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This a joke, right? RIGHT?!

There's an obvious tradeoff between range and "flight" time, but if you ask your favorite AI it will do some napkin math for you that shows a 4 cold gas thruster system with a 3 foot diameter COPV (at pressures attainable by an onboard compressor) could hover a ~4000 lbs vehicle for a few seconds.

Landed on it like 3 clicks in and immediately closed the page.

Came here to post this, though I do have concerns about what will happen when very cyber-capable models are small enough to form a self-replicating worm...

> At least, they do until they wear their tyres to the point they disintegrate while driving

I don't think anyone who knows tires wear out thinks Teslas have special tires that don't wear.

> A mechanically illiterate public coupled with effective marketing is a dangerous combo when they're flying around in 2 tonne boxes still filled with wear parts.

Good news: Teslas will tell you when you do need to do the little maintenance that is required, including worn tires.

I believe it's the only, or at least first, car that measures tire wear by comparing GPS distance traveled to wheel rotations, accounting for tire pressure.

They need brakes changed far less often due to regenerative braking.

No, and if you are you’re not familiar with how SpaceX operates.

Plus, VLEO (<400km) is only really economical at scale with Starship, or at least Falcon 9. Without SpaceX no one would be using it anyway.

Pretty sure the majority reaction to this article is not what the author expected. He should probably refrain from w̶h̶i̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ writing about his job publicly.

So... an even more intelligent LLM.

But it does beg the question, could Anthropic and OpenAI make a ton of money by using their best models to trade before giving them to the public? It would probably be a deeply unpopular move.

"As part of developing the secure digital negative, PCC computes a confidence score that assesses whether the image has the physical characteristics expected of raw output from our camera sensors. Before the developed reference image is signed, PCC sends the photo GUID, sensor ID, and this confidence score to a companion service, which records them and updates the running score associated with that sensor."

I wouldn't be surprised if it's also possible to detect the differences between a photo of a real scene and a photo of a monitor or printout displaying a photo of a real scene, given they have the raw sensor output.

Not sure if they're doing anything like that.

Sounds like a great use of AI.

Presumably some of the proofs will have applications beneficial to humans beyond impressing other mathematicians, and AI will surface them, or use them directly.

Kind of missing the point.

"which is when I said that I did not understand why one would risk their career [over unfounded accusations]. Genuinely, at that moment, I was trying to care for him"

"Our aim was to see whether our system was also capable of this impressive feat"

"OpenAI's intention was to do everything possible to celebrate their mathematical achievements and the heroic efforts that they made on Euler"

For some reason I have a hard time believing people when they use language like this.

Move fast and break other peoples' things.

Fair. My less cynical take is Burning Man made the choice that what they had created should be experienced by lots of people, even at the expense of it being a little less cool or counter-culture.

Personally I think the world is a little better off by it going somewhat mainstream.

It’s what you make of it and who you surround yourself with.

Some people treat it like a music festival and chase DJs the whole week. Some people immerse themselves in the rest of the culture.

The demographics have definitely been skewing wealthier over time, but it’s still around 50% under $100k income and 10% over $300,000 according to the (admittedly unscientific) census.

https://blackrockcitycensus.org/sociodemo

It was better next year anyway.

It’s inevitable cool and interesting things will evolve, and the people there early will bemoan how it used to be cooler.

https://journal.burningman.org/2016/10/philosophical-center/...

Or maybe "rectum".

Is there a good way to auto switch between models for planning/implementation?

> As I age I realize you need to entice the user with more value and service - anew features

Is this true of operating systems for most people?

Personally I’d take macOS from 15 years ago (with security bug fixes and new hardware support, assuming modern apps still worked, but no new features) over today’s Windows any day.

If they take actions that would have further prevented or limited this attack then it seems like a good form of advertising to me.

Unitree is a huge well known company. You think they'd fake this?

I don't understand. You will ask it for something you want, and instead of needing to pay a the team of people with expertise, it will just do it for you.

Someone will still need to ask for something (or maybe it will just run autonomously making things it thinks we'll like) but it won't require any expertise in the field.

Then they should give grants of tokens to famous mathematicians.

EDIT: oh, they do offer grants of $1000 of API credits to researchers https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10139500-researcher-acce...

> free and low-end eventually wins

Apple, the world's second most valuable company, seems like a counterexample.

I can see two reasons American companies might want to train models they give away for free:

1) They sell compute: chips (Nvidia), data centers (AWS, Microsoft, Google, SpaceX, etc), or even end-user device manufacturers like Apple (e.x. M7 rumored to have 1.5TB of unified memory). If Jevon's paradox holds, then cheaper (or free) models means more demand. But compute is likely supply-constrained for years anyway.

2) Their product isn't AI but depends on AI being cheap, or they don't want competitors to capture that value, i.e. "commoditize your complement" https://gwern.net/complement

It probably doesn't make sense for these companies to invest a lot of money training models that will be obsolete in a few months anyway. When progress starts to plateau I'd expect more companies to start training models they give away for free.

Yes, that’s what the parent comment meant by “there is going to be a ton of new float fairly soon”