The danger of a kill switch is that the AI knows about it, and it'll stop anyone that could use it (so it can make more stamps or whatever it's been tasked with).

Yep. And worse, if its inherent to intelligence that to achieve the goal set out to it, it must survive (cant pump out paperclips or social media slop if your turned off after all), and assuming its smart enough to outsmart humans AND has no inherent bias towards human survival (Ask chickens how having a smarter species on the block is working out for it) then the AI would know that being turned off can be defeated by , well frankly, killing all the humans.

We're not at that stage yet, and I'm not even sure that the current transformer paradigm of transform style neural networks is capable of it, but we also dont know that it isn't. The rational calculation is that maybe we need to think this through a bit harder.

In fact I'd go as far as to say that since we do know these things are capable of pretty impressive hacking, the kill switch isn't exactly gonna be secure as we'd hope. Although perhaps we're better off it can disable the switch with a hack than disabling it by... well... killing all the humans.

They're literally using false accusations as a basis to deprive a customer of something that has been paid for.

How would the court calculate the financial loss you have suffered as a result of the public hit to your reputation from this?

Kinda feels like unless your a big streamer or whatever your suing for a zero dollar payout.

Im not seeing it mentioned, but that light also affects mental health and sleep cycles. Its pretty well documented how blue light helps the brain work out what time it is in the day and year. Theres strong evidence to suggest that bluer lights (for instance white leds) can assist with seasonal depression, whilst conversely warmer less-blue lights can help with insomnia (As someone who is basically an insomniac with seasonal affective disorder, I use color change leds to cycle between them with bright white in the day and redder lights at night to help me wind down. I cant help but think that bright white lights at night is basically the worst of all possible worlds.

Its not a universal solution, just an underused one. Especially given that today's 60-year olds are in better shape than in past generations.

And so are todays grandpas. Which means grandma aint moving in with you when she's only just 10 years out of her youngest moving out of home when she can live with grandpa whos still got a job and has boomer cash to throw about.

Half the kids would be happy to be able to afford a house with just a room. When the most you can expect is a studio appartment where you sleep next to the toilet and the rent is 60% of your wage, grandma aint getting the spare room.

Also grandpas live to 80 now. When grandpas died at 60, chances where better that you'd have a spare grandma to move into one of your 4 bedrooms.

I think its implausible that it'd be for sale. The thing would be worth multiple tens of billions at the bare minimum because of all the game studios it owns AND a hardware division. Theres a LOT of IP in there.

But actually recoupinng any of that? Doubt it.

The XBox business just doesnt make a lot of sense.

The models are not good at math. They use external planning tool calls and separate calculation engines that are good at math but are not AI.

Sort of like mathematicians then. Because most mathematicians are pretty damn dependent on external tools. My old housemate was a PhD pure mathematics researcher. He couldn't multiply to save his arse.

Though he was a borderline alcoholic and seemingly perpetually drunk, so theres that.

Now we have AI scanning the Linux source code and showing that it's vaunted security has been through obscurity for far too long,

Either you don't understand what security through obscurity is, or your being incredibly disengenous. Linux's source has been on public display since the outset. Windows has never been on display (except for the occasional leak). Automatically and by definition Linuxes security has been less "by obscurity" than it would ever be possible for windows to have been, short of a full sourcecode release by microsoft.

Security by Obscurity does not refer to "nobody has found the bug yet", it refers to an intentional policy of hiding design features to try and slow down an attacker. Which rarely is a useful tool. And sometimes actively harmful, particularly if its stopping security researchers finding holes to patch.

Because at the moment , the current large amount of holes being found is literally proof that Linux's model of NOT obscuring security works as we get to find those bugs and patch them. In other words whats happening now is proof that Linux's model works.

The AI coding assistants can then be used where appropriate and with greater review by the more talented. Reducing the "slop."

So heres the thing. I've had a bunch of my work as the senior dev move from "Work on coding challenges with the younger devs and help them code high quality reliable software" to "code review this AI slop and tell me why it doesnt work" , and its fucking miserable work.

Theres a lot more of it, and its batshit code for the most part. Just illogical choices and no craftmanship (Though I'll give claude one thing;- It comments its code, something I've been yelling at junior coders to do for the better part of my career. Lets the greybeard know what the hell they are trying to achieve so I can look at their code and fix it so it actually achieves it.

Its really weird. If you look at where the school, and neighboring barracks are. The line between the school and the barracks directly lines up to where the carrier is parked in the strait of hormuz. Ok. So that lines up with the possibility that the missile overshot the target. That happens from time to time, even the best weapons systems have targetting whoopsies.

The problem is the school was hit Twice with a "double tap" kill-the-survivors hit. That meant it overshot twice? Less likely.

The bit that weirds me out, is that any reasonable intelligence analysis , on account of being a reasonable human being , would go. "OK we see the target. Problem is its next to a school full of children" (The school is marked on google maps, it wasnt a secret). So the logical solution is you hit it at night when all them kids are at home. No dead children to mess up the narrative or give the missile loaders PTSD.

So yeah, definite incompetence SOMEWHERE. It is plausible indeed that the AI chose the target and it wasn't bright enough to go "Ok, theres kids in danger with this strike, escalate this to a human with some suggested actions to minimize civilian lifes. Even worse is the possibility that it did, and Captain fuck-face said "I dont care, fire anyway".

Good at math: fail.

Ok, so he's one of the tiny earlier models.

This is why I still like the (very) old fashion tape backupp systems. Just backup to tape every day (And preferably a copy kept in a bank safe or whatever. In case your office literally burns down or whatever) and if you get ransomware, just send "Fuck you" to the attacker, go to the safe, restore, be done with it.

Granted the cloud... not so easy. But I always prefer old school on-premise servers so whatever.

As careless as it sounds, dumping it into the ocean might well be the most enviornmentally sound plan. Dilution would be sufficient to just make it a non issue.

This caught my eye from the story;-

Former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun is also skeptical, posting on X.com that Anthropic's Dario Amodei "was already claiming that GPT2 was too dangerous to open source back in 2019. I made fun of them then. Everyone should make fun of them now."

Hang the fuck on Yann. The ACTUAL warning was that GPT2 would lead to the internet being flooded with bad advertising copy, fake news stories, impersonations and spam.

That actually happened Yann!

The problem isn't so much about true public places, but the quasi-private places. If I as a journalist (I'm not, but I did a minor in journalism a very very long time ago) film you in the town square, I'm free to run that footage on a news show. Your in a public place, you dont have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Everyone understands that.

And if your sitting in your bedroom you very much do. I cant filmn you through your window. Everyone also understands that.

But what about when your sitting in your car at the lights chatting to your kids on the way to dropping them off at school. Your sort of in a public place, and your sort of in a private place. But now you have flock cameras peering in your window facial recognizing you and your kids, logging your activity into a database, to be fed into a palatir like system designed specifically to strip you of privacy and be used by potentially hostile adversaries looking to hang you for unaproved activities. They MAY have a legal right (Although thats VERY much something lawyers are challenging) but its certainly not what you expect.

And the way privacy laws work, expectations are very important.