AI fails

[briantrumpet]

 

[icowden]

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Brian - are you implying that trains don't magically fly parallel to Westminster Bridge?

 

[briantrumpet]

Brian - are you implying that trains don't magically fly parallel to Westminster Bridge?

Not sure, but I think @PurplePenguin knows his way around London on public transport.

 

[Pblakeney]

Brian - are you implying that trains don't magically fly parallel to Westminster Bridge?

Too high to be a Thames ferry.

 

[Pblakeney]

Judgement Day approaching?
"Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark has called for the ability to slow progression of artificial intelligence (AI), warning the technology is nearing a point where it could develop without human input."

 

[briantrumpet]

Haha, Hunter Biden is having a lot of fun at the moment Not Giving a Shit about being able to accept who he is.

 

[Ian H]

Too high to be a Thames ferry.

A windowless cabin on a recent channel crossing had a fake window with a fake view of fake flowers in a fake garden.

 

[Psamathe]

RSB (Royal Society of Biology, professional society for zoologists and botanists) has an article about AI in bioscience research (Vol 73 No2) ie academic and research oriented

Title: AI won't fix a broken system
Conclusion Summary: AI companies, science funders nd policymakers seem to be treating AI as a magic accelerant — something to sprinkle onto scientific enterprise to make it go faster. But, as one recent analysis put it, this is like "adding lanes to a highway when the slowdown is actually caused by a tollbooth" The question is not how to build more lanes, it is why the tollbooth is there in the first place.

Earlier in the article it does recognise some limited advances

"More Of The Same: This is not an argument that AI can't advance science. It already has in fields of protein technology to nuclear fusion. But those breakthroughs involved systems designed to solve specific scientific problems. The broad adoption of AI suggests it could lead to more of what we are already doing but faster — or, worse, simply enable the rapid production of mediocre manuscripts. Science advances not only by solving well-defined problems but by generating new ones, and the institutional problems shaping how most scientists actually use AI are upstream of any technology.

(Sorry it's a RSB members printed journal and no public links to the article. It is available through the Wikipedia Library for WikiMedia active editors registered If anybody particularly interested I could scan and private message the two pages but it's copyright and not public and explicit "... its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission." so not something I could post on open forum).

 

[PurplePenguin]

Not sure, but I think @PurplePenguin knows his way around London on public transport.

Have you been on a sleeper train where the bed is parallel to the window?

 

[briantrumpet]

Have you been on a sleeper train where the bed is parallel to the window?

Only been on one type (SNCF Train de Nuit), and that was a definite no (all six bunks per 'cabin' perpendicular either side of the window), but then they are all ancient rolling stock and no 'business class' accommodation, AFAIK. Some of the modern sleeper trains might offer this for big $s.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Only been on one type (SNCF Train de Nuit), and that was a definite no (all six bunks per 'cabin' perpendicular either side of the window), but then they are all ancient rolling stock and no 'business class' accommodation, AFAIK. Some of the modern sleeper trains might offer this for big $s.

I'd be confident they don't. Trains are not that narrow, so perpendicular is always the best option.

 

[briantrumpet]

Seems to be a big fat 'no', as far as my Googling goes... 'Nightjet' is the modern reincarnation of sleeper trains, and even the posh cabins are perpendicular. I'm guessing it's a function of the width of train carriages and how best to use the space given the length of bunks and the need for corridors (and maybe emergency escape options for derailments, where access to smashable windows would be necessary).

 

[briantrumpet]

I'd be confident they don't. Trains are not that narrow, so perpendicular is always the best option.

Have just come to the same conclusion below your post, same reasoning.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Have just come to the same conclusion below your post, same reasoning.

The beds in sleeper buses are parallel to the window.

 

[Psamathe]

I'd be confident they don't. Trains are not that narrow, so perpendicular is always the best option.

Maybe depends on the train. I found taking the train in India difficult as they are always booked months in advance but I did find a "loophole" so managed and long'ish overnight (SL class is no aircon, lowest class available). Interesting experience and glad I tried it but different challenges from overnight bus travel.

AC classes follow the perpendicular open compartment but often with 3 berths each side of the compartment (class 3E). No idea about AC1 and AC2.