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I came across this article today. https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-investigators-say-overreliance-on-palantir-ai-tech-contributed-to-u-s-strike-that-killed-123-iranian-children-2000814477 Apparently, the (irresponsible) use of AI was partly to blame for the American…
I’d just like to add one last point regarding what I’ve been calling, with no technical pretense, the AI/LLM hazard…
I agree fully with this argument. And then I would add, the exponential growth in AI capabilities means that the…
Liked the interpretationist stance that individual LLM instances have beliefs and desires, essentially because otherwise it is hard to explain…
Well now we know you CANT find arbitrarily close approximations in all cases because there is no true function to…
We’re getting outside my domain of expertise. Like I said, I don’t personally work on fluid dynamics – I work…
Nobody uses the NS equations to find their *real actual solutions* in engineering problems. They use approximations. The math question…
…by doctors lamenting the medical crisis wrought by the most recent Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Suppression of speech critical of Israel and in support of the Palestinians has been the one consistent thread in "cancel culture" for decades now (recall Steven Salaita, Norman Finkelstein, etc.). Scientific American has disgraced itself.
(Thanks to Fábio Shecaira for the pointer.)
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