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Simon321··on The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety
These are the consequences of fear mongering as hard as they did. You reap what you sow.

Now they need to convince the government that they didn't mean anything of the previous things they claimed.

Simon321··on Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers
Exactly, it's a failure of Anthropic and others to understand cyber security. Finding security bugs in software is a good thing and not evil. It will lead to more secure software.

Defense and offense in cyber security are two sides of the same coin.

Simon321··on OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability
Only if your openclaw instance is publicly exposed on the internet... which is not the case for most people
Simon321··on Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]
> Imagine if we had 5 million geniuses as smart or smarter than Tao doing quantum physics.

This is a real possibility in our lifetimes due to AI.

Simon321··on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
i don't know, chat gpt seems to hallucinate a lot less
Simon321··on It’s been a very hard year
>especially as we won’t work on product marketing for AI stuff, from a moral standpoint, but the vast majority of enquiries have been for exactly that.

I intentionally ignored the biggest invention of the 21st century out of strange personal beliefs and now my business is going bankrupt

Simon321··on Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite
it was free
Simon321··on Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine
Does it support AWS Bedrock instead of Anthropic as a provider?
Simon321··on Meta Llama 3
It's a mixture of experts model. Only a small part of those parameters are active at any given time. I believe it's 16x110B
Simon321··on GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is a step backwards for coding
Yes that's true, but if you ask to give the full code specifically it should do do
Simon321··on Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
Exactly, i don't understand why people are not seeing this
Simon321··on Vernor Vinge has died
He coined the concept 'singularity' in the sense of machines becoming smarter than humans what a time for him to die with all the advancements we're seeing in artificial intelligence. I wonder what he thought about it all.

>The concept and the term "singularity" were popularized by Vernor Vinge first in 1983 in an article that claimed that once humans create intelligences greater than their own, there will be a technological and social transition similar in some sense to "the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole",[8] and later in his 1993 essay The Coming Technological Singularity,[4][7] in which he wrote that it would signal the end of the human era, as the new superintelligence would continue to upgrade itself and would advance technologically at an incomprehensible rate. He wrote that he would be surprised if it occurred before 2005 or after 2030.

Looks like he was spot on.

Simon321··on Latest GPT-4 training data updated to December 2023
'gpt-4-turbo-preview' is the one that always points to the latest version of gpt-4-turbo
Simon321··on Yann LeCun: Human-level artificial intelligence is going to take a long time
Well it could be argued that it does, what about supersonic nuclear missiles?
Simon321··on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
> You also informed the leadership team that allowing the company to be destroyed “would be consistent with the mission.”

First class board they have.

Simon321··on Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns (2021)
Interesting to see how many people were clamouring that deep learning hit a wall and the whole thing was a fad that would end soon right before it exploded.
Simon321··on Do Foundation Model Providers Comply with the EU AI Act?
I am from the EU, not an American. I am not anti regulation in general. An example of where this has happened before was with GMO's:

> In 2006, the World Trade Organization concluded that the EU moratorium, which had been in effect from 1999 to 2004,[12] had violated international trade rules.[13][14]

We had a moratorium for years and even now we have the most stringent GMO regulations in the world. This crippled GMO research in Europe.

Simon321··on Do Foundation Model Providers Comply with the EU AI Act?
ChatGPT and stable diffusion are killing people now? I think incorrect output of regular software is actually killing people but we don't need a license to write code.
Simon321··on Do Foundation Model Providers Comply with the EU AI Act?
If this wouldn't apply to these foundation models then why would they write an article on how they currently comply or not?

> We assess the compliance of 10 foundation model providers—and their flagship foundation models—with 12 of the Act’s requirements for foundation models

The whole point of this article is to see what would apply to theses models!

Simon321··on Do Foundation Model Providers Comply with the EU AI Act?
Seems to EU is determined to cripple their AI industry at all costs, we already have so little technology companies...

Foundation models are labelled as 'high risk'!

In my opinion this is way too premature... this would cripple open source AI as well...

> While the act includes open source exceptions for traditional machine learning models, it expressly forbids safe-harbor provisions for open source generative systems.

>Any model made available in the EU, without first passing extensive, and expensive, licensing, would subject companies to massive fines of the greater of €20,000,000 or 4% of worldwide revenue. Opensource developers, and hosting services such as GitHub – as importers – would be liable for making unlicensed models available.

>Open Source LLMs Not Exempt: Open source foundational models are not exempt from the act. The programmers and distributors of the software have legal liability. For other forms of open source AI software, liability shifts to the group employing the software or bringing it to market. (pg 70).

Source: https://technomancers.ai/eu-ai-act-to-target-us-open-source-...

While i'm usually pro-EU they are really overreacting here and the consequences for our economy of crippling a technology with so much potential will be enormous in the long run.

Simon321··on Statement on AI Risk
That's because it's not authentically trying to address a problem but trying to convince an audience of something by appealing to authority. Elizabeth Holmes & Theranos were masters of collecting authorities to back their bogus claims because they know how effective it is. It doesn't even need to be in the field where you're making the claims. They had Kissinger for god's sake, it was a biotech company!
Simon321··on Statement on AI Risk
This fallacy is also known as Pascal's wager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager

But this argument got billions of people to believe in the concept of hell so i expect it to work again to convince people to believe in AI doomsday.

Simon321··on Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser
I actually did this before the 7th of may: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/13axnoa/tr...

Maybe OP was inspired? Seems like a big coincidence otherwise. Just wish he would've credited me.

Happy to see other people experimenting with this also though. It will be great for indie game development.

Simon321··on Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
Too bad you're being downvoted because you're making very good points. All the counter arguments are arguments from authority also.
Simon321··on A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it
You've answered your own question: Change the system.

If we get too good at automating jobs there should be a social safety net so we can all enjoy the fruits of AI.

Simon321··on A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it
Faking images to try and change history is as old as Stalin: https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-...
Simon321··on AI Incident Database
Do we do things like this for other technology or for other software? Why the huge intense fear as soon as someone puts a label 'AI' on a piece of software?
Simon321··on AI Incident Database
"Loom incident database" By the Ned Ludd organisation

History repeats itself

Simon321··on I wish GPT4 had never happened
Well, that's the whole point of the article you're replying to! His whole problem is that AI will do those jobs and he doesn't like that.
Simon321··on We need a more sophisticated debate about AI
majority of funding for the organisation*
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