That's not what Anthropic promised their shareholders. If that was all Claude is supposed to be, nobody would be giving them that much money in the first place.

The problem with all these arguments is that they beg the question: They assume that AI is some kind of sentient technology with personal and unpredictable goals that are inevitably in opposition to humanity's goals. They then argue that humanity is controllable because it cannot fight a super intelligent sentient technology with personal and unpredictable goals. It's a classic logical fallacy.

There can be no co-operation without some measure of trust. It's a collective balancing act which is not purely technical. AI mimicry enables new kinds of social engineering attacks that have never been possible before. The onus should not be purely on the software architecture, IMHO.

Agreed! I used to RUN a 4KB BASIC interpreter in my T-16 back home!

I'm nit optomistic that thonking thos fast is a giid odea!

Woz, despite his technical chops, had no influence after the Apple ][ days, so while he was initially influential, he hasn't been influential over most of Apple's history.

My Emacs only needs 8Mb! (but it's constantly swapping)

Those issues are not new. What *is* new is that AI mimicry has lowered the bar for attacks substantially.

Just creepy crawlies looking for their 5 minutes in the spotlight while the audience is ooh-ing and aah-ing the destruction and opening their wallets to buy trinkets.

Them's there alternative facts meester! I gots plenty! It's see-ent-tuffic, y'see!

I've been wondering for many years before the first traffic camera appeared, why the toll-roads aren't enforcing the speed limits automatically. The time you enter and exit the highway is recorded down to a second. The distance between these two points is known — your average speed could be computed on the spot even with the early 90-ies technology...

The polite police officers would be standing right behind the toll-booths issuing tickets without the drama of hiding in the bushes, then chasing you at highway speeds...

And, yeah, you could lower it by stopping at a rest area — but it'd still be a tremendous disincentive to speed.

I was and continue to hope, that such universal enforcement, affecting all voters, would cause the limits to go up to reasonable figures — or even be abolished completely...

I've run into these people, they're the worst

When have you last checked your compiler's output?

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There's no overarching EU law. There are EU regulations and directives, and the member states (who each have their own state laws) must fold those directives into their own state laws in a way that fits. The regulations tend to be very targeted.

So in a manner of speaking, it's all state laws, no "federal" law, just local interpretations of "federal" directives and some common standards. And contracts in each state have to follow state law. If someone objects that a "federal" directive is broken, then they can sue the state in an EU court, etc.

A big difference with America is that a legal precedent in one state doesn't mean anything in another state. It often doesn't mean anything in the same state either. The judges interpret the legal texts, but do not create new case law. You can't refer back to some judge such-and-such who said something was ok in a similar lawsuit, so therefore it must be ok going forward in all future lawsuits.