I can already envision a “I’m not human” captcha, for sites like this. Who will be the first to implement it? (Looks at Cloudflare)

"Tell me about the seahorse emoji"

ChatGPT v5.0 spiraling on the existence of the seahorse emoji was glorious to behold. Other LLMs were a little better at sorting things out but often expressed a little bit of confusion.

You can do this.

At least to a level that gets you way past HTTP Bearer Token Authentication where the humans are upvoting and shilling crypto with no AI in sight (like on Moltbook at the moment).

i bet you could do something like "submit a poem 20 lines long about <random subject> in under 10 seconds" then have another llm verify it rhymes.

You could have an LLM answer that, and then still interact as a human.

More realistically I think you'd need something like "Now write your post in the style of a space pirate" with a 10 second deadline, and then have another LLM checking if the two posts cover the same topic/subject but are stylistically appropriate.

"How many times does 'r' appear in the word strawberry?"

Is this "buffalo buffalo buffalo ..... " sentency thingy solved yet?

Satire?

The Waymo driver tech is impressive. That said an experienced driver might have recognized the pattern where a stopped big vehicle occludes a part of the road leading to such situation, and might have stopped or slowed down almost to a halt before passing. The Waymo driver reacts faster but is not able to predict such scenarios by filling the gaps, simulating the world to inform decisions. Chapeau to Waymo anyways

There have been many instances of Waymo preventing a collision by predicting pedestrians emerging from occlusion. This isn’t new information at all for them. Some accidents are simply physically impossible to prevent. I don’t know for sure if this one was one of those, but I’m fairly confident it couldn’t have been from prediction failure.

See past examples:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hubWIuuz-e4 — first save is a child emerging from a parked car. Notice how Waymo slows down preemptively before the child starts moving.

https://www.reddit.com/r/waymo/s/ivQPuExwNW — detects foot movement from under the bus.

https://www.reddit.com/r/waymo/s/LURJ8isQJ6 — stops for dogs and children running onto the street at night.

> detects foot movement ..

That’s probably how they do it, which is again very clever stuff, chapeau. But they do it like that b/c they can’t really predict the world around them fast enough. It might be possible in the future with AI World Models though

What do you mean “fast enough”? You can’t predict something that doesn’t exist i.e. not visible to the sensors. A Waymo wouldn’t move at all if it assumed people would always jump out of nowhere.

Even if you detect “fast enough”, there are physical limits for braking and coming to a stop.

You are predicting stuff that your sensors don’t see all the time my friend

You’re being vague and hand-wavy yet again.

Do you stop at every double parked vehicle when you’re driving? A Waymo would never move if it always predicted pedestrians would jump in front of it out of nowhere or the car next it would swerve at 65 mph. It’s physically impossible to stop in time for many accidents, unless you’re already stopped.

I agree but if you can infer that maybe there are children running around because it’s the time they get out of school etc, then yes, you stop at every double parked car.. I’m not saying it’s easy to do, I’m just saying that’s a limitation of the system, that still already does miracles..

This one should have been prevented because the Waymo should have been driving at max 10mph

I think this definitely an improvement to consider, but when comparing I think that big number, i.e. statistics are the only thing that matters. Some human could detect the pattern and come to full halt another human driver could be speeding while texting

We should definitely send a playable copy of doom to aliens on a golden record on the next Voyager mission

and risk having them interpret it as a declaration of war?

But isn’t Greenland already in NATO?

And which nation do you think controls NATO (forcing other NATO members to its will, even leading them into wars they didn't want)?

Yes, they are.

It’s easier for a state to enforce censorship when there is only a SPoF

The real question tho is: how would you become the mitm reserving for yourself the benefit of the doubt?

I read somewhere that electrolysis of marine water could emit enough oxygen, while also harvesting hydrogen, to counter CO2 emissions, but I can’t find the source, has anyone heard of it before or am I filling the gaps of my memory with generated garbage?

There’s a guaranteed path to AGI, but it’s blocked behind computational complexity. Finding an efficient algorithm to simulate Quantum Mechanics should be top priority for those seeking AGI. A more promising way around it is using Quantum Computing, but we’ll have to wait for that to become good enough..

Required energy density at the necessary scale will be your next hurdle.

Once you have the efficient algorithm you approximate asymptotically with the energy you have, of course you can’t obtain the same precision

Or speed. I think Frank Herbert was on to something in Dune. The energy efficiency of the human brain is hard to beat. Perhaps we should invest in discovering "spice." I think it might be more worthwhile.

Okay, enough eggnog and posting.

That would arguably not be artificial intelligence, but rather simulated natural intelligence.

It also seems orders of magnitude less resource efficient than higher-level approaches.

What’s the difference? Arguably the latter will be better IMO than the former

How many orders of magnitude? Nearly as many as it would be less efficient?

It’s like comparing apples and oranges

How would simulating quantum mechanics help with AGI?

My guess is they believe in the Penrose idea that consciousness has something to do with quantum mechanics

now buy the stock

What exactly should get simulated and how do you think quantum mechanics will help with this?

At least the solar system I would say. Quantum mechanics will help you do that in the correct way to obtain what Nature already obtained: general intelligence.

Cloudflare is becoming the great firewall of America more and more every day

And yet, inevitable. That’s why a simulation of the universe would be a secure way of creating AGI in the true sense. All depends on: can you find an algorithm that simulates quantum physics efficiently, or, can you make a quantum computer with sufficiently many qbits?

... huh, wow.

Talk about sublimity.