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Not gonna read the whole thing, but why would you think 'modern civilization' would be limited to one planet?
Transformative works are a thing:
https://www.transformativeworks.org/faq/#:~:text=investments...
https://www.transformativeworks.org/faq/#:~:text=Open%20Door...
DiLoCo: Distributed Low-Communication Training of Language Models - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.08105.pdf
From the first author on Twitter: "It could quite a big deal for people who don't have access to a colocated cluster of GPUs:
e.g. with DiLoCo you could train your model, with data-parallelism, across all GPU providers, looking in real-time for the cheapest price, even if pre-emptable, even across continents"
Edited to add:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
Except for the first bullet point (and arguably the second), everything else is a directive to another federal agency - they have NO POWER over general-purpose AI developers (as long as they're not government contractors)
The first point: "Require that developers of the most powerful AI systems share their safety test results and other critical information with the U.S. government. In accordance with the Defense Production Act, the Order will require that companies developing any foundation model that poses a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety must notify the federal government when training the model, and must share the results of all red-team safety tests. These measures will ensure AI systems are safe, secure, and trustworthy before companies make them public."
The second point: "Develop standards, tools, and tests to help ensure that AI systems are safe, secure, and trustworthy. The National Institute of Standards and Technology will set the rigorous standards for extensive red-team testing to ensure safety before public release. The Department of Homeland Security will apply those standards to critical infrastructure sectors and establish the AI Safety and Security Board. The Departments of Energy and Homeland Security will also address AI systems’ threats to critical infrastructure, as well as chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks. Together, these are the most significant actions ever taken by any government to advance the field of AI safety."
Since the actual text of the executive order has not been released yet, I have no idea what even is meant by "safety tests" or "extensive red-team testing". But using them as a condition to prevent release of your AI model to the public would be blatantly unconstitutional as prior restraint is prohibited under the First Amendment. Prior restraint was confirmed by the Supreme Court to apply even when "national security" is involved in New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) - the Pentagon Papers case. The Pentagon Papers were actually relevant to "national security", unlike LLMs or diffusion models. More on prior restraint here: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/prior-restraint/
Basically, this EO is toothless - have a spine and everything will be all right :)
Chromium Edge and Chrome have pretty much identical UI/UX. If you switch between Google and Bing, you will immediately notice the difference.
>most people that have phones and not computers probably don’t realize or know how they can change the default.
"80.12% of iOS users, used Safari as their default browser as of 2020." Source: https://zipdo.co/statistics/apple-safari/
About 20% of users changing the default browser is a big deal, especially when all browsers are identical (WebKit) under the hood.
And that's simply because the delta between Google and the competition in search is greater than the delta between Microsoft and its competition in browsers
"Social media" is a super vague and amorphous term. Does it include platforms like TikTok and YouTube, which are closer to the "Television/movies" category? Even Instagram has largely pivoted to Reels and influencer content over pictures of your friends. The usage of "pictures/texts from your friends"-type social media is likely to have declined over the last five years.
>American teens are also less likely to say that there is a lot of competition for grades at their school, suggesting academic pressure has not ramped up in recent years
College admissions, which conventional wisdom advertises as the next step after high school and the only path to a successful career/life, has become vastly more unpredictable over the last ten years. The amount of work (extracurriculars, "volunteering", clubs) you're expected to do for your app to look good has also significantly increased, while the expected payoff remains the same or has decreased. (Even excluding this, zero-sum games over prestige are probably depressing on their own.)
If this is true, that is insanely embarrassing for a company that purports to be a sophisticated programmatic advertising platform.
Also, it's basically free if you own a Mac or an iPhone.
People haven't really noticed that building a general-purpose (humanoid) robot has become 1000x more feasible now even compared to 1.5 years ago.
Check out https://www.lerf.io/ for a taste of the future
Planet is in the earth observation business, not satellite internet
It has been possible to link to specific pieces of text for a while now. For example: https://maggieappleton.com/xanadu-patterns#:~:text=If%20we%2....
Not just regular MPs, it gets much, much worse:
Von der Leyen: https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1658022320827518977
The president of the European Parliament: https://twitter.com/timparrique/status/1658009279754915840
Palling around with Hickel and Vandana Shiva:
https://twitter.com/ERC_Research/status/1657835551901270023 https://twitter.com/ICTA_UAB/status/1655860218868252672 https://twitter.com/AndreasShrugged/status/16583961046254632...
Stable Diffusion pretty much killed DALL-E, cost only $600k to train, and can be run on iPhones.