Speaking of Seattle, the 99 tunnel was pretty large in scope with the world's largest tunnel boring machine. Construction started in 2013 and opened to traffic in 2019.
"Boring of the tunnel with the 57.5-foot (17.5 m) diameter "Bertha," at the time the world's largest-diameter tunnel-boring machine, began on July 30, 2013,[69][70] and at the time was expected to be completed in 14 months" [1]
We also have the lightrail projects with total funding of over $54 billion. Pretty large in scope with variability in success and budget[2]
> Pretty large in scope with variability in success and budget[2]
Sound Transit would have better luck if they weren't forced to work under so many constraints.
Because money trickles in slowly, and because funding has to come from different cities in a predetermined way, they are stuck with speculators buying up property before Sound Transit is allowed to, and then selling it to ST for inflated prices.
Cities that need mass transit right now are not allowed to pay for transit to be built faster in their area.
And of course everyone loves to sue them, costing even more $.
I still have not figured out why the holy hell there isn't commercial real estate built along with all sound transit stations. We have these large expensive stations that are devoid of any commercial activity, meanwhile Japan sticks Michelin Star restaurants in their transit stations.
The Roosevelt station is a notable example of this, huge station, takes up lots of the block, and it is tall, why aren't there at least 2 or even 3 levels of retail space in it?
>I still have not figured out why the holy hell there isn't commercial real estate built along with all sound transit stations. We have these large expensive stations that are devoid of any commercial activity, meanwhile Japan sticks Michelin Star restaurants in their transit stations.
In general, the opposite complaint has been raised: US station platforms are too large!
I don't know how they do it in Japan, but the train station in Rome has all of the services above ground in a normal building, away from the tracks, while when I've seen coffeeshops and the like at subways in the US, they're often on the platform or at least underground. DC has some truly cavernous stations full of a lot of signs and stale air (and not much else).
So it seems like part of the problem is that the subway authority is confined to an unreasonably tight definition of where they can operate, and then they try to cram a camel through the eye of the needle.
I do think the push for ethics in AI is important. As much as these functions do get sidelined in the prioritization process as outlined in the parent comment, the intent of introducing the rigor is valid.
Google has been having a hard time making an LLM product. It's sad to see them having this sort of ordering the burning of the ships of Zheng He moment.
How is Timnit a fraud? Why are you scare quoting "research"? It's well written imo and has over 128 sources.
I'd think that in light of all the problems we've seen with chatGPT "hallucinating" answers it reinforces their concerns about "stochastic parrots" more than anything.
I mean, if you have specific grievances, please do share them as this is an important conversation, but as of now your comment amounts to mudslinging and no substance.
Medical research cleared this hurdle a long time ago. Table 1 is always demographics of your population sample, allowing outsiders to assess your generalizability by age, gender, race, and a host of other factors that are often context-dependent.
Thing is, what gets called "AI ethics" actually has approximately* nothing to do with AI.
It's all about whichever field the particular use-case belongs to, and would lose nothing by seeing the AI as a black box.
* IIRC there have been issues with models that find correlations being presented as finding causality. That is something that belongs to AI as a field; other people can't evaluate your stuff accurately if you've misinformed them about its capabilities.
