Is it possible to just pump a slurry of corn and various pulp products into dead oil wells?
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You also assume that all the models in use will in fact be retrained.
Generally, this position flies in the face of lived experience. AI is in fact stifling adoption of new things across many industries.
A new platform poses new analytic problems. A new edition of the WHO's classification of skin tumors (1), for example, presents new analytic problems.
The entire music community has been complaining about how old music gets more recommendations on streaming platforms, necessarily making it harder for new music to break out.
It's absolutely fascinating watching software developers come to grips with what they have wrought.
> "eight men and eight women; mean age ± SD: 29 ± 6.4 years; range: 25–52 years"
> "The participants were asked to consume no more than 10 standard alcoholic drinks/week and have no more than one drink on the day before the test sessions."
> "Drug administration timing did not consider the menstrual cycle in females for practical reasons. Four women used a hormonal contraceptive and one was menopausal."
> "Six participants had previously used LSD (1–3 times), eight participants had used methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) (1–5 times), ten participants had previously used a stimulant, including methylphenidate (four participants, 1–2 times), amphetamine (six participants, 1–3 times), and cocaine (two participants, 1–2 times), and one participant had smoked opium (once)."
These are not your standard young, male athletes you'd typically desire for a tightly controlled result.
If the US sent its own troops to invade China today, do you think we be here to talk about it tomorrow? That would be no Cabinet war.
THEY STILL DO!!!!
This is what drives me nuts about our politics: so many people seem to think we can flirt with the sort of nationalism (1) that led us into WWI and WWII. But, friends, that road leads to your death in every direction. Mutually Assured Destruction is still a thing. Nuclear peace only works as long as all parties persistently work toward de-escalation, which can be measured by adherence to consensus and norms. Nationalism is antithetical to that posture. The iconoclast leaders of national populism are rooted in rulebreaking. They also tend to embrace strong foreign policy talk as a short term bolster to domestic support, again, antithetical to de-escalation.
The medical information systems vendors are right up there with health insurance companies in terms of their investment in ensuring patient deaths. Ensuring. With an E.
(1) https://www.cap.org/protocols-and-guidelines/electronic-canc...
So, one possible line of investigation would be a table of mammals, their sleep cycles, their orexin levels, and the numbers of copies of orexin and it's regulators in their genomes. For example: compared to humans, elephants have a lower cancer risk. Turns out they have significantly more copies of p53, a tumor supressor gene (1).
Perhaps a similar, somewhat parallel construct exists: elephants sleep 3-4 hours a night. Maybe they have more orexin? Maybe they have different copy numbers or mutations of the relevant genes in the pathway?
I think you're selling "it is about jobs, not data" a little short here.
Let me start off by saying I work on AI for healthcare, my first IRB protocol that contemplated computer vision is from 2012. I'm not an OG, but I've been working on this stuff for a while, and I'm very bullish.
On the flipside, my wife is a pediatric occupational therapist, she works with autistic kids. Kids in the Bay Area. Her clients are Google machine learning engineers. The major issue with jobs is not so much the monetary value of the work, although that's an important secondary outcome.
Humans need an occupation. Occupation is the purpose of life. Long before money was a thing, we needed purpose. Even kings and their courtiers, before money, needed occupations. We need to be doing something. People change their occupations from time to time. It doesn't have to be a job. It could be a hobby, in some cases. Even kids want to contribute. Even infants, as soon as they understand and can, will reach out to console or delight their caregiver. But we need to feel like we are giving back. Our minds and muscles atrophy if we are not occupied.
If we attach everything to solar power and let the machines run the world, we'll end up some version of the blob people in Wall-E's Buy n Large spaceships. The reward at the end of the movie was the people getting off the space ship, thanking the robots for giving them back purpose, mainly to restore their planet.
Purpose and occupation are about so much more than money.
Mike Montero would like a word
"Who in this room is now, or has at some time, been in creative services?
"Who here has, at some time, had trouble getting paid by a client for work they were doing?
"Raise your hand if any of these are familiar to you:
"'We ended up not using the work.'
"'It's really not what we wanted after all.'
"Alright. Who's familiar with Goodfellas?
"Alright. 'We got somebody internal to do it instead.'
"'Fuck you. Pay me.'"
"'Fuck you. Pay me.'"