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jspankon SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles

you don't store TBs of video footage... You process it and store the instances of each object/license plate detection.

jspankon GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack

In your scenario there were still individuals accountable for the decisions and their outcomes.

How are you supposed to say why a machine learning model produces different outputs from the same input? It's just a black box.

jspankon A growing number of scientists are convinced the future influences the past

Reminds me of the Tralfamadorians from Slaughterhouse-Five. They are able to see in four dimensions so humans appear as fetuses at one end of the four-dimensional person and dying at the other end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tralfamadore#Slaughterhouse-Fi...