Science and Technology thread

[aiw]

'A mouse for your mouth': New device allows users to scroll with their tongues

MouthPad^, which attaches to the roof of the mouth, made its debut on the floor of CES. It will be available to the public later this year.

www.nbcnews.com

I was like WTF, but then it made sense once I started reading

 

[bdotling]

It’s pretty deep into the article before it starts making sense

 

[deepdarkblue]

That could also be a good training tool for sex workers.

 

[rome8180]

I wish it was shaped like a huge dick.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

 

[DrKlahn]

What should my opinion be?

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Google is not the company I thought would fail like this. I scrolled through a ton of these until finally losing it when enlarging this one:

 

[DrKlahn]

I totally get that the AI would be designed to brainwash people--why else would it exist--but why can't it count?

 

[bdotling]

I highly suggest reading The Alignment Problem. It basically talks about how we need to learn how to program human nature into these models to get the desired output. This is a 180 from back in the day when Google’s image search for gorillas would bring back black people for results.

 

[DurhamSon]

So the use case for this "amazing" technology is generating graphics for use in publishing and ads I guess? That may or may not even be accurate, coherent, or reproducible? And this is supposed to be a half a trillion dollar industry? Okay

 

[DrKlahn]

Aren't there already millions of stock photos of white and black people interacting? Just rip off any university's promotional materials from the last 30 years.

 

[physicsfactor]

So the use case for this "amazing" technology is generating graphics for use in publishing and ads I guess? That may or may not even be accurate, coherent, or reproducible? And this is supposed to be a half a trillion dollar industry? Okay

Obviously the use case is teaching us how not to be racist

 

[bfactor]

The reverse has always been true as well. Back about 8 yrs ago we were building image classification models at Facebook to predict and label what sport someone was engaged in. The first pass after training on a regular large public data set, we found that no matter what Obama was doing in an image, it predicted him to be playing basketball. No matter what Xi Jinpeng was doing in an image, he was always predicted to be playing table tennis.

 

[CK86]

Live stream of an unmanned mission to the moon that should be touching down in about 45 minutes or so. Last estimate was 6:24 pm ET for touch down. Would be 1st time in 50 years that the US or a US based company successfully landed on the moon.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

The future will be run by a typical Redditor’s brain.

 

[DrKlahn]

I think this site has more to offer than Reddit—did Google not contact us?

 

[rome8180]

As someone who already hates flying, I will not be getting on any Boeing MAX planes if I can avoid it.

‘I’m Not Trying to Cause a Scene. I Just Want to Get Off This Plane.’

A former senior Boeing employee on why he still won’t fly on a MAX plane.

www.politico.com

 

[rhfarmer]

I flew several of them over the weekend. I remember when the flight attendant announced what plane we were on, I was like, aren't these the ones that crashed?

Flying is fucking awful now, BTW. If the plane isn't full, the airlines just cancel the flight. Every flight I was on was overbooked by at least 8 people. Everyone brings mountains of shit with them on planes as well, so I always just gate check my bag to avoid paying $60 for one tiny carry on.

 

[rome8180]

"Self-inflicted wound."

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead in US

Prior to his death, John Barnett was testifying against Boeing over concerns about standards.

www.bbc.com

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Don’t understand the endgame for Pornhub in going offline in all these states. People will see there are other totally fine sites to use if they search “porn” on Google. People aren’t going to publicly rebel or sign a petition or something, claiming their need for Pornhub.