Lawyers will be among the last to be replaced. They have baked into the laws provisions about you being licensed practitioner, and they will argue that only applies to humans.

Shell is interesting study/company. Back in 2021 they released a white paper claiming that peak oil was reached in 2019, and that whitepaper market the shift in Shell as a company. They reduced investment in new oil rigs and wells, they pocket (or rather pay out) extra profits (from money not invested into new oil wells) and they seem to be trying to switch both from "growing demand" to "stable demand" and from "oil company" to "renewable company". They might pull it off, they might not, but this will be studies for decades.

Generally when whale dies it's corps support whole ecosystems, and can take years to decompose. First, large scavengers will feed on it, and those will be on or near the surface, then small bits and pieces will start falling down and support deep ocean ecologies, but we don't truly understand those. Depending on how deep you go, they will feed anything from fish to microbes, and entire deep ocean ecologies rely on decomposing animal bits falling to ocean floor.

No, the fact that it's mathematically impossible to store that many images, and if done, this compression algorithm would violate laws of physics, means that it is not storing images.

It is impossible to compress 380tb of data to 0.04tb of data.

The computer is not storing a copy of original work in trained model. It looks at picture, it learns stuff from it and it stores only what it learns.

Your argument is based either on fundamental misconception on your part, or a flat out lie from you. Neither one casts you in good light

The "they re-create art" argument comes from a paper that is widely shared on Reddit. Thing is, that paper itself mentions that the researchers trained their own models on small data sized, ranging from 300 pictures to few thousand, and they started seeing novel results at 1000 images.

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Also current bots can't generate good code, not yet, but they have their own usage. As an example, a client I recently had asked me to design patching system (small shop, with 100 or so servers, they had no use for automated patching up to now), and some simple automation. You know, the type of weekend jobs you do to earn some extra cash. Well, since they are using azure, I went with azure automation, but I had no idea how it works. Well, chatGPT told me how it works, in details, gave me some code that might work, etc. But the most important thing by far was the high level overview, it saved me hours of reading documentation. This shit is the future, but not how you might expect it to be.

What used to happen when you asked for a painting in style of X? The same thing is happening with AI art. It's literally the same thing.

Well, that's a whole load of bullshit.

In that specific case, no. Fair use laws cover that, and Google vs author guild had solved that specific case in court. Using your work falls under fair use, just like human reading your work and incorporating ideas in his/her own work.

That said, if you wrote shit in internet, let me assure you, it is almost useless for training writing AI. Believe me, I tried to do it on dataset of /r/writingprompts, the thing is that most writing there just sucks, which is not bad, as the only way of learning to write is by writing, thus putting bad work on the internet. It doesn't change the fact that it objectively sucks.

If I wanted to write an actual writing AI I would use a collection of classical works, works that stood the test of time, and frankly, the difference between those and what is put on internet is often in how scenes and characters are flushed out.

It took me 26 days to walk 800km. It would take me 6ish weeks to walk 1200 km, it would be a full time job, but it's definitely doable.

Yeah, this is why they were tested. I remember reading about US military using AR goggles a decade ago, specifically back then they were being tested by mechanics and maintenance workers, and the advertisement said that AR will show them where to check what and will show manuals, documentation, etc. While they worked.

Even back then I wondered if it won't make them nauseous.

How well would it work, and how much would it cost? GPU instances are not cheap, and each minute thousands of hours of YouTube videos are uploaded.

Viruses aren't thinkers, they are pushed by laws of natural selection, and those laws can find more than one "good enough" solution, and they often do.

It's true that natural selection often pushed viruses to be more mild but the exact opposite can happen, where natural selection pushed viruses to be super heavily virulent, infect millions of cells, make billions of viruses, cause the organism to spread the virus to a lot of other organisms, and finally die off. Thing is, at least in humans, these viruses "burn" through population rather quickly, and then population becomes immune to them.

Check out deadly yet not-so-dradly viruses, like measals or smallpox. If population of humans has never been exposed to these diseases previously, they will absolutely ravage that population, think native Americans after European arrived. That's maybe 90% of population dead. Yet for most of us measals is not that deadly.

It's not about shouting, it's about cramming as much profanities into a unit of time as possible. You see, now I can call your mother a cow with my mouth while I tell you to fuck yourself with my fingers.

Nice. But I don't see any rice in it...

The skills of agriculture and irregation were also essential for survival, and would make you rich when you sold your bountiful harvest, yet they were lost, entire regions with huge irregation systems were abandoned, and even hundreds of years later were not inhabited.

This completely ignores the loss of knowledge that was the result of bronze age collapse. Entire regions "forgot" how to write and "forgot" agricultural techniques like irregation, so why couldn't they forget how to make good quality iron?

It's a mystery. But research suggest that on early stages both a period of bad climate (which lead to food shortage) and earthquicks (which destroyed cities) were responsible. Wars followed that.

I'm pretty sure there are some evidence of mass migration from today's northern Italy to Greece, and that's based on pins found along the way. Although it's possible those cloth pins were just being traded.

The "IT" is the mistery. It probably was a combination of climate change (which caused food shortages), shitty natural phenomena (i.e. earthquicks in Greece) and complex military blocks going to war with each other. It's perfectly possible that "sea people" were nothing more than totally-not-guys-from-other-military-alliance doing what privateers do. It's also possible that one faction discovered iron working and decided to strike with their more advanced, better working new shiny tools, or discovered new techniques that made chariots obsolete.

Regarding migrations, always take legends with a giant grain of salt. Spartans had a legend saying they are sons of Hercules who came back to Greece from the north and enslaved the local population.

Yeah, no. For starters, both human and neanderthal population dropped significantly at around 70 000ish years ago, probably due to some kind of cataclysmic event (a supervulcano eruption was long suspected but it might not have been the cause). Human population recovered, neanderthal population didn't.

But even if it did, would you be able to tell neanderthal apart from modern humans?

EDIT: also the last known neanderthal population seem to have died out during time of periodic climate change that would have fucked with their food supply.

Also homo sapiens almost went extinct 70 000 ish years ago.

I mean yeah, their DNA is in all human population, except for sub-saharan Africa. There definitely was interbreeding. Devisovians are another interesting sub-species, and we have found remains of individual with neanderthal and devisovian parents.

You joke but I can assure you, they have files on every single person in the UK.

The other day I watched a podcast with FBI agent who destroyed Silk Road, and within 10 minutes the host was saying you wouldn't believe this but... Oh, I know, we know you are connected to creators of Tor, we have files on everyone and the host was like that was my PhD advisor's sisters friend's husband or some shit like that.