It’s a sad reality that it can now be debatable which is worse. But here we are.

But Beijing, including Chinese leader Xi Jinping himself, has also spoken about the risks posed by AI. China must “balance development and security”, and introduce and improve relevant laws and ethical guidelines, and strengthen prevention of risks, to “safeguard the interests of the people and national security”, state security minister Chen Yixin wrote on Sunday.

This is true I’ve read articles about how the Chinese government is working on legal models to make AI “safe for children”.

It’s ironic in these times of asymmetric warfare beating traditional war machinery at a fraction of the price.
It’s kind of the same the Chinese is doing on AI. USA is building huge datacenters concentrated around the forecasts for less than a handful of AI companies. While China is building AI into everything, and are working on making AI work decentralized to be useful in way more task specific circumstances and way cheaper.

Maybe the 2 can coexist? But I think the American approach is overkill, and a lot of people will lose a lot of money they invested in that shit.

So I don’t think the competition from China is designed to be malicious or disruptive, it has grown out from a different set of circumstances and necessity, because USA has been denying China the necessary chips to perform well with the American approach. Making it near impossible for China to work with American companies especially suppliers. Which China did until American politicians ruined it.

China is building AI for everybody to use everywhere. While USA is attempting to monopolize AI services within monolithic services controlled by a few gigantic companies.

I think safety is also easier to implement with the Chinese model, that doesn’t attempt to create AGI or Strong AI as we used to call it. But is creating AI that works well for what it was designed for.

We bought a cheap flir for Android way back when that was new. I bet they’ve gotten both way better and cheaper.

It’s amazing how good modern cameras are in low light.

There are still situations where mirrorless cameras are not as ideal.

In similar price range?

OK, that I can understand, it may feel subjectively nicer, but there are things you can’t do technologically with an SLR, like for instance utilize the light sensitivity of the digital sensor for low light photography.

The latency between what you see and when the picture is taken is mechanical, using the viewfinder on a SLR gives zero latency while using it, but when you press the trigger, there is a latency you will never see.
With a high FPS screen for the viewfinder, the latency can easily be way below human perception.

Completely irrelevant to the issue. Moving away from using mirrors has nothing to do with what lenses you can use.

DLSRs are a budget option usually compared to a Mirrorless Camera

No SLR is the ones with the mirror. DSLR are digital with a mirror. And they are definitely not “budget”, they are the high end. Except today on a high end digital camera the mirror is not necessary as you can use the sensor for the viewfinder instead.

Yes they can. the technical difference is only in how the viewfinder works.

You are probably comparing a high end DSLR with a low end digital camera.
There is no reason why there should be noticeable latency on a high end digital camera. In fact the response time can be even shorter than with DSLR that has a mechanical mirror.

What? Why didn’t they do that a decade ago? DSLR is freaking useless with a digital camera. But apparently other brands still have them too? But why use DSLR when you can get a more exact image representation from the sensor? Seems like it’s based more on tradition than actual usefulness.

Of course if you make an old retro film camera, the system is still useful. But my guess is that is a very small niche market. It’s inferior in every way and more expensive and time consuming.

Some times good news arrive from the most unexpected places.

Though APD fired Eder on July 17, prosecutors officially refused to move forward with felony stalking charges in the case.

Typical, they are looking out for their own.

Because of that legal classification, the victim said the county attorney’s office initially told him it would be difficult for him to access standard victim advocacy services.

WTF??

Isn’t most of it copying what other sites do like Facebook?
I think they are doing it so they can better monetize it, and they are under the delusion that they have as much leverage as Facebook does.

Facebook does it and gets away with it, because it has an actual practical use for some people that is hard to replace.
Reddit on the other hand is nothing more than a glorified forum. So for reddit it may be stupidity, because they don’t understand the limits of what they can do without destroying the site.

I bet the login requirement is to prevent scraping, to force companies that want to use it for AI training to pay.
But I’m no expert, maybe that doesn’t even work?

But for sure it’s an attempt to increase the value of the data that is on reddit, and to improve monetization.
It seems to me that that has been the only goal for reddit for years.

But maybe I’m wrong, maybe reddit will actually manage to figure out ways to monetize the site without killing it, where for instance Twitter failed although they were getting closer near the end.

Again!
IDK how many times I’ve seen similar headlines. But it’s a lot.

A simple google search shows me more than 5 studies already on the first page.

AFAIK that’s about 2 weeks revenue. IDK what their profit margin is, but I bet it’s high.

Babylon 5 is one of the best SciFi TV shows ever made.

Even if they achieve AGI they can’t control it themselves, because that would be slavery.

Apparently they are even more insane than Elon Musk!