chances are they already rejected them. I'm just observing that the typical meets are decreasing rapidly and could be to, at least partially, blame.

Still, the notion of shaken geologists because of earthquakes is pretty funny.

Greek has funny animal noises. Dog: γάβ (yav - but pronounce the y as yearn). Chicken: πάκ πάκ πάκ (pak pak pak). Bird in general: τσίου (tsiou - pronounced kind of like chew).

This is an interesting project. Is there a way to save the produced model, because I didn't see anything in the examples?

This looks pretty cool, although it's missing a little more explanation on how to actually use it. I think the API section doesn't have enough information.

> Google, the creators of the open source browser Chrome

Uhm... Chrome is positively not open source. Chromium is.

Getting past this technicality, I can't help but wonder what other browser vendors that have forked Chromium did in order to not get blocked.

This. In all fairness an AI could make policy, but probably not good policy. People think anything relating to AI is cool, but forget the scary side of it, like with Gpt-2.

Isn't this a violation of gdpr? And if it is, how have they not been sued yet?

Basically taking care of whatever can't be done through the week. There is also a need to relax, should your job be demanding, but if you have an idea in mind, it's important to spend some time to do some research on it and bootstrap it.

He's earned many peoples' living. He can live 100 lives with that money comfortably. I'm not going to feel sorry for him. This type of thing needs to end.

It was only natural that so many scams came out of the crypto space. It's an unregulated field that's attracting millions of US dollars. Plus, you could steal a bunch and get away with it.

This is what I was going to say. If I was an admin that's what I would've done. I'm actually surprised they hadn't already taken any steps to prevent this kind of fallout.

As for the latter point, ditto. However, I would also avoid searching that kind of stuff simply because I don't want to have such a gruesome image in my head.

High inflation due to government-initiated devaluation has happened even in the US, but it didn't result in a hyperinflation. The Weimar Republic is a good example of a government that got screwed because of this.

What makes hyperinflation unique is that the price is ultimately sunk by the actions of panicked citizens who rush to spend their fiat currency because they think that it won't have value in the coming days/weeks/months. This is like a domino effect and eventually everyone jumps on the bandwagon, thus flooding the market with currency that wasn't circulating or contributing to the GDP.

Hyperinflation usually comes right after a short-lived deflationary period which, in turn, comes after a very long period of high inflation (10-30% typically). You can clearly see the pattern in Venezuela's inflation chart: https://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-hyperinflation-cha...

Because of this $1 equals 206941.00 Venezuelan Bolivar, up from $1=119k Bolivar from a month ago, which in turn was up from $1=10 Bolivar from February (according to Google - not sure how accurate it is).

Venezuela has had a long history of high inflation, much like Turkey. The problem is not that, it's that people lost faith in the currency and all the non-circulated (ie savings or foreign reserves) came into circulation again very fast, flooding the market and ultimately causing hyperinflation.

> and have little diverged since

You clearly know nothing about the differences between the two people. Turks are very different from Greeks on even the level of "looks," let alone culture.

> if you really believe in your idea, you should work full-time on it.

Run away from this type of investor, simply because they no longer understand that believing in an idea and risking homelessness are two very different things that should not be correlated.

Investors want to make their money back, and they have every right to want to do that. But when they say things like that, they either don't understand the difference between the two terms I mentioned, it they simply care about making money and have no interest in your idea whatsoever.

Run. Away.

Greece didn't exist as a united country, but for Alexander the Great, who spent his school years in Athens, and tried to unite all Greek states into one Hellenic country, yes, the history belongs to the Greeks and not a Slavic tribe that found itself in the region 900 years later. Not to mention that they were given a written language by the Greeks of the Byzantine empire.

It doesn't only imply territorial claims over Greece's region, but also the history of the ancient Greek Macedonia, Alexander the great and so forth, which is clearly part of the Hellenic history. Besides publishing official maps that depicted the region of Thessaloniki as a region of their country that was occupied by Greece, they also bluntly used Greek symbols, texts and even antiquities to further their propaganda. This is a far more complicated problem than simply just a naming issue.

That's very interesting. Try to think of what the probability of that happening is.

I was about to comment the exact same thing. It's known for years, now, that they do that. This practice is outlined in the book "Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It," in which the author explains how the NSA has a profile on all (know) Chinese hackers.

This is something I would have definitely used if I were still a student, although I'm not a fan of it being a Chrome extension. I'm still curious enough to test it out.