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The "self-operating computer"

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By scooby

 This may be an exciting AI development -- a prototype of the "self-operating computer":


https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-self-operating-computer-emerges/

This sounds like something that would be very useful for those with disabilities and the elderly, in the near term, of course it could also represent an important step towards automating away many jobs.

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Anonymous said…

LANL is now "The AI" lab. We do production, weapons, a force for good and AI!!!.

LANL is just getting weirder and weirder now. Mason just gave a talk yesterday saying how LANL publications numbers are dropping, while ANL, ORNL and even LLNL are increasing. What is odd is that the LANL has grown twice in size, yet is doing less and less science. Now we are going to be the AI lab? Huh, does any of this make any sense? People are saying that management is now making this up as they go and have no idea what is going on.
12/02/2023 6:20 AM
Anonymous said…
Mason’s view of success has always been a warm body count. It is surreal to listen to the man, or most of his upper management sycophants. They are super proud of things like new parking garages. Shopping malls in Mississippi build new parking garages without the need to brag about them.
12/02/2023 11:30 AM
Anonymous said…

"Mason’s view of success has always been a warm body count"

I think we should pitch that we could use AI to replace management at LANL. I think it would be more rational and efficient.

I agree that the the current LANL management is not evil like Bechtel, but it is just sort of mediocre. There is only box checking. It is almost like the want LANL to be as big as possible so that if and when the pits are not built, we will just be to big to fail. This could explain the motto "interview 500" hire "500" statement. I simply do not get the strategy for success at the place now. Bechtel had goal to get all they money they could, anyway they can, within a 10-15 year time period and then leave. You can say what you want about LANS but they accomplished pretty much exactly they set out to do. Bechtel has a pretty clear game plan everywhere they go. The money comes from the leverage not the contracts.

TRIAD seems to have no clear plan at all but just hire more and more people, do more and more paper work, get rid of science, and bribe New Mexico.

12/02/2023 10:35 PM
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