lots of different ways, the loss of a child the potential loss of two children, the powerlessness and despair the parents would have been feeling... turning to AI which might have a positive outcome but many of us are not very trusting of the tool.
Its a sad story. I wish them well, I hope this is one of those scenarios that AI works exactly as desired.
My technical take from this story was that human-run labs turned out to be less reliable than current AI.
This is the sort of performance/quality gap that is not obviously seen (who in the general population understands lab protocols in detail?) and could be massively improved with AI.
This idea is based on the false assumption that there are no pre-existing laws for seas. There is a UN treaty and there are maritime laws and unwritten seamen laws. And the latest date way back in history.
Pretending that seas are virgin territories as regards laws is a misconception.
I don't think the idea is based on that assumption. It's okay if there are international maritime laws, as long as they don't prohibit this sort of activity (I have no idea whether they do or don't).
These sorts of laws could even conceivably offer some protection to such a venture.
The most fundamental law, and one that effectively negates all floating "new country" ventures, is that any vessel that is not "flagged" by a real country is classified as a pirate vessel and will be taken over by any country, on the high seas most likely by the US Coast Guard which is the most widespread and aggressive enforcement presence on the high seas.
If your vessel is flagged, then this isn't a problem, but you must abide by the laws of the flagging nation. And, in international water, you are still vulnerable to random searches by the Coast Guard if for any reason they get their back up.
The people are much more pragmatic than the project sounds; they are thinking about how much autonomy is even possible, realistically. Maritime laws are seemingly one of the simplest issues out there.
You know little about the Chinese education system.
All Chinese kids (I was one of them) are basically trained for these kinds of standard tests. For the most part of their school life, they are judged by the scores they get. The whole point of the system is not to educate, but to test, and based on scores, pick the few at the top for better schools to go next year, and the process repeats. This pattern starts from primary schools all up to graduate schools. That's all freaking 16 years!
It is no surprise they score high in this one. They do not need to cheat. Of course if they want they can, but my point still holds: they are battle-tested “exam machines”.
The problem, though, is that the approach kills creativity and innovation.
Threat? Hell no. As long as the States keeps recruiting the best minds with scholarship and offers visa for them to stay working there, I don't see any chance the States will fall behind in smartness.
