Holy fuck! How brain-dead do you have to be to believe a piece of software is any more dangerous than any other tool if misapplied properly.

Half or more of the Fortune 500 hlis sitting on enough chemical, biological, and industrial capacity to kill a good chunk of the world all kinds of dead (and has been for the better part of a century or more) and it isn't a problem. Because people fundamentally don't want to die, and they especially do not want to die poor.

Why the ai fearmongering? Misplaced religious zeal certainly has some explanatory power. Even if it comes from self-styled science-types.

So tldr: pix or it didn't happen. How exactly are the robots gonna kill all humans? By what mechanism? Specifically. How exactly will "recursive self improvement" work if the humans ain't around to plug in more graphics cards and memory?

All nonsense. Oh wait it's election time isn't it?

Ah well, disregard then.

The system needs to be dismantled. The cameras need to be removed or destroyed. Hand-slaps for everyone won't work. Cops don't get fired or disciplined like normal employees and anyone who says different isn't paying attention.

hostiles.

Unless you want to up your probability of being treated as hostile.

This is an apolitical statement, as true about filming and following an employee of $disfavored_business as it is about wearing a yankees cap to a redsox game.

I wasn't there and all that, but if it were me with the camera, I might have taken the extra half a minute to go up to the guy and introduce myself before filming.

Let's reach back to what I hope is a basic level of bullshit detection we might have exercised at some point in the last few decades when a clueless politico said something clueless about the internets.

How does one enforce, or even measure, such a "slowdown" exactly?

The thing he's talking about policing is writing code and running it. Perhaps a little more capital intensive than writing a crypto suite without fully abiding by ITAR or reverse engineering DVD CSS, but not in any way that matters.

You're not talking about keeping a lid on the exact geometry of nuclear bomb design that's the difference between a boom and a fizzle, or the secret sauce of enriching uranium or machining plutonium. You're talking about typing code into a computer.

Presumably he knows this, or should know it. Perhaps he's yet another silicon valley figurehead, but either way: it's a joke and/or a lie whether he believes it himself. So who exactly is the mark who's the intended audience of this PR?

Politicians? Media? Investors? Idunno. None of those make much sense to me.

Maybe it's just a healthy dose of stupid.

Hey man. Don't knock it. I get paid the big bux for predicting the next token in my line of work. My predictive powers are better than yours, I'll wager.

How else does one explain a bot EMOTING to itself this way?

With blackjack, and hookers?

Mine's just connected to a PC. Doesn't get much smarter than that.

LLMs and LLMs as an industry are two very different things. In the future, you can use a free model, and it'll be good enough for almost everything you'd want from an LLM.

Because most people who type in "Fiji hotel" aren't actually looking for a hotel named "Fiji hotel". Most want a list of hotels with prices for comparison.

She was a robot the *whole* *time* !1!eleven

So it must be wrong.

Repent, sinners! The end is nigh!

Funny how when you start making awards about politics or religion, nobody cares but the political and religious. We need neither types in Fantasy or Sci Fi, but it doesn't matter. AI has already ruined reading new authors anyway, even more than the political folks could have. I'll never read all the Sci Fi and fantasy already written anyway, even the good stuff, and I'm a voracious reader. I just keep mining the older stuff. It's fun to go to old used bookstores anyway.

After boomers are gone, demographically, the millennials will be in charge.

They've ruined everything else from bar soap to paper napkins to casual dining chains, and now they'll ruin politics.

Obviously the new headline will be "Gen Alpha is ruining full length movies".

That is also my assumption, as well. Doesn't matter much once it starts, but yes, absolutely true.

100% agree. Stop funding the war effort and the war effort will suffer.

Naw. Some require computing numerical integrals to do them justice.