* Posts by David 164

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Microsoft puts ex-DeepMind boffin in charge of London AI hub

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There goal is to steal Deepmind and Stability AI an companies AI talent. They are more likely to be successful if those people don't have to move their homes whilsts moving jobs.

So London is their best choice.

Boffins build world's largest astronomical digital camera to map the heavens

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I doubt Scientists will be turning down data from either telescope.

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China is building a replacement for hubble.

Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs

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Sound like he was running it like a American startup and not a British one where you are expected to compete with the world with a packet of crisps and a can of coke and a pat on the back for encouragement.

These losses aren't extraordinary for a tech startup, a American tech start up.

How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists

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It pretty funny that US congress thinks China needs US money to make progress in a industry, any industry. An china has kept up with AI simply because why Nvidia newest chips might make it cheaper and faster to train models, old hardware will do just fine, it will just takes longest and need more money. An most of the major breakthroughs in AI by the likes of Google an other companies and universities has been and publish online before US started it cracked down.

Uncle Sam sweetens the pot with $15M bounty on Hive ransomware gang members

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So the FBI dismantle the Hive without finding the Queens first. An no doubt the Queens have already or will no doubt in the future build a new hive for themselves.

Ford pulls the plug on EV strategy as losses pile up

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I'm guessing their strategy now is to get congress to sanction the hell out of Chinese electric car, van companies.

Cisco intros AI to find firewall flaws, warns this sort of thing can't be free

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The attackers will be using the same tools to predict the behaviours of the defenders. How long before both sides AI are eventually thinking an acting faster than any human could hope to keep up with.

Getty's image-scraping sueball against Stability AI will go to trial in the UK

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Re: Having trouble getting my head around what exactly is at issue here

You should be fine if your AI can view the images for training in the same way as a human does, instead of copying them into a seperate training archive.

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Re: Having trouble getting my head around what exactly is at issue here

They seem to claim that the images were copied on to a seperate harddrive and then use to train the AI, Stability AI doesn't seem to deny that, in fact they seem to be saying the responsibility for this issue doesn't lay with them, that lays with a non profit in Germany where they obtain their training data from.

Brit bendy chip firm Pragmatic scores funding to boost production

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Re: World leaders in semiconductor innovation

Patents means the knowledge of how you are making and producing your technology is in the public domain. Which makes it easier for other companies to replicate it.

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Re: Alternatively ...

The intuitive I tried to apply for, the people who was running it and the government who set up lack common sense, they wanted me to attend a meeting up in Ipswich because I live in Essex I come under East England and Ipswich which is 2hrs by public transport was their closest offices, instead of one 30 minutes away from me because that office pot of funding was dedicated to people who live in London/South East.

An that was a 4hr round travel for a 30 minutes introductory meeting, there would have to be other meetings as well.

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Re: Threats

Threats is the only thing this government understands. The only thing it is interested in is how to cling on to power.

Microsoft dials back Bing after users manage to recreate Disney logo in fake AI-generated images

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Why would you spend hundreds of millions on a start up when the brains of it are known for waking off shortly afterwards.

Bright spark techie knew the drill and used it to install a power line, but couldn't outsmart an odd electrician

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I have hired three electricians in my life all three smelled of booze. I think that may explain a thing or two.

UK civil servants – hopefully including those spending billions on tech – to skill up in STEM

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Pretty pointless as it will still be idiot's with zero vision and foresight at the treasury that controls everything.

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Unfortunately it means nothing if the treasury is still being run by idiots.

EU still set to OK Microsoft's Activision slurp, UK disagrees

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There were whisper's of the CMA authorizing the deal and then they said no. So how about we wait see what the fat lady sings first.

OpenAI CEO heralds AGI no one in their right mind wants

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Re: It's useful. (Unlike most must-have tech)

It not the end of ad search.

Say you ask it, help me build a android app,

The provider of the service can still get to promote specific programming tools to the user and they cam charge for those mentions.

Research raises questions: Are instruments taken to Mars sensitive enough to find life?

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I think the biggest question even if they were even if they found life would NASA accept the result or accept any and all other explanations instead.

Iran steps up its cybercrime game and Uncle Sam punches back

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If the US don't want it people targeted for assassination may be it should targeting Iranians citizens for assassination.

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So nothing the US itself hasn't partaken in over the decades.

NSA super-leaker Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship

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Being the best Russian agent they have had in decades, he has serve his time.

UK blocks sale of chip design software company to China

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I will be impressed when this act is use to stop Americans from stealing our technology. Or even a nation like India who managed to obtain our sodium battery technology at a bargain basement price of 120 million quid.

Royal Navy will be getting autonomous machines – for donkey work humans can't be bothered with

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Did he wink has he said this?

Hard drives at Autonomy offices were destroyed the same month CEO Lynch quit, extradition trial was told

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I suspect the appeal will make a lot of mention of the fact the evidence that the US has isn't of a standard or quality that can be admitted to UK courts.

The UK is running on empty when it comes to electric vehicle charging points

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Re: Some things that would help the situation

Even that more complicated that it needs to be, you should be able to plug your car in and charge, No need for cards or apps.

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Re: Some things that would help the situation

1 - Done, Already mandated by the government legislation.

