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A tree previously thought to have been extinct has been rediscovered in Brazil, in an "incredible find."
Scientists said that they discovered the tree, which had not been seen in almost 200 years, in an urban area in Igarassu, northeastern Brazil, the Belgian news outlet The Brussels Times reported.
The tree, called the Ilex sapiiformis also known as the Pernambuco holly, was first recorded in 1838, and, until recently, this was the only confirmed sighting. However, scientists, part of a project supported by conservation group Re:wild, discovered it once again after a six-day expedition.
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You learn something new every day; what did you learn today? Submit interesting and specific facts about something that you just found out here.
There's a machine, it's not working, you know (or have access to people who know) everything there is to know about getting it working, and you die if you don't pull it off.
Who just gives up and dies?
Kind of an aside, but this exact logic is why I'm hopeful about climate change.
It's like the classic "rabbit season, duck season" Looney Tunes bit. It works best when at least one party in an argument doesn't have an actual position, other than that the other person is wrong. Their reflexive contrarianism can be used against them.
This. There is a common belief among conservative pro-lifers that pregnancy/childbirth is a natural event which female bodies are "designed to do," so therefore it's "safe" and rarely goes wrong. The possibility that a pregnancy might hurt/kill the mother or that the fetus may be nonviable never crosses their minds, because they truly believe that pregnancy is nothing more than a nuisance to the woman.
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I was trying to think what would make a machine happy,
Whatever the programmers want it to do. It's not necessarily "reward" in the sense that the computer "wants" to create any particular response, it's that the program is designed to receive feedback on whether what it did was "good" or "bad" so it can find the patterns inherent in each response and sort between them. The AI is designed to spit out things that fit the "good" patterns and not ones flagged as "bad" or unwanted responses. This is similar to training a dog, but instead of giving the dog a treat to tell him that he was good, a computer just needs someone to click a button to confirm that it was the "right" response.
Again, the computer doesn't have any underlying motive or knowledge of what it's doing, it's just carrying out whatever its programmer tells it is important. Notably, an early Microsoft AI experiment created a program designed to generate Twitter posts with the most engagement. It was programmed to generate and post content, analyze how much engagement each post got, and iterate off of "successful" high engagement posts. Within 24 hours, the bot was posting virulently racist content and had to be taken offline because it had "learned" that offensive posts got the most engagement from trolls, and its programming never specified a specific type of engagement or post that was acceptable.
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r/medicine is a virtual lounge for physicians and other medical professionals from around the world to talk about the latest advances, controversies, ask questions of each other, have a laugh, or share a difficult moment. This is a highly moderated subreddit. Please read the rules carefully before posting or commenting.
There was also the Columbus newspaper which decided that ChatGPT was ready to entirely replace their sports reporter for generating reports of high school games. It was not, and hilarity ensued.
Fortunately, the consequences weren't severe in this case, but what happens when someone decides to blindly entrust life-or-death decisions to an AI? People have no idea what the technology isn't capable of yet, they just see all the hype in the news and assume that AI is some kind of magic human replacement instead of an augmentative tool.