#UAV #lidar products from the 2022 survey at Sito archeologico di Chiafura in Scicli, Sicily from point clouds we acquired. Interesting features including Medieval architecture and man made caves. If you're interested in a collab write us up info[at]montefortino.eu

Time for a Civ1 and Civ2 leaders mod

Cold feet about coating the entire surface of the earth in data centers?

Bestselling novelist David Baldacci on how AI companies deliberately stole every book and academic paper published in the last 70 years: Baldacci is a named plaintiff in a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, alongside John Grisham, Scott Turow, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, and Jonathan Franzen. They're also representing roughly 60,000 unnamed plaintiffs. He explains how AI companies arrived at novels as the key ingredient for building superintelligence: "The AI community searched the world. How do you create superintelligence? They tried everything to try to figure out, how do you do this? They fed dictionaries into it. They did lots of stuff. They finally found the only way to create super intelligence that they needed was to feed novels into the large language models. Novels worked, finished products of storytelling with characters and dialogue and research and events and interactions. That was their Holy Grail moment." Baldacci points out the obvious path the AI companies could have taken —negotiating with the five major publishers, each of whom represents around 100,000 writers. Instead, they chose theft. @davidbaldacci continues: "They decided we're just going to steal them. I'm not saying anything out of school. They've admitted this. They got most of the books from a Russian pirate website where they would go and download the books from there. And they didn't even want their software programs to know they were stealing the books. So they had the software program that would scrape off the copyright page, scrape off the ISBN number on the back, and just download the book itself." The scale is staggering. Over the last eight or nine years, every book and every academic paper published in the last 70 years worldwide has been ingested into the large language models at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Baldacci testified about this on Capitol Hill in July. He describes the personal toll of being a named plaintiff: "I've had to give them all of my materials, all of my financial information I've had to give them, let them come in and do a complete scrape on all of my emails, all of my communications. I sat through a nine hour deposition like I've done something wrong. They said, yeah, we've taken your books, we haven't paid you a dime and we didn't ask your permission, but we should be entitled to do it because AI is so cool. That's basically their legal argument." The parallel case against Anthropic in California has already settled for $1.5 billion, to be paid out over two years to 50,000 writers. The OpenAI and Microsoft case is now past discovery and heading toward a settlement conference.

Every year the arrival of AGI, that no one asked for btw, is pushed back a few years

that koenigsegg wont fuel itself

Thanks, this was great!!!! @GaryMarcus youtube.com/watch?v=iFYF_e1G…

Orbital, slower view.

EL-OH-EL, grifters discovering that LiDAR exists.

An animated inspection of the filtered data for your viewing pleasure

Two images from THE SAME DATASET. Left: public WMS/WMTS terrain model. Right: the same LiDAR data processed with my algorithm. A very problematic summer dataset with uneven ground, ruins, slopes, depressions and high/low vegetation growing everywhere. Time for a beer. Cheers!

Dobre wiesci dla robotnikow pracujacych w fabrykach punktow

hmmm

They call it a deadline but no one actually dies if it is missed

We have entered full Idiocracy

Sytuacja polskiej nauki nie wynika tylko z braku funduszy. To systemowa katastrofa rozwojowa, która spycha Polskę na margines innowacyjnego świata. Kilka miesięcy temu, w The Economist ukazała się analiza dotycząca tzw. „brain circulation”, a w niej zdanie: „Poland is the biggest loser from this scientific migration” (Polska jest najbardziej stratna z powodu migracji naukowców). Jesteśmy krajem, który daje światu talenty, które później rozwijają innych, dają bezpieczeństwo innym. @3procentnanauke

Nie lubie tego profilu, ale trzeba przyznac ze zart udany

This is the beginning of the end for European science. A longstanding conjecture in mathematics - the unit distance problem - has been resolved by an INTERNAL OpenAI model. In other words, no one here in Europe had the slightest chance to prompt this model in search of this or other scientific discoveries. The trend of making models available to selected parties only will continue, similar to the case with Mythos, which was only made available to a few selected institutions for cybersecurity screening. I have been saying for a few years already that AI will redefine scientific discovery and accelerate innovation, but this has not led to a major shift in approach here in Poland, nor has Europe taken a strong stance. We have no European LLMs capable of supporting scientists in their work, whereas the USA is moving toward a scenario of restricted access to their solutions. Seeing the capabilities of the new models, China will undoubtedly follow suit. In the long term, this will have a dramatic impact on scientific productivity here in Europe.

Stanowiska CAA PL odnosnie calej zawieruchy zwiazanej ze zmiana prawa w Polsce odnosnie wykorzystywania detektorow metalu przez hobbystow pl.caa-international.org/sta…

This is why we need to gate-keep science. Two pseudo-intellectuals thinking they discovered something deep, conflating >social attention >transformers attention >quantum physics observer (attention) These have nothing in common, other than the ambiguity of English language. Naked ladies on Instagram have nothing to do with a weighted average followed by softmax. But they're both so mind-blown by their discovery. Dunning–Kruger will only get amplified by AI sycophancy. Please call me out if you see me going beyond my own DK threshold.