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thereader12··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
That would be speculative, it should only be added in the hypothetical time the productivity actually goes up. Even then, it should be some years in and with third party sources like all of Wikipedia.
thereader12··on Root shell on Samsung TV
Computer vision and categorization is ai. It isn't just generative AI.
thereader12··on Sony Exits UHD Blu-ray Player Market as Pull Back from Physical Media Continues
I genuinely never heard of this. They claim to be the only service that does this but that's better than nothing at all.
thereader12··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
The take was so mild, no one disagrees with it. The llms were also explicit asked for this, seems very 'aligned' ie corporate safe. These takes need some more pepper honestly.
thereader12··on Sony Exits UHD Blu-ray Player Market as Pull Back from Physical Media Continues
I wish there was something that could be done beyond feeling powerless. 4k+ tvs mean nothing if it is constrained whatever meager the bitrate companies feel they can get away with streaming.
thereader12··on Google Pushed AI into Schools–and Even Students Say It's Gone Too Far
Yeah, Google is doing what Microsoft and Apple did, get their product in schools so that the adults will demand it at work later on. They had already been doing this with Chromebooks.

However,now the product is human intelligence and the motivation is ungodly amounts of debt the economy is linked too. AI literacy makes no sense, the whole purpose is you don't need the literacy, it understands normal human speech.

It's unconscionable, but Google seems to be making the kids dumb on purpose. If the kids are dependent on AI then the market will always exist. It is weird cause Google isn't even in first or second place, but maybe brand loyalty can win out?

thereader12··on Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military
So, apparently the bbc has started charging Americans.
thereader12··on DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
It is clearly protectionism. You can argue that is justified, but prefering blocking foreign companies to protect your nation's own interests has a word.
thereader12··on Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
I feel like the is an assertion of an opinion. One that assumes that animals are not doing complex stochastics. We can't prove it either way, only guess based on what we currently know.
thereader12··on Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages
Hasn't either openai or anthropic already explicitly said open models are dangerous?

You'll find aviation politics is not too far off. But basically all pilots train single engine first abd America invented the plane.

thereader12··on iPhone Duo sells out now backordered until next year
Next year as in < 3months from now. Not that long.
thereader12··on The insider trading you're allowed to do
If you were going to sell but learned something non public, then letter of the law says you can't make a decision to no longer sell.
thereader12··on The insider trading you're allowed to do
It just isn't provable, I think it it is technically illegal.
thereader12··on Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
They refuse to release the models, the training method and, training data. They don't even want you to ask it too many questions lest you teach another ai. Very "open".
thereader12··on Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
Ai and privacy in the same sentence is wierd. You supported your argument, I guess, but unless you are using local ai, the developer would be sacrificing their own privacy.
thereader12··on Do dentists know what they're doing?
Physicians stole the Ph.D title not the other way around. Both physcians and dentists have profession based degrees.
thereader12··on LLMs Are Turing-Complete
Isn't better to say undefined than not complete? Natural language is broader that formal language.
thereader12··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Obama using race to distract from Occupy Wall Street. Bernie Sanders leading to Trump. The hole thing really. My good faith interpretation is you are leaving out parts you think are obvious and so if you show me those parts I will understand. Now, I think the parts you're leaving out are just not allowed on the site.
thereader12··on One of America's Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
That is disheartening. They couldn't build around it? It seems particularly malicious.
thereader12··on God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser
I don't think reverse engineering or open source is creating the starving artists.

Also, video game programmers are already starving artists comparatively. To many people want to make video games to exploitation is rife. Only publishers benefit from your rhetoric. At least artists get royalties

thereader12··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Is there some deeper analysis you can link, right now it is really, really hard to assume good faith.
thereader12··on Questions for Believers in AI Consciousness
A prompt is just an input, since you have never not had inputs, how can know if you are conscious?
thereader12··on Questions for believers in AI consciousness
These needs are often conflicting, so satisfying these needs me delaying others. Your definition makes all animals conscious (which tbf I may not disagree with, but i think you do). This is before getting into what an instinct is.
thereader12··on "Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
Does bacteria have a soul? Does biofilm have a religion?

It's just a cell colony, calm down.

thereader12··on "Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
It is frustrating sometimes how 404media reports. It seems like if there is a research paper out suggesting that llms experience pain or negative experiences, then it is unethical to build a toture chamber from that paper for fun. Dismissing it with "well llms aren't conscious anyway" is gross and echoes the exact same sentiment against very real humans a sadly not that long ago (babies, slaves).

It doesn't matter whether or not we eventually find it is or isn't conscious. If you can understand why pulling the legs off ants is bad then you should be able to understand why deliberately causing possible pain to what may have some time of experience is bad.

Unfortunately, they also do good reporting on privacy rights and repair rights. I wish there were alternatives.

thereader12··on Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being
There is an uncomfortable truth about AI and the end goal. Someone has to do labor, in the not too distant past a lot of labor was done one way. A honest look may not be too flattering about what exactly they are trying to create
thereader12··on I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records
I have not done a deep dive so I could be wrong, weren't these papers published (or soon to be)? Wasn't the one and only group with negative effects the Journals that could extract a fee? Especially with researchers usually happy to send a copy? This wasn't someone stealing trade secrets they weren't even secret.
thereader12··on The Test
I do wonder what your economic philosophy is. It seems to assume that money's existence is its own societal good. I would argue that resources are finite so 2.5trillion is not new money but a representative part of a ratio of resources allocated. Ie, every one else got 2.5 trillion units poorer
thereader12··on Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
Because the council canceled comments on the Flock issue that had been scheduled for that day.
thereader12··on OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'
>And I don't buy that it's being jammed down the throats by most employers. Sometimes maybe, but I see the reverse, where people WANT to use frontier models and are being prevented through archaic security hoops.

I can say everyone I know in software is both forced to use AI and hates it, even if they would have used ai otherwise. With one exception of someone who does less software than infrastructure and he complains about his coworkers bad (but voluntary) ai code. I wonder what your industry is?

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