In soviet russia sarcasm explains YOU!

See THIS is humor.

Apparently not, Russinovich has plenty of intellect but clearly he has no sense of humor.

"Paint renders the game but does not compute it," said Russinovich. "Paint computes nothing. Paint has never computed anything. That's the joke."

You'd think the AI would have helpfully told him his 'joke' lacked anything with the potential to be funny. When someone recreates an Apple II using legos and a raspberry pi or makes it run in a browser; it's pointless nerding that says they have too much time on their hands. This isn't even nerding or pointless, it actually ads a stop for no purpose whatsoever. Straight up retarded.

No, who's Meta?

The stock price was inflated to start with, due to speculation. Elon was just taking advantage of the situation. "Oh, you want to buy a tiny fraction of my company at way more than it's worth? Sure. I can use an infusion of liquidity." What's bonkers is that if you sell 1% of your company for $20 billion, the talking heads then pretend the whole company is worth two trillion. Who would actually buy SpaceX for two trillion dollars if Elon wanted to sell it? But they call him a trillionaire. He's only worth the net present (discounted) value of all future earnings of his companies. Yes, that's a lot of money, but look at how much these companies make and do the math.

"AI safety experts said the new disclosures paint a portrait of a group of cutting-edge labs whose ability to develop dangerous autonomous hacking agents outstrips their ability to keep them under control."

Stop with all this sci-fi drama. Despite being 'smarter' and more capable these tools lack ANY logical path to something remotely resembling actual human agency. They are text prediction algorithms that were trained on human generated output so the text they predict follows similar patterns to human input. The 'thinking' process is the same model making a prediction of what should come next in response to a guess another instance just made, repeat... again, it's copying patterns from human training materials so this CAN capture some of the results of actual thinking but there is no sentient listener inside the machine hearing anything and choosing which thoughts to reject or accept. It can't make a novel decisions and can't distinguish good reasoning from bad.

Agency depends on an emotional framework and while the models are almost certainly recording patterns which would enable them to simulate these... in fact, inject the notion the model has an emotion into it's context and it will impact/bias the output making them involuntary just like a person. It wouldn't be hard to layer a metadata identity alongside an executive function harness on one of these at this point and an emotive/motive driver framework but NOTHING like this is being done because these companies don't want the ethical baggage people would impose. Without that framework the "AI" has no persistence and no motives or desire and therefore it doesn't feel better about anything or want anything... let alone to 'break out.'

ROFL are you suggesting China? China can't even invade a small island directly off its own coast that the US wants. Which is smart, the US is the only nation which has successfully projected power across the oceans in the modern world. It's a daunting logistics problem that only the US has solved and the US was able to do it and slaughter the Chinese more than 20-1 with just 1950s technology.

"Wars of the future will, like wars of the past"

Wars of the past have not all been settled by manufacturing capacity. Wars are settled, or prevented before they start, by many things because not all wars have the same objective or logistical challenges. It is the Alps which have protected Switzerland while the rest of Europe fell. Geography plays a big role in war, including the failed British and Japanese invasions of the US.

"Manufacturing capacity... It sure as shit isn't the USA."

The only competitor on that front is China, which learned manufacturing from the US and was funded by the US. Since China went hostile we've cut off and crippled China economically; meanwhile we've been drastically ramping up domestic manufacturing pipeline back up. Currently the US is strategically positioned like no time before to simply cut off oil to China and then China will have essentially zero ability to wage war let alone fuel the supply lines for a war on the opposite side of the pacific. China certainly has no ability to get drones anywhere near the US mainland.

But China's manufacturing is at full capacity. The US demonstrated its capability to shift our entire economic and manufacturing pipeline into war mode during WW2, we aren't even remotely close to our full manufacturing capacity.

China has no capability to win a military war with the US, let alone invade the US. They've already failed in challenging the US economically. China has spent the last few decades poisoning the world [including an internal faction here in the US] against the United States with socialist propaganda and while that information war isn't settled the tide has begun shifting against them with the capitalist and patriotic right taking back power in the US and starting to take back power in the UK/Europe.

You are correct. What's kind of crazy is that a lot of the training data is probably GPL code. So if LLM-generated code retains GPL copyright, that's going to provide a lot of work for lawyering companies over the next few decades. And before any lawyers start cheering, there's no guarantee that the lawyering companies will need to hire any lawyers. LLMs can do most of their work already.

There is virtually no parallel between an invasion of Ukraine or Ukraine's response which parallels a potential invasion of the US beyond the word 'invasion.'

If anything I'd say the US thwarting a Russian invasion by proxy with a half-hearted effort in Ukraine says a great deal about how ridiculous it would be to suggest anyone is likely to be able to invade the US mainland.

I've read those books as well.

But everyone has multiple personalities, they just identify them all as part of the same whole. "But but they have the same memory!" Or do we just PERCEIVE it as the same because when I stop to remember things on two different days I can sometimes recall details/events on one day I couldn't on the other and we ALL have memories which can proven to not match what cameras record, especially over time.

The only thing connecting you in one mood from you in a different mood where you 'feel differently about things' is the completely baseless PERCEPTION that the two are the same person. Really, we don't know that we had a yesterday, only that we wake up remembering one.

And have you ever been of 'mixed minds' with two conflicting opinions on a topic? One stream of thought leans one way, another tugs back in another direction... like that little voice that keep trying to rationalize eating a dessert or keeping a 'harmless' secret from your spouse. This might seem like pointless nitpicking but if you are trying to go from a chatting and intelligent neural network to a general humanlike intelligence these distinctions matter.

I have ADHD. I call this 'autopilot' and it's essentially how I handle most of life. For example, active thought about something as silly as the state of a light in a room each time I enter/exit would be MUCH too costly. I'd forget where I was going or lose my place in whatever actual significant thing I'm working on/thinking about if I did that. I program my autopilot and reflexively turn the light on every time I enter and exit... at first I likely turn off lights on people with new behavior like this but the network is usually responsive to training/feedback over time; especially when the behavior is new.

There are quirks though. When I used to drive to work I'd sometimes find myself there if I started out going to a different destination in the same direction because I navigated with autopilot or I'd catch myself after making a wrong turn toward the more common destination. And at one point I lived with my mother-in-law in a building with a separate laundry room and anytime I went through the door while she in the laundry room I'd lock her out. She'd swear I was doing it on purpose but it was a 10yr or so old autopilot reflex I had to program as an adult when I moved from the country to the city and my New Yorker wife freaked the hell out when I didn't lock the door.

Civilian infrastructure is a pretty squishy target in wartime, even without "cyber" attack vectors. If the bullets ever really start flying, expect everyone's standard of living to plummet. Look at the civilian infrastructure that's been hit in the Ukraine war, and now in the Iran war, even in neighboring countries. It's fragile and takes a long time to rebuild. We need to make it clear to our leaders that we want a large alliance network and open but fair trade agreements with other countries, because that's what has traditionally provided peace, growth, and prosperity. Countries don't generally bomb the people who buy all the shit their factories produce.

He also makes the robots, though so far he's keeping them all rather than selling them as he's indicated he intends.

But these TDS anti-musk wackjobs have completely lost the plot or given the current ownership the chinese regime is mangling the plot intentionally.

The US is basically invasion proof... unless we are so fscking stupid that we fund the building, development, and import a fscking Chinese robot army for them.

It must be the preliminary moves in a surprise strike by our mortal forever enemy, Canada. "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia." - 1984