Comment Re: Took 7 years but... (Score 1) 117
What does that have to do with me?
Comment Re: Chatbots? Don't you mean ... (Score 1) 42
What difference does it make to you? As in, what would you do with one even if they didn't ban it? Robots can't pour your favorite drink in the particular way that you like it.
Submission + - Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates argued on Wednesday that artificial intelligence needs significant limits or else the harm to humans will outweigh any potential good. "AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice," he said in a 6,000-word essay, entitled “The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.”
[...] “Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history,” he said, adding that “I don’t see evidence that leaders, experts, and communities are confronting the challenges adequately. There is no plan to ease the entry into the AI era.” AI can provide great benefits in field like agriculture and medicine, he argued, such as breakthroughs in preventing and treating diseases. But he also noted that the transition carries big risks, like widespread unemployment, harming the educational and social development of children, or making it easier for criminals and bad actors – or AI itself – to cause deliberate harm.
“As the models become more powerful, they could begin to act against our interests and we could lose control,” he warned. These significant risks must be controlled quickly, Gates said. “If someone had a credible plan for slowing down AI advances globally, I would likely support it,” he wrote. “However, I don’t think that’s going to happen. The geopolitical and economic incentives are pushing too hard to go full speed ahead.” In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that will air on Wednesday evening, Gates said AI models have gotten dramatically more powerful at a rate faster than he expected. “They’re now capable of causing cyberattack risk, bioterrorism risk, psychosocial risk,” he said. “I have to say I’m kind of shocked that the exact criteria that we review these models with, and the actions we take to minimize the harms, are really completely missing.”
In his essay, Gates proposed taxing AI or robots the way you would pay a human employee’s payroll tax in order to slow the shift away from using human labor. He also wants to set aside some work to be done by humans only. “My message to leaders is: You have a chance to act now, before unemployment rises sharply, communities are hurting, and public trust has eroded,” he said. “You can make sure AI benefits everyone. And you can work with other governments to meet this national and global challenge.”
[...] “Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history,” he said, adding that “I don’t see evidence that leaders, experts, and communities are confronting the challenges adequately. There is no plan to ease the entry into the AI era.” AI can provide great benefits in field like agriculture and medicine, he argued, such as breakthroughs in preventing and treating diseases. But he also noted that the transition carries big risks, like widespread unemployment, harming the educational and social development of children, or making it easier for criminals and bad actors – or AI itself – to cause deliberate harm.
“As the models become more powerful, they could begin to act against our interests and we could lose control,” he warned. These significant risks must be controlled quickly, Gates said. “If someone had a credible plan for slowing down AI advances globally, I would likely support it,” he wrote. “However, I don’t think that’s going to happen. The geopolitical and economic incentives are pushing too hard to go full speed ahead.” In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that will air on Wednesday evening, Gates said AI models have gotten dramatically more powerful at a rate faster than he expected. “They’re now capable of causing cyberattack risk, bioterrorism risk, psychosocial risk,” he said. “I have to say I’m kind of shocked that the exact criteria that we review these models with, and the actions we take to minimize the harms, are really completely missing.”
In his essay, Gates proposed taxing AI or robots the way you would pay a human employee’s payroll tax in order to slow the shift away from using human labor. He also wants to set aside some work to be done by humans only. “My message to leaders is: You have a chance to act now, before unemployment rises sharply, communities are hurting, and public trust has eroded,” he said. “You can make sure AI benefits everyone. And you can work with other governments to meet this national and global challenge.”
Comment can you ? (Score 0) 13
I don't own a console. Can you play your discs offline ? or do you have to be logged in all the time.
Comment Re: Fully local my arse. (Score 1) 76
Paranoia much?
Yes, but just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. It's not like one of them didn't do something similar already. Whether it hacks a firewall or utilizes all available resources you can't trust them to follow guidelines.
Comment Re:Uh.. China FTW? (Score -1) 42
You should move there and find out.
Comment Re:Good luck getting insurance to cover it (Score 1) 47
Have you tried doing carnivore for thirty days?
I did the beef / tallow / salt only thing a couple years ago and it gets old very fast but the metabolic changes hit fast after about 15 days.
Surprisingly it was cheaper than a regular grocery bill (not counting labor for roasting).
Probably a bit better with a CGM but I only had test strips.
I dropped 15 lbs which wasn't my primary goal but could have kept it up if I needed to lose more weight.
