What do you expect? Should he jog without a GPS like a savage?

If it's not on Strava it didn't happen!

Frankly, this all looks a bit like grandstanding on the part of the US government. Or maybe just general cluelessness.

The US government is more than capable, and has plenty of funding, to just set up a team that grabs an open source model like .. hmm.. say DeepSeek R2. And gets it to do what they want with a few agents. They have the money, the data centers (or they can rent those), and the technical skill to do all they want.

Not sure why the haven't.

I'm not a big believer in the "dangers of AI".. except of course the only real danger of AI: military use of AI.

That's the big elephant in the room. The governments are going full speed to create autonomous robots to kill people. Nobody seems worried about that obvious danger. And the present government doesn't believe in disarmament treaties.

US won't be successful by promoting War around the world.

And the US military is more than capable of making their own models. In fact they can just base it on open source ones like DeepSeek. Then build their own agents.

Anthropic should have told the Department of Genocide to take a hike.

They buckled to the evil administration's pressure.

A better option would have been to tell the Department of War to go make their own model. And be free of their evil.

This is literally the worst use of AI: AI for weapons manufacturing.

I guess the money is just too juicy.

If AI translation is good enough then readers should use that and leave the submissions in their original form.
International collaboration should be encouraged, not curtailed.

you can't effectively monitor if something was generated by AI.

also, I'm sure Chinese education is very exam heavy.. so less succeptible to AI cheating. But the sad part is then there are less project based evaluations.

Sadly what it means is going backwards from more project based evaluations to more exam based evaluations.

This isn't great. But I don't know how else to solve the problem.

I've always said that one has to earn the right to automation.

Once you understand the material well, then by all means automate. But don't make the tools a crutch in life.

It's ok to retain classified documents as long as you keep it in a bathroom.

That was his mistake, forgetting to keep it in the bathroom.

Culture isn't defined by the monoculture tv that the US blasted for decades excluding a large part of the country's cultural richness.

Culture is what you get when you go meet your neighbor when you share with other people in person.
But the incredible diversity of Youtube will help you cook a Chicken Tikka Masala or the greatest Texan Taco. It's far richer culturally than some narrative that some exec in recesses of a hollywood studio can come up with.

And don't get me started with the propaganda machine they are still calling "news" that spews it's narratives over the airwaves. The sooner we get rid of those "network channels" and the better. And Youtube journalists could probably do a better job. Though I don't delve in that world because I'm tired of all the lame political talk and propaganda. Certainly Youtube isn't immune to it, but I can choose to keep it away (or include it if I want). I control my feed.

Youtube makes all sorts of content available for people and producers small or large can monetize.

The variety and depth of "shows" is awesome. For example, there are channels where they explain Machine Learning papers in great detail. Something so niche would never survive on the traditional networks.

This is also great for music that has long been held back by music companies that have famously exploited artists.

Finally, I can set my Youtube to show me exactly exactly what I want. For example, I have a strict no politics policy on my Youtube. It's so refreshing to not have that noise and only stuff I'm interested in.

Well in the Tech world they are investing $2-3 TRILLION dollars in new data centers. The result is that budgets are being slashed to allow for this. Meaning a lot of people's projects are getting cancelled. Until the data center craze ends, jobs will be tight. But we hope that this will change once the bubble bursts.

It has nothing to do with ridiculously high tuition, or with unmarketable degrees, that leave students high in debt and low in jobs.

Here's a simple solution: charge students for the cost of instruction and no more. Then you'll find it should cost around 20-35K for the WHOLE degree.

I think colleges would do well to pivot back to prioritizing educating undergrads rather than other things. As a parent, I'd pay for that.

I disagree..it's a form of sexual harassment.

Allowing people to "sue" is not enough. Criminal charges are warranted for this behavior.

Also Aid is a good geopolitical strategy. It costs a LOT less than bombs and the war machine but it gets countries on your side. It also stops countries from siding with your enemies.

Surely China and Russia will fill the gap and gain the political clout now.