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In Topic: Empress Laseen
Today, 05:39 AM
We know losing 7C was problematic to Laseen, and Mallick and Korbolo actively work against her to force the situation where she has to sacrifice the Wickans. None of that lines up w a situation where losing Coltaine and his army was to her advantage. -
In Topic: The Russia Politics and War in Ukraine Thread
15 March 2023 - 04:49 AM
Werthead, on 14 March 2023 - 06:33 PM, said:
Two Russian Su-27s intercepted a US drone on the edge of Russian-claimed airspace south of Crimea. Apparently they tried to buzz the drone and even carried out a weird maneuver trying to dump fuel over it, but one of the pilots apparently lost control and crashed into it, damaging his Su-27 and sending the drone crashing into the sea.
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Would bet he was trying to do the inverted thing from TOP GUN but found out the hard way they had left the cap off the fuel tank. -
In Topic: What's messing with your groove?
15 March 2023 - 04:46 AM
QuickTidal, on 15 March 2023 - 01:34 AM, said:
JPK, on 14 March 2023 - 08:12 PM, said:
Azath Vitr (D, on 14 March 2023 - 07:34 PM, said:
The World Will Change Next Week
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Researchers at Google [...] released an AI model called PaLM-E this week that combines language and vision capabilities to control robots, allowing them to complete tasks autonomously in the real world—from getting a chip bag from a kitchen to sorting blocks by color into corners of a rectangle.
According to the researchers, this is the largest Visual Language Model (VLM) reported to date, with 562 billion parameters. This AI has a “wide array of capabilities” which includes math reasoning, multi-image reasoning, and chain-of-thought reasoning. [...] the AI uses multi-task training to transfer skills across tasks, rather than being trained on individual tasks. [...] the AI model when controlling robots even displays "emergent capabilities like multimodal chain of thought reasoning, and the ability to reason over multiple images, despite being trained on only single-image prompts."
PaLM-E is based on Google’s previous large language model called PaLM and the E in the name stands for “embodied,” and refers to the model’s interaction with physical objects and robotic control. [...]
The robot is able to generate its own plan of action in response to commands using the model. When the robot was asked to “bring me the rice chips from the drawer,” PaLM-E was able to guide it to go to the drawers, open the top drawer, take the rice chips out of the drawer, bring it to the user, and put it down. The robot was able to do this even with a human disturbance, with a researcher knocking the rice chips back into the drawer the first time the robot picked it up. PaLM-E is able to do this by analyzing data from its live camera.
[...] “This enables not only embodied reasoning but also question answering, as demonstrated in our experiments.”
[...] “Perhaps most exciting about PaLM-E is positive transfer: simultaneously training PaLM-E across several domains, including internet-scale general vision-language tasks, leads to significantly higher performance compared to single-task robot models.”
Big Tech Is Now Developing Powerful AI Brains for Real-World Robots
It's amazing how one individual's happy post can be another's groove post.
This AI stuff is really starting to concern me. At least this one seems to be going towards furthering automation instead of encroaching on creative spaces.
We should be more clear here. This is machine learning. Not AI. We are a far way off from proper AI. Machine learning is wild, but scary it’s not. It’s algorithms and instructions.
Yeah, that's what the Replicants said just before Skynet took over and put us all in the Matrix.
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In Topic: Whats making you happy right now
14 March 2023 - 03:30 PM
Which company is more likely to turn out to be a front for a global secret organization dedicated to protecting the world from interdimensional threats and/or pursuing global domination?
Otherwise based on yours and other posts I go w option 2 due to benefits, long term CV experience usefulness, and that their name suggests a sideline in superhuman genetic manipulation. -
In Topic: Was Laseen telling the truth?
14 March 2023 - 03:21 PM
sigpig, on 14 March 2023 - 03:29 AM, said:
Abyss, on 12 March 2023 - 06:20 PM, said:
MODGOD NOTICE OF THREAD MOVE TO GENERAL SUBFORUM
OP STATES HAS READ THE WHOLE SERIES
CAN'T DISCUSS WHOLE SERIES IN DG SUB
Three things are clarified in MoI and later books...
1. The Bridgeburners were not supposed to die at Pale
2. Laseen and co were purging the Old Guard who would never accept her rule
3. Whiskeyjack, Dujek, Tays, and Laseen had a plan to deal w the Pannion Domin and the Genabackis campaign at the same time. It required Whiskeyjack to be 'on the ground', Dujek to appear to break from Laseen, and Tays to be hidden. It mostly worked, the Domin is stopped and an alliance made w Rake and Darujhistan. It costs the Malazan Empire Dujek's Host, Whiskeyjack, Lorn, and the BBs.
Pretty much lost the T'Lan Imass too, with Silverfox being completely unable to make a decision.Don't forget about Tattersail, Calot, Bellurdan, Nightchill, A'Karonys, Hairlock...
Losing the Imass wasnt part of the plan, more like Laseen was planning for it.
Night chill and by extension Bellurdan were Tays' targets.
Akaronys... I think Nightchill took him out?
Calot, Hairlock, Tattersail, were all old guard but low grade, not so much targets as convenient collateral damage. I think Laseen and Tays didnt know Hairlock was actively working against them, tho WJ did.
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