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So, they seized the shipment but did they actually find anything wrong with the product?

Was any testing done? None is reported in this article.

Radiation testing of fish since last month, found any problems yet?

They're looking for something they won't find, or will 'invent' and there is no real intent of 'public safety' here.

Next year, put some humans in a horse costume and have them run the track themselves. See how they like it.

Write code better than most humans? No, not true.

The humans has understanding of what the code does, the LLM does not have this understanding at all. That makes a large difference.

The LLM can indeed create code quickly, and really quite good, but as the requirements get complicated, it starts to make dumb mistakes really easily (so do humans) and often completely fails to step toward a solution and instead will bounce between the current wrong answer and the previous wrong answer. Although, to be fair, I've seen similar among human coders!

LLM can code, yes, but it cannot code better than a (skilled) human. It can absolutely be used to make that smart human faster, but (competent) coders are not worrying about their jobs.

Yet more FUD and hyperbole. Artists complaining about AI image generators may as well be portrait painters in the time when cameras were invented. They Took Our Jobs! Cameras are evil! Nah, it's just progress, move with the times.

Do we want the world to have banned the camera, so painters can keep their jobs?

Prevent the development of the car, so horses can keep their jobs?

Ban the electric lightbulb because it reduced sales of candles?

Outlaw medical research so witchdoctors and scammers can remain employed?

That's just not how the world works. In a short time, "is AI taking our Jobs" style articles with be viewed with the ridicule of the flag-man of history, who had to walk in front of a car so people knew the car was there.

I strongly dislike it. Never even been able to complete the login process for the website. Monthly payment is too high, and payout too low. I'd rather save and invest the money myself. Having this as non-optional is basically just another tax.

Tell_me_bout_itToday  05:16 pm JST

Riddiculous how Iphones are Suica/Pasmo applicable and Androids are not.

This country loves everything murican.

Um.... Android is American.

I don't understand why drugs are illegal.

If they were fully legal, I still wouldn't take them.

Just like non-smokers don't suddenly smoke because they see a pack in a shop.

Can't we just let people do what they want, rather than what we tell them to? When did we all become owned slaves?

StigToday  07:05 am JST

She will spend the rest of her days in Western Europe, North America and Japan though should think twice about flying from Japan to Europe over Asia.

You understand that Japan is IN Asia, right? How do you propose they fly from Japan to anywhere without flying over Asia?

Just improve the electricity system, it's an antique right now.

Massive solar fields, hydro, nuclear, gasifier powerplants etc.

So many people can see into the future, it seems.

What happens when the water is released and these tests show no difference in the before & after? Wouldn't that prove that releasing this water is totally safe?

Buckle up for the abject lack of news stories about this, because the release will have zero effect on anything.

@Wallace

But the Japanese need to collect the bones of their deceased loved ones. 

No, they "want" to collect. There is no necessity to this practice at all. It's not like the person is going to come back to life and reprimand them.

Once a person is dead, their body is pointless, get rid of it.

Remember the person's life, their achievements, their love and happiness; not the sorrow of their death.

Rare? I've got two of them stuffed in the bottom of a drawer some place.

@falseflagsteve

[...] to make the decent moral people not have to worry about their safety.

and you would define who is moral and who is not, I assume?

What kind of morality allows for enforcing your opinion on others?

@Harry

Lawson do know more than a little about marketing. The key here is the sentence in the article "The combination is designed to appeal to regular egg eaters, who are being encouraged to compare the two varieties,....." the key word being "compare". If Lawson get enough positive feedback then the faux egg version will prevail.

Yeah, but eat no meat, and often have the egg mayo sandwiches, but I can't try this one at all, as it has meat. So I'm a regular egg eater that they are targeting.

All they had to do was release a regular egg mayo sandwich, with the plant based egg as the second one in the pack.

Ooh, a new plant based sandwich? Great, I can't wait to try it.... oh, it has that Japanese vegetable called 'ham'? PASS.

There are two possibilities here.

One, is that the marketers behind this are completely clueless and have no idea that some people do not eat animal products, and the sandwich exists because egg prices have been increasing constantly.

Two is that, by adding the ingredient to a meat sandwich, and directly comparing it to real egg, people are likely to buy it, and be impressed at how good it is, which may open the market for more products.

While everyone can buy a vegetarian / plant based sandwich, many meat eaters will actively choose not to because they think it will taste bad. Convincing the public that it can be good, would lead to significantly higher future sales.

I just wish it wasn't all soy based though. Anyone ever tried a Quorn burger? Those are really good.

If you don't get paid enough in your job, get a different job.

Nothing has been stolen.

The people complaining that their work has been stolen can go check if it is still where they left it. I can't claim my car is stolen while still having the damn car.

The AI systems have been trained in exactly the same way a human is trained. Do we accuse parents of stealing art because they took their child to a gallery so the kid could look at paintings?

The AI (LLM) really is working just like a human. If you have a human read all Shakespeare again and again for ten years, and then ask that person a question about a specific thing in any book - you get an answer. If you ask him to write a birthday card greeting in the style of Shakespeare, you'll probably get something pretty good. Is this person guilty of theft or copyright infringement? No. They just had too much time on their hands.

Now have that person study EVERYTHING. Boom, there's your ChatGPT.

Build Radium salt reactors everywhere. That would solve the energy and pollution problems.

Of course it does, this entire thing is being over hyped by hysterical people and the media.

Did someone post them a floppy drive containing the virus?

I've watched construction here, and it is terrifying. No harnesses, climbing on scaffolding instead of using a cherry-picker or even a ladder. Health and Safety is out of control in the UK, but at times like this, I'm glad it exists. Here, construction seems to be rather haphazard.

If Taiwan wasn't worth Billions on the global market for it's microchip production, I wonder if China would be so keen on acquiring the independent country in the first place?

Just make some decent cheese and sell it for a reasonable price.

Someone will undoubtably sell them out. I hope the guilt of such an action will haunt them forever.

I strongly doubt that the 'crimes' these people are accused of would be considered as anything at all in a reasonable country.

A chef uses a knife wrap for this reason (heavy canvas roll up 'bag'). Also, they don't normally take their knives home. His story seems a little suspicious.

Almost no-one smokes on streets here.

America insists life is so important that it must enslave its citizens into becoming parents against their will, while continuing to allow anyone to buy a gun and kill people with it at will, because America.

You wanna ban abortion while allowing citizens to buy guns, you've got a problem in your belief system.

Driving in Japan is crazy expensive and toll roads are difficult if not impossible to avoid.

Numerous things that need to be fixed here, such as fixing the toll areas so this tailgating does not work; removing the toll areas completely; and improving the lousy police system that took three years and 850 instances of a crime before they put down their ramen and picked up a pen.

@Jim: Some evil people deserve the death penalty rather than years behind bars which cost tax payers a lot!

It's a different country, so the numbers won't be accurate, but this is information you may not have:

"The study counted death penalty case costs through to execution and found that the median death penalty case costs $1.26 million. Non-death penalty cases were counted through to the end of incarceration and were found to have a median cost of $740,000."

https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/76th2011/ExhibitDocument/OpenExhibitDocument?exhibitId=17686&fileDownloadName=h041211ab501_pescetta.pdf

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal