Always the way. Not a single petition has ever resulted in a change of policy. I don't think the government understands how much anger this kind of dismissive reply causes, it just confirms they will… (View Post)

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)