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Tesla is recalling all 363,000 US vehicles with its so-called “Full Self Driving” driver assist software due to safety risks, another blow to the feature that is central to the automaker’s business model.

“Full self-driving,” as it currently stands, navigates local roads with steering, braking and acceleration, but requires a human driver prepared to take control at any moment, as the system makes judgment errors. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that, based on its analysis, Tesla’s FSD feature “led to an unreasonable risk to motor vehicle safety based on insufficient adherence to traffic safety laws.” And it warned FSD could violate traffic laws at some intersections “before some drivers may intervene.”

“The FSD Beta system may allow the vehicle to act unsafe around intersections, such as traveling straight through an intersection while in a turn-only lane, entering a stop sign-controlled intersection without coming to a complete stop, or proceeding into an intersection during a steady yellow traffic signal without due caution,” said the recall notice, posted on NHTSA’s website.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/business/tesla-fsd-recall/index.html

into the legal profession. For example, attorneys pay for a legal search of data to determine the likelihood of an appellate court outcome before they will take their case up on appeal. Who, what, how would you know if that data is GIGO ?
There are also "exciting" plans for making AI programs for representation of indigent criminal defendants. So, the days are coming when instead of appealing a prison sentence based on incompetency of one's attorney will be a fight between the State's data system against the people's data system.
Will law school become a data programming education one day?
I hope to retire before that shit starts flying through the courtroom.
Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!

will come into it's own when the wealthy can buy a machine to play the market and the world economies to get wealthier, and then fire all those Harvard MBA's. Then there is only the politicians to have to pay off, for now.

Intelligence in, artificial idiocies out, is not what I consider intelligent. I like my gut's intelligence, if you can stand the smell, but so far it worked well.

Thanks for still being here. Hope all is well around your woods.

peace and love to all.

immediately,

"Self-awareness. In this category, AI systems have a sense of self, which gives them consciousness. Machines with self-awareness understand their own current state. This type of AI does not yet exist.

Would they also have morality?

Oh boy, it gets sorta complicated to think about that. Good that I stopped thinking long ago.

is being used for

I found this to be the money paragraph....ymmv

https://www.uclftr.com/post/blackrock-aladdin-intelligent-finance-why-ai...

II. History of Blackrock’s Aladdin

In 1986 Larry Fink, working at First Boston, made a series of highly profitable trades followed by one massive failure which ended up costing his job, losing over $100 million in a matter of months. Analysis of this failure pointed towards leveraging on technology to avoid future mistakes. Aladdin would be the solution to this problem, possessing massive computing power analysing past data, which would allow Blackrock to build incredibly precise and complex pricing models of almost any asset with historical data.

BlackRock Aladdin’s development is continuing to evolve. In May 2019, eFront was acquired by BlackRock, combining both platforms. The move boosted Aladdin’s end-to-end processing capabilities in various alternative asset classes. Investors now have a holistic understanding of performance drivers of their investment exposures down to the single asset level and can pivot their exposures by dimensions such as geography and sector. The impact of this $1.3 billion takeover of eFront has driven a 30% surge in technology service revenue at BlackRock, totalling $259 million. (McDowell, 2019)

bolded was my emphasis, as stated earlier GIGO, history doesn't
always repeat, especially regarding financial commodities

they are trained on human product/output.

Wanna create a WTFbot? Train a neural net by feeding it the Congressional Record and a selection of national and regional Daily and Weekly newspapers starting with the debates and discussions leading to the creation of the Articles of Confederation. Jeebus whatta mess.

Then there's the problem with outcomes. Who decides whether an outcome is good or bad and at what time and place and for what duration? How to teach that fallacies are invalid but can, all the same, generate a correct conclusion:

All men are mortal
Socrates was a wombat
ergo Socrates was mortal

"You can tell if an electrical outlet is functioning properly by sticking a hairpin in it" is a true statement.

be well and have a good one

Especially in these days of wokeism.

How smart people believe stupid things

Not only does intelligence in the service of wokeism lead to one-sided readings of reality, it also leads to the production of pure fiction. The popular woke myth that sex is a spectrum is often justified on the basis that there’s no single thing that distinguishes all men from all women. Such an abstract explanation is seductive to an intellectual, but beneath the allure it’s just an instance of the univariate fallacy (it’s true that no single thing distinguishes all men from all women, but no single thing distinguishes all tigers from all monkeys either; does this make tigers monkeys?)

Labyrinthine sophistry like “sex is a spectrum” prevails among cognitively sophisticated cultural elites, including those who should know better such as biologists, but it’s rarer among the common people, who lack the capacity for mental gymnastics required to justify such elaborate delusions.

