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!

Once again the public are treated as nothing more than sheep/cows to be profited from. No surprise there.

Don't want your skin cancer to return? Take cheap, safe horse paste and use it topically in the affected areas. Oh wait, they don't make any money on that..!!

BTW- mRNA 'vaccines' aren't really vaccines. They're inherently dangerous and anyone who knows about silicon chip manufacturing knows that there is ZERO chance these things are not getting massively CONTAMINATED with all kinds of random DNA from the air during manufacturing. The fact they're not made in a chip-level clean room tells you everything you need to know on that.

Don't be fooled. Stop being a guinea pig for mRNA experiments. They're going to increase your risk of dozens of OTHER cancers, but that's good for industry... they can then sell you expensive chemo and other therapies to treat you and GDP goes up! Hurray!

We could never have imagined a situation in which the so called independent media have been so utterly compromised by the oligarch establishment and educated elites of a single political party. The media no longer does ANY investigative journalism or EVER runs ANYTHING that is even slightly damaging to the establishment machine or progressive fantasy narratives. It's literally 98% establishment or politically correct narrative drivel now. Anyone who defends that is off the deep end self-deluding and in full on denial of reality. There are probably more brave anti-establishment journalists in the 2nd and 3rd world now than all of the 1st world combined!!!

It's a generational problem. A lot of GenX latch-key kids thought they needed to do the opposite of what their parents did and it turns out that the lack of attention the Boomers paid to their GenX kids gave them self-reliance and a great sense of their own personal limitations because there was nobody there to rescue them if they went too far with something. So GenX learned how to avoid pissing off the volatile violent kids and how to have fun climbing and running and biking and skating and skateboarding and surfing and diving and every other incredibly dangerous thing you can think of because they had to pay attention or they could die. They grew up and realized "omg my parents let go out into the world alone and with dangerous people and things everywhere and I really can hardly believe I didn't get killed or kidnapped or worse!". So their next thought was "I better do things better than they did and 'protect' my kids from all of the dangers of childhood and affirm them in everything and convince them they're perfect little creatures and a gift to the world". Well, we see how that turned out...

This is so insane. I have a child going to college next month and so I know how incredibly hard it is to get into UMich. If they need to do this for incoming freshman, what does that tell us? It means they're still admitting a huge percentage of under-qualified students to diversify the student body. How can this still be happening? It's been abundantly clear for at least a decade that doing to much affirmative action for students harms more than helps them. No student should be invited in to a university where they are going to struggle and have a mental/emotional breakdown because they can't hack it. They could have gone somewhere else where they could have thrived, and someone else actually qualified to be there could have filled that seat. This is such an insane drag on society I honestly don't know how much more of this it can take before the system collapses. Wake up and grow up people of academia. Reality doesn't care about your feelings. You're going to ruin the excellent reputation of UMich while you also ruin a lot of kids lives.

This is complete BS because Waymo is so inferior to Tesla FSD that they're entire company is about to be worthless unless they can convince legislators to require specific sensor types like lidar (which they use and Tesla doesn't). Complete and utter trash. Tesla FSD is already 7x safer than a human driver and 9x safer on highways. Tesla has already won this race and they were 100% right that only cameras are needed. They're trying to use regulators to protect themselves by shutting out camera-only solutions like Tesla FSD because they simply can't compete with it. People that are impressed with Waymo are people who have never experienced Tesla FSD. Waymo is an algorithmic code solution for a problem that's not suited to algorithmic solutions and it shows. It really requires a primarily AI-based solution.

As consumers we must demand that Tesla FSD is allowed to launch Robotaxi at the same time or before the other players !!! It is the THE BEST and by far.

Disable the wifi on your smart TV and get a Roku. Never trust the TV brand to do things properly. I don't trust Roku completely but you can expect them will keep their OS updated and their app ecosystem cleaner than Samsung or LG or TCL etc.. Plus you easily take it with you when you travel, or upgrade the hardware when necessary without needing to upgrade the TV. You can also neuter the Roku's ability to listen in on you by using your older Roku remote that doesn't have a mic on your newer Roku device.

Given how cancers are able to hide themselves from the immune system, I guess it's not that big a surprise that they could survive in another individual.

The L3Harris Stingray product came out 25 years ago..! How is this anything new?

Unfortunately our fascist elites who hijacked our system well over 100 years ago have decided to co-opt the leftist movement and use it to implement a Chinese-style digital control system on the West and what's really scary is that they've successfully painted the _only_ opposition force (MAGA) as the fascists in the minds of even educated people on Slashdot. We could be doomed if people don't wake up soon.

You're absolutely right that it's about creating barriers to competition and cementing their dominance, but this has nothing to do with AI being a 'rich man's game' which is just Marxist non-sense. AI will get democratized and be running on everything in pretty short order. Go read some humanprogress.org and stop being a pawn for the power elite who are happy to use the leftist revolution to can take permanent digital control. Do some reading and you'll discover that the real revolution happened in 1776 and got hijacked in 1913. The counter-hijack is happening right now.