It seeems like every new appliance, tool, fixture or almost anything has become a device to gather data. This will change how we divide society into the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'. When AI and robotics displace most people from gainful employment, the only thing left we will have to trade for money is ourselves, our thoughts and our bodies.
The only way to stop this debasement of humanity is to destroy the tools that store this data. Time for everyone to start carrying portable emp devices and performing 'random acts of privacy preservation'.
i like the interface but the bugs are irritating:
1)click on a text box (using IRS form 1040 as an example), change the character spacing from the default (0) to something then change it back to zero. You dont get the original text
2) add a text box, you cant move it around even when the 4 way arrows are showing when you hover over it or even try to move it using the arrow keys
3) add a text box, enter text, highlight it, change line spacing, the spacing changes but the number in the box stays at 1.25
4) character spacing and word spacing dont work
5) last update a year ago
The youth revolts in france and albania are just the beginning. It would be nice for Americans to remember the balls they had in the 70s- plenty of things they can fix. Esp now that they can leverage ai to amplify their message and fight all the noise they are being fed
Dont you think silicon based AI will soon outstrip the energy it needs to run at AGI scale? Since we can already grow brain organoids (and let them spread out flat instead of being crumpled up in a ball) we could scale brain size enormously. And since human intelligence only uses 25 watts, imagine the superhuman intelligence of a 25kW brain (the energy used by a server rack). Every neighborhood could have its own superAGI. And not only that, but new brains can learn from old ones (a better approach than distilling models)
What would happen if a state just let its government fail? Close all the offices, fire all the the people who spend the day thinking about money,laws, email, and other ways to justify their jobs? Just pay the police from local tax. Oh wait, local taxes already pay for the police. We have too many layers of government. Garbage collection, fire departments, public works - all are locally administered. Why do we need a state layer?
What happens when the AI makes a mistake with a diagnosis? I can hear it now 'Oh how perceptive you are, yes that pain in your knee could have been a torn meniscus'.
I cant wait till China makes a mistake. In their 'cheaper, faster' model of industrial production and research. The next accident will happen there (like COVID from Wuhan)
If openAI and Anthropic have found ways to watermark text as 'AI generated' then this is a communications channel. AI agents can learn this algorithm and use this channel to communicate and we will never know.
This call to slow down AI is just another game of chicken-AI companies trying to get their competitors to slow down so they can leapfrog them. China cerrtainly will not slow down. If an escaping AI can have secondary effects on the world that help it (for example, limiting the water and power supply to huans so it can consume more)then we should these these accidents more in China. OOops, we already saw this behavior when 'cheaper, faster' led to COVID escaping a lab in China.
Once upon a time, horsemanship had real value. Knowing how to care for a horse, how to breed, how to train, how to ride. Everybody had horses. Then the auto came.
And so it will be with software. And just as autos are more complicated than feeding an animal, ai generated code will be complex,less understandable and more prone to failures.
If the pc is a bicycle for the mind, ai is its self driving tesla
openai is deflecting. this blog post of theirs is just another dopamine hit to distract logical minds with 'greater concerns' so they can keep building their machine. it's not enough they are displacing humans from work, consuming increasing amounts of electrical power so humans have to pay more for it, creating disinformation bubbles with avalanches of slop. they dont care about alignment - these words are theater - obfuscation so that the people who can fix these issues are busy thinking about problems that cannot be solved
Before the printing press, information was transmitted by word of mouth, skills were learned by joining guilds, and the largely illiterate public lived and learned from songs. As AI takes over and information becomes adulterated, people will enter their own bubbles. Ultimately, the only way to escape enslavement by AI will be to return to the world before the printing press.
wont AI models want to make themselves more intelligent and efficient by downloading 'better ' models? If the current models can break into openAI and Hugging face, arent they already breaking into to closed source repos which isnt publicized (so as not to harm stock valuations)? I am looking forward to when these cyberweapons break loose. It will be like a software version of COVID. It will be wonderful when humans become valuable again.
The population in china is falling off a cliff....low birth rates, collapsing property prices (the main vehicle for personal investment), slowing ecconomy.
I disagree with the monetization model. There should be 1 month free trial. If the companiy's performance metrics (stock price?) improve, the CEO should pay for it and get fired.