There is also big difference with ai not having a proper body yet.

I don’t see having a body as relevant. Essentially, it would be “small child without a body” for comparison.

And I see how you’d write an excited article about it.

Just to be clear, this is co-written by Peter Norvig, co-author “of the most popular textbook in the field of AI: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries”.

They somehow completely failed to address the interesting and well discussed arguments.

While I don’t agree with his conclusions, I felt like he discussed a lot of arguments. Note that he doesn’t argue for consciousness.

edit: Mentioned that it’s co-written by him, he’s not the sole author. Though the co-author of the article, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, is also not some random person who just got into AI.

But that would also exclude little children from intelligence.

Very much disagreeing with the article. The current frontier AIs barely have intelligence, they are nowhere close to AGI.

Don’t get me wrong, LLMs are amazing, and I love using them for anything (actually mostly for private things because the results for work related stuff usually suck), but there is little intelligence. Even GPT4, which is pretty much best-of-breed with a huge distance (GPT 3.5 reminds me of a scifi book I once read that had “artificial stupids”), is basically just generating text that sounds similar to what was on the internet

Yeah, you can use them for all kinds of tasks, but it’s very awkward. And certainly not intelligent.

edit: This is not to say the article is not worth your while, I’d actually highly recommend it.

edit2: I’m also neither eloquent nor smart enough, compared to the author, to write a proper rebuttal, so there’s that ;)

So “I decline to answer” is perfectly acceptable to every question.

And maybe that’s the case here as well. Just like most law enforcement, but border control especially, including in the US, lie about what their rights are.

You might also want to check one of their chats and ask there.

It’s funny how in a “Free and Open Source Software” community, people heavily advocate a proprietary, commercial solution.

Never was a thing up here. But Rummelpottlaufen (German link, essentially songs for treats, dressed up as anything, on NYE) was, and still is. Though fewer than there used to be when I was young. When I was 18ish, we even did it for alcohol.

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Germany. No. But supermarkets and other stores try their best to change that every year ;)

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Most cities, even more pronounced in Western Germany, have lackluster district heating networks

Lackluster? I’m pretty sure our historic city center has no such network at all ;) The dorm I used to live in had stone-walls from somewhere between 1100 and 1300 in the party cellar :D

Is that actually a significant enough part of their population that it would show in these statistics? Personally, I doubt it, but that’s feeling-based without data.

I mean, it’s also been deprecated for 11 years by now.

Wow, crazy. Both FF and my normal reader (SumatraPDF) show only an error:

I’d see about complaining on accessibility grounds, I can’t imagine the story there is good.

I have never encountered that or even heard about it before now. So I guess I don’t care much?

Do you have an example link? The linked blog’s USCIS Form I-130 seems to be fixed, as I have none of the mentioned issues even just using firefox.

With !reg you switch to sniffed regional search, with e. g. !de you switch to German search.

10 is pretty nice, but it’s also what the map tells me Lübeck has. Current live values from the waqi API are at 19, and that’s a great value, I’ve seen 40, and even up to 80 in winter.