This is not new, if you go read mainstream 'romance' novels from the 70s and 80s (particularly the mass-market stuff published by Mills and Boon or Harlequin) a good chunk of the writers specialised … (View Post)

Someone in Ukraine's leadership is smart and knows their history. Blowing up refineries has proven to be a great way to cripple a nation's ability to make war because fuel shortages impose strain on … (View Post)

You can't train self-drivng AI on Street View any more than you could do it on paper maps. Just showing it a road layout (and in the case of Street View an often inaccurate one) is little use. It's m… (View Post)

People seem to think an AI is just a blank void that gets filled up with training, but that's not true. A lot of the behaviour is hard-coded in to the model when it is created. Most of that would nee… (View Post)

The ID card system and database provides the required platform for a social credit system. It comes down to your faith in the government - of whatever party, going forward - to resist the temptation … (View Post)