And how exactly would it do that? This isn't a bad sci-fi movie. I'm guessing anything dangerous is kept in a sealed container under lock and key, not in a fancy plot device that allows the AI to vent it.
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And if AI can somehow manage to achieve that then surely it could also cure cancer, or any of a thousand other dread diseases or conditions. If that's true then not using AI to cure those things would in itself be unethical.
An AI that can hack other computers can also be used to find security hole in systems so that they can be patched long before some evil hacker(tm) tries to exploit them.
I'm still waiting to see a real explanation of how AI will somehow cause genuine wide spread death and destruction. Even harder if that is somehow possible why another AI system couldn't help prevent it in the first place.
I think that OpenAI and Anthropic have over extended themselves. It's not that their products aren't good and won't bring in lots of money.
The bucket loads of cash coming in is still tiny compared to the hundreds billions of dollars invested. Then hardware keeps getting more expensive so trying to grow capacity is hard while open weight models like Qwen are excellent putting a limit on how much they can put prices up before consumers switch.
Regulatory capture to prevent or slow down competition is the only thing they have left without there being an existential crisis for them( rather than human kind).
Is there any TV on the market that flat out wont work if it can't see the internet?
Their Insider video interview things are sponsored by Anthropic. Supposedly "Insider is a product of The Economist and thus editorially independent" but it's hard not to raise an eyebrow.
I heard about it on the radio (local Johannesburg radio station) before I saw it on HN. The economist had a full article up about it before the end of the day, and in the evening Sky news had talking heads up chatting about what it all meant while clearly being clueless.
Someone spent a LOT of money to turn this into a PR exercise for both companies. We'll never hear the entire story about what happened but I'm sure there was a lot of handshaking going on behind the scenes.
Yes they didn't want the hospitals to get full. That's when the younger healthy people who would have recovered can't get the medical care they need to survive.
You had to have spent covid in a pretty sad friendless hole not to know friends or family who ended up in hospital during the peaks.
On the other hand if they don't I'm making popcorn because the lawsuits and political fallout if / when this goes wrong is going to be epic.
Some of the pessimists are absolutely perma-bears who hate any thing to do with Elon to the point of madness, but still doesn't change the fact that this IPO makes no financial sense no matter how reasonably you try to look at it.
I listened to all 3 hours of the Dwarkesh interview with Elon. I would really really love to see mass drivers on the moon, but all the facts were obviously made up on the spot. This wasn't just the usual Elon exaggerating. It was pure fantasy stuff. All the hard engineering questions were just being hand-waved away along with reasons of why the data centers couldn't be here on earth.
Combine that with the fact that Elon will retain complete control of SpaceX. Yeah no. I wouldn't be crazy enough to short the stock but I really don't want any of my money in it either.
If you listened to some of the more X/ Musk friendly new sources this was going to be a slam-dunk and Musk would win. Some of the more left leaning press had the slam-dunk going the other way
Meanwhile the jury took less than 2 hours to throw it out for being filed to late. But I guess that doesn't make news.
I presume this is going to go to appeal.
The truth is that very very few people run their own recursive nameserver. The entirely reasonable assumption for any authoritative nameserver, like .com, is that the query is being asked on behalf of someone else and knowing that a user of your nameserver asked for the ip of sexysheep.com doesn't give them a lot of useful info.
I'm think many ISPs actually sell a lot of data from their recursive nameservers, but I'm willing to bet that almost no-one bothers to sniff port 53 udp traffic going elsewhere.
My vote for the best privacy option is always going to be just run pi-hole with your own recursive nameservers.
I so wanted it to be true but all his claims, including this mass driver, had numbers that were so outrageous that it was obvious he was just making it up as he went along. All the hard engineering issues were just hand-waved away and all the trivial issues with doing things back down on earth instead were magically insurmountable. This is a modern "Selling swampland in Florida" scam.
I haven't been able to find any cases of genuine dns hijack attacks in the last few years. Would love to know if anyone else can?
Only about 40% of the crypto companies seem to use dnssec. Seems like a target rich environment.
I have a co-worker who is really good at herding agents. I've seen him do work in an afternoon what would take more than two weeks without AI, but some of his other work ends up being so bad the rest of us want to string him up by his thumbs.
Its impossible to tell from just looking before hand what the result will be.
It's also counter intuitive but it can dramatically keep your costs down as well. If costs are based on the time spent then the lower the time the lower the costs.
For version 1/MVP work, you absolutely shouldn’t bother with this. It’s a complete waste of resources when you should be focusing on growth or launching the product. Compared to doing it by hand, it’s slower, clumsier, and just another layer of complexity your team has to deal with.
On the other hand, for long-running, stable systems, it’s awesome! We know exactly who rolled out a change and when. From the commit messages, we know why the change happened—even years later. We also make a point of adding Jira (Hawk Tuah) ticket numbers so we can track the details more easily. And if something goes wrong, it’s simple to roll back to an older version.
This approach is perfect for large, long-term maintenance systems—but poison for a brand-new project.
It was also frustratingly predictable from the moment the US started trying to limit the sales of the chips. America has slowed the speed of Chinese AI development by a tiny number of years, if that, in return for losing total domination of the GPU market.
But the medical community was acting with the best knowledge they had at the time as imperfect as it was. Tell me how did taking the vaccine harm any child? It wasn't painful. Immediate side effects were minimal to non-existent. Myocarditis and Carditis incidence was something like 65/million. Even then most of those recovered without any treatment. Median hospital stay for those that needed it was 2 nights and most recovered without permanent issues.
I think the final death toll from the vaccine was estimated at around 1/million. Meanwhile at the height of the delta strain the death toll for anyone infected was well over 1/100 ( more than 10% for the over 60s).
The fallout doesn't make rational sense.
I.e they check from multiple network locations in case an attacker has messed with network routing in some way. This is reasonable and imposes no extra load on the domain needing the certificate all the extra work falls on the CA, and if Letsencrypt can get this right there is no major reason why "Joe's garage certs" can't do the same thing.
This is outrage porn.
The muscular changes that happen during puberty are permanent. No amount of testosterone suppression will change that. In how many sports do any trans-women end up on the podium vs their numbers in that sport?
The boundaries are really not that fuzzy at all.
I've got a 13 year old daughter with DS. We don't have 6 hours of screaming but she has definitely thrown her share of hissy fits. My personal favorite was driving into my son's snooty private boy's school while she was sitting in the back without a shirt on (She was 12 at the time).
Or the time she decided to sit down in the middle of a busy street while we were trying to cross it and we ended up dragging her across the road skinning her feet and almost getting hit by a truck.
Usually she is happy and has tons of personality but it really does make things harder at times.
I should probably add my that my usual comment when anyone asks is that having a kid with DS sucks but not as badly as a lot of other disabilities.
Obviously HN's moderation and flagging system is a long way from perfect, but in general it does work.
Feel squeamish about bodily fluids? Don't worry the kids will cure you. Nothing like trying to do a Matrix style bullet time dodge when you are changing a nappy and the cold air makes your son let loose with a stream of pee.
And then they look at you and giggle and the world is perfect. Wouldn't change it for the word, but enjoy life first then have the kids. Its not worse just very very different and you can't go back.
Can someone explain what Russia gets out of this? I would have thought if anything it would be more likely to harden attitudes towards them.