And it sounds like it’s not just batteries. This has applications for memory and data storage (though I’m just parroting what they said). We’ll see what happens in the next decade or two!

Yes. Researcher said 10 years (probably at the earliest), but I’m more of an “at all” kind of person. I like celebrating scientific achievements for their own sake, because it’s something we humans figured out.

Yeah, one of the researchers said 10-ish years. Which is fast for new tech but slow for life.

Super cool. I hope this goes somewhere

Not really caught. The devs intentionally connected it to specific systems (like other servers), gave it vague instructions that amounted to “ensure you achieve your goal in the long term at all costs,” and then let it do its thing.

It’s not like it did something it wasn’t instructed to do; it didn’t perform some menial task and then also invent its own secret agenda on the side when nobody was looking.

How do you ask someone to starve when they have a legitimate alternative?

I know this was more of a rhetorical question, but for anyone who is legitimately asking this question: you show them that it’s not actually a binary choice. There’s options like communism and unionization that can both protect them and feed them.

I dunno. I’ve never met the narc, and I already don’t feel like he’s on my side.

It may be Florida, but let’s not forget that they also (rightly) ruled against that lady who shot that 17yo black kid through her door, citing the same law as her defense.

I hope Spotify gets all they deserve from that decision.

If you’re on Android, I use AntennaPod for all my podcasts. It’s FOSS that pulls from all the various podcast sources; I have yet to run across a podcast I couldn’t add to my rotation

If you’re ever looking to cut out Spotify completely, maybe see if that fits what you need.

Gotcha.

The idea of a large public instance rubs me the wrong way, since it leads to behavior like that.

Could you explain that idea in more detail? I’m not really sure I understand how that would work in practice.

They can. And if at any point it becomes untenable, you can just archive whatever you host, shut down your instance, and put the videos up for download somewhere.

“While this research is still in its early stages and there is substantial room to improve agent and environment generation capabilities, we believe that Genie 2 is the way to solve the structural problem of training embedded agents safely and at the same time. time to achieve the breadth and generality necessary to move towards AGI [Artificial General Intelligence]” reads a blog post about the Google tool.

Translation: Invest now, and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

I do hope they get somewhere with this idea, because novel energy storage that’s clean is always a good thing to pursue, but ever since I first saw this idea back in the mid-2010s, it’s never materialized due to unforseen issues when it scales up to real-world use.

We already have gravity batteries. This “block tower” type doesn’t work in practice (no matter how many times they try it), because as they grow in size, they are subject to natural forces like wind, and that makes stacking the blocks safely a big challenge.

I’ll be happy to eat my words if somebody can make this a viable solution, but this isn’t a new concept, and this particular style has never worked so far.

Spoilers are hit or miss, I think. Half the time, I don’t even see people using the tag correctly (e.g. missing the closing portion, putting the spoiler in the warning part, etc.), so I dunno if it’s user error or app developers not implementing it correctly. It definitely doesn’t render on Boost for Lemmy.

Because there’s no money or power to be made through empathy.

Christmas is the best time to buy storage and other electronics. The best sales are usually then, historically.

The bubble popping doesn’t have to do with its staying power, just that the days of, “Hey, I invented this brand new AI that’s totally not just a wrapper for ChatGPT. Want to invest a billion dollars‽” are over. AGI is not “just out of reach.”