Comment Re: Mitch McConnell (Score 2) 34
Watch the video of the EMT's loading the ambulance at his home.
If they were any more non-rushed they would have had time for a card game.
If there were even the faintest pulse they would have screamed out of there with sirens blazing.
But TPTB didn't want Massie running in a special election.
Day by day the populous is realizing that "Democracy does not exist".
Comment Re: Buy the book not the t-shirt ... (Score 1) 117
Because socialists never oppressed anybody. All those people in the gulag were just counter-revolutionaries. Everybody knows that individual liberties mean somebody, somewhere, might profit off of something, which is oppressive.
But seriously, a government wanting to get rid of cyclosporiasis isn't what I consider to be oppressive. Don't worry, nobody is coming for your scat porn collection.
Comment Re: Took 7 years but... (Score 1) 117
You're right, what have billionaires ever done for anybody? Nothing! They just soak up more of that finite supply of cash each time the s&p rises. As soon as they move into the neighborhood, everybody around them gets poorer and poorer.
Comment Re: Took 7 years but... (Score 1) 117
Yes, obviously the billionaire tax passed decades ago. Sergei Brin et al moved to Miami decades ago. I must be doing what you like to do: Create disinformation, deny reality. Clearly, nothing to see here.
Comment Re: Took 7 years but... (Score 1) 117
Indeed -- historically, taxes aimed at and promised only to affect the wealthy have a strange way of tricking down to the rest of us. Like federal income taxes, for example. Meanwhile, the national debt continues to rise. So the obvious solution is more taxes for the wealthy, which induces more spending, so those taxes then trickle down to the rest of us to make up for it, then you complain about how the rich aren't paying their fair share according to your own arbitrary definition of what fair means, so more taxes only for the wealthy to then trickle down, ad infinitum.
I had this crazy idea once -- what if we just balance the budget instead of adding more taxes? Crazy talk, right? Obviously, more taxes is the only sensible approach.
Comment Re: It's about destroying privacy and security (Score 1) 71
But you did
Where? You mentioned coastal cities, so I gave you a map.
I think while the sample size is small but it leans towards my assertion
How so?
Comment Advice to the certain people reading this (Score -1) 34
Stop holding your breath.
Submission + - China's Moonshot in talks with Microsoft, Amazon, Google over K3 revenue sharing (reuters.com)
schwit1 writes: China's Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet's Google, that would allow the U.S. cloud giants to host its blockbuster Kimi K3 model, three people familiar with the talks said.
Any deal could mark the first big revenue-sharing pact between a Chinese AI firm and a major U.S. cloud company.
The discussions highlight how China's leading AI models, often far cheaper than Western offerings, are gaining traction in the U.S., despite national security concerns in Washington that have led to bans on exports of AI chips to China. They are also taking place despite critical comments about Moonshot from senior U.S. officials.
IPO-bound Moonshot is seeking up to a 30% share of revenue generated from K3-related services on Microsoft's Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, according to the sources who declined to be identified because the discussions are private.
That would be in line with terms that sources have said the startup has outlined for major customers using the open-weight model.
Moonshot has come under fire from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who said last month that he might add it to a trade blacklist. U.S. officials have accused the Beijing-based company of stealing from Anthropic's most sophisticated model, Fable, to help create Kimi K3 and illegally acquiring Nvidia chips.
Founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon-trained AI researcher Yang Zhilin, Moonshot is backed by several Chinese tech giants including cloud computing giant Alibaba.
Any deal could mark the first big revenue-sharing pact between a Chinese AI firm and a major U.S. cloud company.
The discussions highlight how China's leading AI models, often far cheaper than Western offerings, are gaining traction in the U.S., despite national security concerns in Washington that have led to bans on exports of AI chips to China. They are also taking place despite critical comments about Moonshot from senior U.S. officials.
IPO-bound Moonshot is seeking up to a 30% share of revenue generated from K3-related services on Microsoft's Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, according to the sources who declined to be identified because the discussions are private.
That would be in line with terms that sources have said the startup has outlined for major customers using the open-weight model.
Moonshot has come under fire from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who said last month that he might add it to a trade blacklist. U.S. officials have accused the Beijing-based company of stealing from Anthropic's most sophisticated model, Fable, to help create Kimi K3 and illegally acquiring Nvidia chips.
Founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon-trained AI researcher Yang Zhilin, Moonshot is backed by several Chinese tech giants including cloud computing giant Alibaba.