2 - Done, the law now require all charges to take chip and pin

3 - Done RAC already have mobile car battery rechargers https://www.rac.co.uk/innovation/ev-boost

So all your demands are being met already. Anything else you want to add on to your list.

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Re: Sooner than many think.

Except most models arriving now are pure electric. An pretty much all manufactures are focusing on pure electric. Come 2030 I suspect there will very few if any hybrids being sold in the UK, they simply won't be there to buy.

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Re: Hmm....

An where is the electricity coming from to produce all that hydrogen? There plenty of capacity in the grid over night to handle electric cars, there will be even more once we start shutting down those soon to be redundent refineries.

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Re: Hmm....

EV are a clear environmental win for cities, they will lead to cleaner air and a quieter environment.

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Re: Hmm....

Turning that oil into products is energy intensive.

Mike Lynch extradition: Uncle Sam offered Autonomy founder $10m bail if he stood trial in the US

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That not much of a offer.

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch loses first stage in fight against extradition to US

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Re: If this were the other way round ...

How many of those people were accuse of committing their crimes on US soil that were cleared by US authorities before being extradited to another country to face punishment under their legal system?

Pipe down, Jeff. You've only gone where Gus Grissom went before, 60 years ago today

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Re: X-15

with a single test pilot, much harder to do it with 2 pilots and 4 guests.

Bezos v Branson: Battle of the wannabe Space Barons as Virgin Galactic cleared by FAA to start flying customers

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Re: Of the two,

You say that but Branson is now working with Rolls Royce and Reaction Engines on producing a engine for his Mach 3 supersonic jet.

It no guarantee but I could eventually this partnership being expanded to include the construction of a SSTO vehicle at some point, after Virgin Galactic has run it sub orbital service for a couple of years and is turning over a profit.

I also think it only a matter of time before Virgin Galactic is merge back with Virgin orbit.

Also someone other than me has got to be thinking Virgin Galactic and stratolaunch would be another good merger with such a aircraft capable of handling Virgin Orbit launches and possible multiple SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rockets at once all with the same vehicle.

Uncle Sam recovers 63.7 of 75 Bitcoins Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware crew

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I think after today, my guess is the store the keys on the FBI ANoM phone.

Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure

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Re: What a great discovery

I'm pretty sure they settle for room pressure and room temperature superconductor that they have to fire a laser at.

IBM unleashes AI on two space problems: How to map all the junk in Earth's orbit, and how to put more up there

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How about they put it to use on working on a FRL drive.

Revenues from in-app purchases swelled 32% to almost $30bn for Q3 2020 – and Apple snaffled most of it

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Re: Jeesus

If we take retail as a example, Tesco has a profit margin of around 6%. Many smaller retailers operate at a lower revenue margin than that.

UK govt reboots A Level exam results after computer-driven fiasco: Now teacher-predicted grades will be used after all

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Re: Too late for some.

Universities will now have to review their chosen students some pupils who were awarded better grades than their mocks will now have only their mocks grade which might not be good enough for that university. Expect a lot of changes and a lot of anger. Luckily for universities they have got a slight get out of jail free card in that the number of foreign students are expected to be low, freeing up spaces for english students this year.

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fuck the algorithm indeed but only after all of the private schools pupils mysteriously got unadjusted results allowing all of their pupils onto their chosen university course, I'm sure some private pupils even manage to upgrade their course using this algorithmic results.

University ordered to stop running women-only job ads

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Rightly so, discrimination of any sort is evil.

Rip and replace is such a long Huawei to go, UK telcos plead, citing 'blackouts' and 'billion pound' costs: Are Vodafone and BT playing 'Project Fear'?

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An you don't think the Chinese cyber warfare division aren't going to figure out a way turn off the same equipment from different non chinese own manufacturers? If the Chinese want this capability they are going to get it, whether it Huawei gear or not.

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How do you know it non compromise Spyware kits, are you going to rip each peace of kit apart and do a detail analysis of every single bit of kit use to make sure the Russians or the Chinese didn't slip something in during the manufacturing process?

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All sides in this debate is playing project fear card.

Fact is, if the chinese want to spy on us they are going to spy on us, Britain not having a huawei of our own going around installing gear on mobile networks around the world didn't stop GCHQ from hacking country wide mobile phone systems , it isn't going to stop the chinese. This is why GCHQ just don't about what equipment they use, they know if they can hack anything, the chinese can.

Brit police's use of facial-recognition tech is lawful, no need to question us, cops' lawyer tells Court of Appeal

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Re: So now

That just a argument that we should never make any improvements ever. We live for thousands of years without shoes, why do we shoes. Because they prevent us from constantly getting cuts on our feets, make us healthier probably improve ours lives just that bit more.

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Re: Keep a straight face.

Only if it links to a database that contain everyone faces and names. That a possibility but that isn't what the current AFR is doing or is capable of doing by a long shot.

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Re: Keep a straight face.

Except human operators can the WHO as well, and WHAT. An if you have a super recogniser watching those cameras then they are even better at this than computers. The comparison is perfectly valid.

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Re: This is legislation which affects everyone, immediately and continuously

You would lose any such vote. No under the stupid rules you put in place but under rules that would be written by the electoral commission and where someone who isn't making a vote is presume to vote no, I might not turn up to vote but I have no problem with the technology.

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