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No real spoilers in the article though. Just one of the ideas revealed very early in the book.

The movie is almost unrelated to the book. I really like the book though, even being as depressing as it is.

Monday… is a very Russian book, heavily based on memes and folklore. You will have very hard time understanding it. I can’t recommend you to try it again.

The 2 books I’ve mentioned are very international on the contrary.

BTW, “The kid from hell” is also really good.

I highly recommend also reading the “Inhabited Island” as well as “Hard to be a God” by these authors. These books are brilliant as well.

As an AI "hater", I definitely think there are very useful and net-positive (and underrated yet) applications of the LLM technology.

Finding something in archives is definitely one of those.

AI companies: stealing data everywhere to feed their models, paying no one for it.

Also AI companies: oh no, You’ve poisoned our models with your data!

Look, I've used trillions times the resources that are needed to run or even to program these demos (which are marvels of the art of coding) to run them in a browser.

And I didn't do any coding to achieve that. Cool right?

Eh.. no. A completely boring negation of what demos are about.

I’ve opened the story just to search for “Russia”

Of course, Russia is being blamed twice for this data breach in the comments.

I am not disappointed.

Of course! Why even ask? The answer to any question like “Is Russia doing evil thing n?” is always “yes”.

This applies to all professions, not just mathematicians.

The most common answer I’ve heard so far is “well, AI will train on its own output… maybe”.

I don’t think that’s even possible.

No. There is serious scientific evidence already that our brain functions on the level of quantum mechanics. Human brain is not just an automata; wavefunction collapse may be very essential to our concept of free will.

AI is what is currently known as AI.

Artificial Intelligent Being is something far beyond and completely different.

There’s no contradiction.

A software cannot be intelligent.

This is very easily proven by a mind experiment where you replace all the transistors by billions of humans calculating the same software output.

They will not create a new intelligence by doing so.

AI is not intelligent and will never be.

Creating an artificial intelligent being is something to be accomplished in the future - but not now and not with this approach.

Can you show the PR?

What is actually the meaning of “handcrafting” here?

So are we in singularity already? The research count is rising exponentially. /s

On the contrary: software quality was steady and improving in my observations back then.

I am seeing this in all kinds of software. Quality is steadily declining.

So what exactly is happening to the software industry? Why are we getting buggier than ever releases of major Operating Systems?

For some reasons I can’t stop thinking about “AI”.

>Capitalism doesn't require that corporate income is distributed through wages

It does indeed require that. Otherwise, there's nobody left to profit on. Without consumers there's no business - and no capitalism.

First Geran drones are based on Shaheds but are not Shaheds. This is not how they are named.

The latest jet drones being discussed in this article have nothing in common with Shaheds at all.

What is the resemblance between Geran-5 (a jet drone, essentially a rocket) and Shahed/Lucas drones after all?

Russia renamed it because it chose to. This is a general rule: if you produce something, you name it.

For example, the Storm Shadow missile in the UK is essentially the same as Scalp missile in France. Yet whoever produces chooses a name.

Renaming a Russian made drone is WEIRD. You can only name the weapons you make.

Just repeating. This drone is named Geran-5. It is produced in Russia. Iran doesn’t produce such a jet drone at all.

Renaming another country’s weapon is a very weird propaganda move. Why would anyone do that?

Drone’s name is Geran-5. It is also made in Russia, not in Iran. Nor does Iran produce such a (or somehow similar) drone. Nor does Iran claim any rights to it.

Calling it Shahed is a very weird propaganda twist.

What military assets? Did that school contain those scary Iran nuclear weapons? BTW, where did Iraq store their WMD after all? In the oil wells, right?

These are facts. American bases are destroyed or being withdrawn. USA can no longer protect its allies from Iran. Hence, Iran is becoming the only power in the region.

P.S. I have no idea what is Iranian state media or how to watch/read it.

Iran is becoming the new regional power while USA is retreating from the entire ME.

This system is rumored to be currently looking for nuclear weapons of Iran in some girl's schools.