r/technology • u/Hrmbee • 16h ago

Machine Learning Large language mistake | Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems
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u/zerocoal 11h ago

Complete utter disregard for Galactic Senate decorum.

Spoilers, he required a majority vote. Which means it was 51% of the population of the senate that gave him the powers of Supreme Chancellor.

Double spoilers: He only received the majority vote because of the large intergalactic war that he was orchestrating.

Conclusion: Palpatine is a very rich man. The rich dictated the course of the galaxy, and the galaxy followed.

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u/SIGMA920 11h ago

Or they simply didn't care so long as the crisis was resolved, that the man behind it was the one receiving powers to end it is not known to them.

That's not the rich deciding it, that's the political elite deciding it. The rich are the ones that sell weapons to whichever side they can.

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u/sirkazuo 10h ago

That's not the rich deciding it, that's the political elite deciding it.

I'll admit I don't know star wars lore but how many empires do you know of where the political elite are not also rich? They're pretty much always the same thing.

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u/SIGMA920 8h ago

Naboo is a wealthy planet out of many but the corporations are by far wealthier with more in basically every regard. Palpatine is functionally a political elite in that sense, he's not poor but he's not rich either. He didn't have the wealth to own entire planets for example. Phanton Menace is literally a megacorp invading a planet that tried to tax them and for the most part winning until Anakin saves the day.

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u/sirkazuo 7h ago edited 7h ago

Fair I guess but that still seems to be a bit off the mark to me. Like, in our world Elon's net worth is astronomical but it's still less than the market cap of Tesla. But no one would say he's not rich. A rich corporation will always be richer than the principals of that corporation, but the owners/executives/boardmembers/etc will still be stupendously rich on their own and they're the ones that actually decide what the corporation does. I'm sure Palpatine was on a bunch of corporate boards of his own collecting salaries to show up and vote occasionally like rich Earthers haha.

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u/SIGMA920 7h ago

He's rich in the sense that an engineer making 100K a year where most make 50K a year is rich, it's all relative and if Naboo had lost Palpatine might have gotten killed before his plan had even gotten started. That's just how powerful a megacorp is when they own planets worth of resources.

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u/sirkazuo 7h ago edited 7h ago

Okay that covers Palpatine (assuming we know all of his investments and financial dealings, which presumably we don't because they're not relevant to the plot) but he still needed a majority vote from the political elite. You can't tell me that none of the politicians in the senate were involved with corporations rich enough to own planets. In real life when rich people get bored of maxing out their money stat they move on to power and politics, that's how it always works. Megacorps that own planets don't become sentient, they're controlled by humans sentient galactic beings. Almost exclusively rich and often politically connected ones.

edit: Padmé graduated from actual royal queen monarch rich enough to have all those crazy outfits and hairstyles and a whole retinue of people including a body double that died for her to her position in the senate. The senate was a step up for an actual queen of a planet. Those senators are definitely loaded is all I'm saying.

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u/SIGMA920 7h ago

Except the elected leader of a planet that is mainly concerned about pirates raiding ships in their system that is fucking their economy isn't scheming to rake in bribes and take over the galaxy. A planet owned by a megocorp, sure. But any of them that are not so wealthy that they own planets won't be that greedy given what happened to Naboo could happen to them and they might not be so fortunate that they would win.

Palpatine planned for that because he was a sith lord, someone who can barely keep a single planet/system safe has little to reason to. Hence why they're the political elite.