Has anyone heard of Boom Supersonic? Supposedly the company is making a new SST that is supposed to be able to go supersonic without the sonic boom hitting the ground by flying at or above 50,000 feet. They did a demo flight using a a plane that doesn’t use the engine tech that the prospective finished plane will have nor does it resemble the prospective airframe design, so it seems like they went fast to prove fast plane is fast I guess?
Plot twist: the basilisk was us all along.
“ChatGPT, does the fringe on the flag mean that this is an Admiralty court? Also, please enlighten me on the finer points of bird law.”
Remember Friendster? It’s back, in slop form!
If you do it from the duck’s perspective it still breaks.
Why does Reachy 2 have a tank top? Are they shy about their bot nipples or something?
Thus, what appears as intellectual fast food – the ultra-processed thought-nuggets deep fried in venture capital – often conceals wholesome ingredients sourced from a gourmet pantry of quite some sophistication.
What am I even reading.
This demo is powered by a “World and Human Action Model” (WHAM)
George Michael must be spinning in his grave
“imagine a perfectly spherical chud of uniform duncity…”
Well has anyone tried prompting it in EBCDIC? How do we know doing so won’t immediately create the super intelligence that "or whatever"s us to silicon Valhalla? Asking for a friend.
Oh, is that what the orb was doing? I thought that was just a scam.
Imagine a perfectly spherical scientist…
Get in losers, we’re pivoting to crypto ai quantum
As an app fondler with 20 years of experience, it’s also “fuck my life”
Yeah, and a lot of the answers he gave seemed to originate from that point.
One particularly grating thing was saying that the left needs to embrace AI to fight facism because “facism embraced AI and they are doing well!” which is just so grating a conclusion to jump to.
Got to a point in this where Casey Newton enumerated his “only two sides” of AI and well, fuck Casey Newton.
So I enjoy the Garbage Day newsletter, but this episode of Panic World with Casey Newton is just painful, in the way that Casey is just spitting out unproven assertions.
This just hit my inbox (and spurred me to unsubscribe from future BuiltIn slop) and man, so tired of this sort of mindless drivel. Like companies still have trouble with basic application and management processes, but magic robot will fix? Fucking hell.
EZ is a PR person, and definitely has a PR person vibe. I don’t know what that poster’s deal is, and I would not accuse Ed of being an AI bro. That post kind of has “haters gonna hate” vibes
It doesn’t seem like a viable thing. Is there really enough demand for a supersonic commercial flight with the seating capacity of a regional? The company claims that major airlines have already committed to purchasing the yet-to-exist plane, which begs the question “how committed?” I would highly doubt that without a demonstrator specifically for the passenger version, that any airline would put down any amount of money. I have been known to underestimate the foolishness of leadership, so maybe there is an inked deal as opposed to a handshake for x number of planes, though only at y price.
In concept, supersonic aircraft are cool. Going fast is really neat. I think those are the feelings Boom is banking on, which is sad because I feel that their airliner is vaporware.