Sounds like the story of capitalism. CEOs, VPs, and middle managers are all similarly pressured. Knowing that a few of your peers have given in to pressures must only add to the pressure. I think it's fair to conclude that capitalism erodes ethics by default
Readit NewsJoshTko commented on Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs arxiv.org/abs/2512.20798... · Posted by u/tiny-automates
What airtags need is a theft mode, where anyone carrying the airtag is not alerted, but the location can be retrieved by an approved local authority after being voluntarily surrendered by the owner.
The challenge is how you prevent such features being abused by like stalkers
I’m guessing Meta isn’t the only one doing this
"ChatGPT can you give me a catchy phrase I can use to sway the public discourse against Meta that puts OpenAI in the most favorable light? Also sprinkle in some alliteration if you could"
The FTC will do nothing. Not under Trump.
Competitors just need to lobby sufficiently to get action
JoshTko commented on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application ikuyo.kenrick95.org/... · Posted by u/kenrick95
What key feature are you providing that can't be easily done by a google sheet?
> B/W cameras and AI.
You forgot multi-spectral. That means single hires images for a lot of frequency ranges, which is better than a single color image, which merges together all frequencies at once.
In the end the accuracy of detections, false-positives, false-negatives wins. And this not comparable to this certain car company which refuses to use proper sensors. we also do infrared, 3d pointclouds to get the angle at each pixel, and thermal imaging.
another neighbor of us is doing real-time imaging for face detection, which is the industry leader world-wide. They can install a lot of cheap cams in football stadiums and give you a list of all 80.000 people, when they have access to the government passport/driver license photo database. they have. but they cannot detect virus infections as we can do. nor bacterial infections. only if they do something illegal. who threw a bengal fire or started a fight.
This. Mass Spectrometry should portably only be used to confirm/train AI vision models. Once a large enough data set has been created for a particular pathogen, incremental diagnostic cost would be effectively 0.
JoshTko commented on Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English accent-strength.boldvoice... · Posted by u/ilyausorov
Victor's problem isn't really the vowels or pacing. The final consonants are soft or not really audible. I am not hearing the /ŋ/ of "long" as the most marked example. It sounds closer to "law". In his "improved" recording he hasn't fixed this.
I sometimes see content on social media encouraging people to sound more native or improve their accent. But IMO it's perfectly ok to have an accent, as long as the speech meets some baseline of intelligibility. (So Victor needs to work on "long" but not "days".) I've even come across people who are trying to mimick a native accent but lose intelligibility, where they'd sound better with their foreign accent. (An example I've seen is a native Spanish speaker trying to imitate the American accent's intervocalic T and D, and I don't understand them. A Spanish /t/ or /d/ would be different from most English language accents, but be way more understandable.)
Thank you for pinpoints my confusion/disconnect on what lack of improvement that I was sensing. There was an improvement on pacing, and cadence, yes, but that was not the main challenge with Victors accent. Visually I'd say victor improved by at most 5% and not 50% as indicated by the visualization. In some regards it was even harder to understand than the original due to speed and cadence without improvement in core pronunciation.
JoshTko commented on People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies rollingstone.com/culture/... · Posted by u/wzm
1. It feels like those old Rolling Stone pieces from the late ’90s and early ’00s about kids who couldn’t tear themselves away from their computers. Fear was overblown, but made headlines.
2. OpenAI has admitted that GPT‑4o showed “sycophancy” traits and has since rolled them back (see https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/).
The societal brain drain damage that infinite scroll has caused is definitely not overblown. These models are about to kick this problem up to the next level, when each clip is dynamically generated to maximise resonance with you.
JoshTko commented on People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies rollingstone.com/culture/... · Posted by u/wzm
How do you know the models are actually managing and not simply amplifying?