This is a really good take except when you get the part about oligarchs "opened the floodgates to such inauthentic activity, conspiracy-mongering, and hate speech by rolling back moderation". That is subtly wrong. The oligarchs if they are pushing the extreme content are doing so precisely so that they can to convince NPCs that moderation is necessary. They desperately want to reassert neurolinguistic control over the population through content "moderation" which is a euphemism for "censorship". Wake up NPCs.. you're being manipulated into accepting a very horrible future living in a digital cage. You will not get the socialist paradise you think you are voting for. The establishment will simply thank you for handing them the absolute power to control the future and you'll get the WEF/UN agenda 2030 "own nothing and be happy" future instead. Then you'll get stoned, lonely, depressed and ask for MAID and they'll gladly help you with that. The Left is no longer the resistance. They recognized that "demographics is destiny" so they ditched the GOP, took over the DNC and opened up immigration. Sadly, the resistance is on the Right now and too many of us didn't get the memo.

Thanks for giving us the free/open software movement and for all the beautiful flame wars with the VIM folks.

The establishment is desperately trying to use Bezos/Amazon to build an alternative to SpaceX / X / Elon who they can't control. It will be interesting to see if they succeed but the odds are against them.

It seems the French could use this technology too. But I think there's a reason they talk about it for use at the border. It's probably not so effective when the target is masked and helmeted. Fortunately economic migrants aren't kitted out for street protest. This might make for some extra sweaty Antifa folks though. Until they figure out those ice pack vests that is.

Maybe these fools should go live in a country that will be subject to intimidation by AI military technology of China and see how secure they feel then.

Except there IS NO GENDER PAY GAP. It's always been a fallacy because job types/preferences and leaving work to have children were not factored into studies of that. Once they're factored in, the so-called pay-gap disappears. Time to get current on things instead of perpetuating misinformation. There is no gender pay gap and there never was.

If only it were really that pathetically bad, but it's definitely not.

Total propaganda story to make you think facial recognition is no big deal and doesn't work. Only 500k scans in 6-months? That should tell you right there this is BS.

He was a great-looking mayor but not a great mayor. There's no metric by which Newsom did a good job with San Francisco. In fact, he was a disaster by probably every metric you could think of. But he's easy on the eyes and he can talk in circles until you forget what the question was, so the sheeple vote for him. But even if the sheeple didn't, it wouldn't really matter because politics in CA are completely dominated by the unions, trial lawyers and real estate developers. The people really have no say in anything and it shows.

Stories like this are suppressed until the blob wants to put pressure on someone that's going a bit rogue like Palatir's CEO Alex Karp. It's their way of saying "Remember who's the boss Alex. You need to stay in your lane and stay on OUR message or we could turn the public really hard against you or worse".

They already can track everything through backdoors in the telecom and Big Tech companies... sheesh.

This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of [AI] promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward.

So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But ... this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward — and so will [AI]. ... If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of [AI] will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for [AI].

Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of [AI]. We mean to be a part of it — we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look [at AI] ... and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see [AI as] a weapon of mass destruction, but [as an] instrument of knowledge and understanding.

Yet the vows of this nation can only be fulfilled if we in this nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. In short, our leadership in science and in industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all men, and to become the world’s leading [AI] nation.

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For [AI] science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of [AI] any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that [AI] can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.

Shocking. The research (and the LLM technology) shows that knowledge is actually necessary for sophisticated thought. We are failing this generation by pretending that we can teach kids how to think without them actually having any base of knowledge in their brains first. If you don't know anything you can't think about things. You simply don't have the ideas, examples, material to work with in order to come up with opinions and objections and nuances. Teachers giving students excerpts and summaries and single-chapters to read are missing the mark.

compassionate teachers think they are helping students by kindly lowering reading standards and expectations to not stress their students. every time standards are lowered, student performance is also lowered. it's critical that teachers and school administrators wake up and realize that expectations should always be a lever slightly ahead of where the students are and allows them to reach for something and achieve a goal. it's in accomplishing goals that children gain self-value and self-awareness of their ability to do more than they initially thought they could. this leads to even more gains and success over time in a virtuous circle.

The fourth estate we have been finding out has been compromised for decades by the intelligence services to push establishment narratives and to censor stories that interfere with that. There used to be this great academic project called Project Censored that would publish an annual book you could buy in Borders, B&N, etc. and read about all the important stories the public should have been presented with but weren't that year. Stories you would only hear about on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! show and similar. That was back when the establishment was visibly more aligned with the GOP though. Once the establishment became more aligned with the DNC circa Obama and MAGA has mostly taken over the GOP since Trump, the fourth estate hasn't caught up to that and are foolishly defending the evil power centers they used to (rightly) oppose when G W Bush was President. It seems they do this because the establishment via the DNC is now pushing the social agenda the journalists agree with (LGBTQ and immigrant rights, social justice, disparate impact theory, critical race theory, etc.) so they look the other way or actively run cover for them when the DNC or other left wing actors are up to no good.

Yes, DJT should not be publicly influencing his DoJ, but there is a real and serious issue here when journalists are free to intentionally mislead the public because it helps their preferred political party. We all know that is not journalism, it's anti-democratic and dystopian -- basically establishment propaganda media when that's the norm and it is the norm now. In an ideal world there would be something like the American Bar Association that would sanction journalists and even bar them from the profession after repeated incidents of knowingly misleading the public. But of course that could be compromised to as we have seen with the ABA and the AMA, so it would never work. It really comes down to the university system having become politicized and abandoning their mission of truth seeking. Today they think their mission is to produce more right-thinking apparatchiks. Meanwhile the establishment continues to hijack the federal government even when the people elect a President specifically to un-hijack it.

It's going to be fascinating to see what happens this November.

Notice the Guardian's bias here?:

"authorities are increasingly worried that AI might exacerbate existing social problems including loneliness, unemployment and -- in the eyes of Beijing -- singledom."

They can't help implying how wrong it is of the authoritarians in Beijing to be worried about "singledom". Because we wouldn't want any Guardian reader to think "singledom" was less than "coupledom". How wretched of those CCP authorities to try to save their society from disappearing through lack of relationships, marriages and parenthood. Ick!