Despite being irrational, wokeism is nevertheless an intelligent worldview. It’s intelligent but not rational because its goal is not objective truth but social signaling, and in pursuing this goal it’s a powerful strategy. People who engage in woke rituals, such as proclaiming their pronouns during introductions, or capitalizing the word “black” but not the word “white,” signal to others that they’re clued-up, cosmopolitan, and compassionate toward society’s designated downtrodden. This makes them seem trustworthy and likable, and explains why wokeism is most prevalent in industries where status games and image are most important: politics, media, academia, entertainment, and advertising.

And don’t forget the people who put Ukraine flags in their bios.

The new thing that drives me nuts is saying that men can get pregnant. Now instead of saying pregnant women, the thing to say is pregnant people. Schools are putting tampon dispensers in men’s restrooms. Gah!

My opinion is that this new wokeism thing is just a farce for further dividing the people so we fight over whether men can actually get pregnant instead of seeing how the parasites are robbing us blind.

I’m constantly asking myself what do I believe is the truth, but is just my conformation bias? I know that I believed a few things 3 years ago that I no longer do, but….?

The standard rationalist path is to try to avoid delusion by learning about cognitive biases and logical fallacies, but this can be counterproductive. Research suggests that teaching people about misinformation often just causes them to dismiss facts they don’t like as misinformation, while teaching them logic often results in them applying that logic selectively to justify whatever they want to believe.

Such outcomes make sense; if knowledge and reasoning are the tools by which intelligent people fool themselves, then giving them more knowledge and reasoning only makes them better at fooling themselves.

It’s funnier than hell that government has decided that it’s the arbiter of what misinformation is when it has a long history of actually lying to us. Don’t you think?

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America’s Two Factions

Basically, on the one side there are: those who believe anything government officials tell them, no matter how absurd. Most of that faction’s senior members used to be people who believed nothing the government told them, but then they got “Woke.” (Bingo!)

Now, they believe that mRNA vaccines are really good for you… that basing all social conduct on skin color will exorcise racism from society… and that sexual confusion is the highest-and-best psychological state of being.

If you try to debate any of these points with them, they’ll block or cancel you. If that doesn’t work, they’ll orchestrate a new episode of political chaos as an excuse to push you around.

Meanwhile, on the other side there are: those skeptical and worried about government overreach, those opposed to meddlesome official censorship, those who resist the manipulation of language to invert and subvert a formerly coherent value-system, those who recognize a hustle when they see it and coercion when they feel it, those who respect the long struggle of mankind to construct a comprehensible view of reality and mechanisms for testing it. Those who insist on a certain degree of personal liberty under a fair and upright rule-of-law.

...of Edwin Black's book, IBM and the Holocaust. I see he notes in the introduction, that the holocaust would have happened anyway, but would it have been on such a scale?

He mentions "just in time" logistics that evidently were assisted by the punch card innovations being applied to deliveries to the death camps. Early in my history studies I noted that a few scholars felt that compiling lists of targeted groups was a feature of totalitarian regimes. The basic list in Edwin's Black's book is the census. I wondered about the concept of "human terrain mapping" undertaken in the US war in Afghanistan. Was this an anthropological project or another list or data base for computer driven solutions?

Scott Ritter notes the overwhelming importance of logistics or throughput as it was referred to in some military courses, in conventional military operations in Ukraine. If I recall correctly the final scene in Catch 22 is of a long line of tractor trailers at loading docks. Looked something what one sees at an Amazon distribution center every day. Of course, you must have quantity to put it in the trucks. I never understood how that worked economically, because the trailers at LTL carriers are mostly empty. They call it less than a truck load shipping. As trailer space is taken by LTL, routine shipping costs for bulk materials, essential goods, like food, hardware, construction supplies, etc., climb. So now when you go shopping for food or other mundane goods, there are items that are "not in stock," and the retailer is not sure when they will have the item, maybe in a few weeks. "Did you check online?"

Ironically, the Russians appear to have throughput and NATO doesn't. Maybe that's because they aren't as "advanced" as we are. I believe someone mentioned the utility of AI in solving "gaps" in the supply chain. I actually thought that there are some things that JIT can't fix, like the proverbial "smart war" designed by the current MIC. The MIC produces widget platforms that do everything in the "battlespace," because everything is "networked" to allegedly establish "full spectrum dominance." How does that work out in the conventional conflict in Ukraine? The joke of course has been for years, that the out of control military budget in the US would ultimately only be able to afford one missile, one ship, and one tank. Or perhaps they could only produce and deliver one of each. Then there is the overwhelming and expensive complexity of those widget platforms which makes them too expensive too difficult to operate in warfare with a "peer rival," whom our leaders treat with contempt.

What do I know? I have a humanities education. I've made my criticism of language AI before. I infer or guess things from the omissions and mistakes they make. So I can't say I don't use it. My primary use of translation applications is to get the script of traditional Chinese (Hanja) or Hangul rather than the meaning. Usually, I have to do it phonetically because AI knows nothing about usage or idiomatic speech. Phone trees drive me up the wall. No I won't do it online.