
Jurassic Feathered Park
The wheel of time turns, the cycle repeats, and jurassic park The movie will be released this year. Due to the presence of manager Gareth Edwards, who has a track record of success, there is some hope for feedback. monster and godzilla That he could direct a movie that featured giant creatures. Still, yawn.
While we wait with bated breath, YouTuber CoolioArt is providing us with dinosaur footage to keep us occupied. They used the animation tool Blender to redo key scenes from the original. jurassic parkIn order to give Velociraptor Feather. So far they’ve done the kitchen scene and the climactic scene in the visitor center (last minute, spoiler alert, tyrannosaurus rex can save you from a predicament).
The animation is really good considering the amateurish nature of the project. But one problem remains. That means the raptor is still too big. You know, despite his reputation for careful research; jurassic park Author Michael Crichton had a tendency to get things horribly wrong.
Crichton’s biggest scientific failure was probably his 2004 climate change novel state of fear. The film features environmental terrorists who fake natural disasters to convince the world of the dangers of global warming. They must do so because in the world of this book, all scientific evidence that greenhouse gas emissions are heating the climate is flawed or fabricated.
There’s even a series of pages devoted to graphs showing local temperature declines from US weather stations, which for some reason are thought to be more meaningful than global average temperature trends. I am. Crichton also recycles the myth that warming trends are the product of “urban heat islands.” It’s like a book made from a terrible Reddit thread.
flat jurassic parkCrichton’s most famous work was also unaffected. He wanted to feature dromaeosaur dinosaurs. Because they were understood to be fast and intelligent hunters, as opposed to logging dinosaurs. tyrannosaurus. Unfortunately, the scariest one had a name that Crichton didn’t think was cool – Deinonychus antilopus – I mean, he used all the details of that kind, but called them incorrectly Velociraptor.
That’s why in books and movies, adults Velociraptor It is about the same height as a human. in fact, Velociraptor It was as tall as a turkey. I imagine the feedback is angry Velociraptor It still has the potential to cause problems for humans, but it’s not the same when a fearsome predator is the size of an average toddler.
Ironically, the evidence that dromaeosaurs were feathered was fairly vague in the 1990s, so presenting the raptor as featherless was justified, but triple its height. That wasn’t fair.
This also explains why CoolioArt overdubbed some of the dialogue in the kitchen clip. When the girl whispers, “What is that?”, a female voice dubbed into the boy’s voice cheerfully says, “What is that?” deinonychus”. 10/10, no notes.
AI for roads
Sometimes, on a gray Monday when a column deadline looms, Feedback can be found scurrying around for story ideas. Because no one has ever done anything particularly stupid in front of us. But on Monday, January 13th, the next item fell into our laps.
The UK government has announced it will “unleash” AI, citing its “huge potential” to improve the country’s declining public services. This vision of the future is called the AI Opportunity Action Plan. Based on the feedback, we feel that the name could have used a little more work. It is abbreviated as AIOAP and sounds like this: terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to make a movie when he becomes an old-age pensioner himself at the age of 85.
AIOAP contains many suggestions, one of which caught the eye of the feedback. According to BBC News, “AI will inspect roads through cameras across the country, identifying potholes that need to be repaired.”
Like a rabbit caught in the headlights, or perhaps more aptly, like a driver headed straight for a hole because he’s being tailgated and has no room to maneuver, the feedback is stunned by the illusory nature of this vision. However, I found myself staring blankly into space ahead of me. .
I’m not questioning whether AI can be trained to find potholes. On the contrary, it will probably work quite well. Rather, I’m concerned that this will solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
The BBC reported in March 2024 that roads in England and Wales are riddled with potholes, with the backlog of repairs estimated to cost £16.3 billion. That’s nowhere near the amount Elon Musk paid to buy Twitter, but it’s still roughly equivalent to Jamaica’s GDP. Additionally, your feedback demonstrates our deep knowledge of the large number of potholes in our local area, many of which have been left unrepaired for months.
So the problem doesn’t seem to be a lack of knowledge about where the holes are. If the potholes had not been cleared, there would not have been enough backlog to cover the cost of building multiple high-rise buildings. This is doubly true on roads with enough traffic to allow cameras to be installed.
Rather, the problem seems to be in making the actual repairs. Feedback doesn’t tell us how AI will help with that. No, you need to look at genetics.
The only solution is for Ron Swanson’s clone army to go and fill the void.
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