mrdevlar

Alignment research was always, at best, security theatre.

I'm just sad that this whole thing is destroying tech's reputation. Every time I see an engineer give into this marketing nonsense it makes me fear for the future of our field.

I get that people are worried about becoming irrelevant in the era of AI, but resorting to dishonesty to stay afloat just a little longer has a detrimental effect on the entire industry. Worst part, is it's not even convincing marketing nonsense, it's "science fiction".

Hey guys I found one, this guy thinks Machine Jesus is going to save him.

I'm trying to figure out if my advice to you should be to do more drugs or less. I am uncertain, perhaps I'll ask an AI.

This is proof that America has forgot it's own history.

America was founded by men who hated intellectual property, who stole and smuggled the plans and expertise for textile machinery out of the United Kingdom. A gross intellectual property violation. Why? Because they were being exploited by that system. The UK was using the American colonies for raw material and keeping the machinery in the UK for finished goods.

That's the rub, intellectual property is only valuable if you're winning, if you're the exploiter. China never gave a fuck because they, much like the American forefathers, saw a system of exploitation and went "no, thanks".

AI is the culmination of all human knowledge, the idea that anyone could own that is obscene. American AI companies that are trying to horde this are getting exactly what they deserve by being undercut by China on this.

A lot more people are working on it than I expected there to be.

It's the one time where the European Union's inability to advertise what they're doing is paying off in their favor. Then again, good, the operation of government isn't meant to be done through a tweet. We should resist the corruption of government to idiotic soundbites on platforms owned by American billionaires.

Yes, I'm aware of the rest of it, I just didn't feel it particularly relevant to the discussion.

Yes, I'm with you. I'm grateful that most of the news I hear about this is relatively positive. I'm actually kind of in awe of how fast it's all moving. For all the talk about slow Europeans, that single ICC action seems to have launched a ton of initiatives.

This already happened. The US government cut off a judge at the international criminal court from her Office365 account because she was pressing a war crimes case against Benjamin Netanyahu.

It's the reason why in the last year you've seen multiple European governments very quickly build an escape hatch against US tech.

We all expect that you'll use our dependency on US services as a weapon, you've already done so, so we're phasing you out. It'll take decades to repair the lost trust in US digital services among the governments of Europe.

Honestly, as a European, I am okay with this.

I want the US tech community to continue thinking of us as some sort of technological backwater. Ridiculing and deriding us, so they never see as any place where they are welcome. Since given the last ten years, they pretty much aren't. There's basically little to nothing that US tech services have to offer Europe.

I came here to find someone saying this.

I swear we are heading toward McKenna's Peak Novelty in this timeline.

I mainly use AI for learning things these days. The biggest bottleneck is always providing the machine with your context in sufficient detail that it can understand how to help you. When learning a topic it isn't always clear cut on how to do that, as you're likely missing much of the vocabulary necessary to get the AI to give you the answer you want.

AI is perfectly capable of teaching you quantum mechanics if you understand music theory. However, unless you have a full understanding of music theory, you'll need to explain to the machine what you know, and that takes trial and error that most students won't bother with.

Because there aren't any actual good guys in this story. There is one group that is taking short term gains, and another group that feels rejecting this will lead to long term gains. Neither one of them gives any shits about the use of their technology in to kill people. They just are interested in their companies turning a profit.

Both of these companies have heavy PR teams that they use to convince you that they do, in fact, care about these issues. But that is PR and generally to be considered bullshit. They care about nothing other than their bottom lines.

This has been a wonderous PR move by Anthropic. It gets to make money off the US war machine while somehow being able to portray themselves as the "good guys" in the story leading to that whole #cancelOpenAI trend. If you're dumb enough to believe that Anthropic is really the "good guy" in this story, I have some meme coin to sell you.

Yeah, this is a public relations effort. Corporations, especially ones that have spent an obscene amount of money on AI companies aren't going to change their direction. They have to justify that spending to their shareholders.

Windows 10 is my last Microsoft Windows operating system. Between the fact that I had to turn of TPM in the bios so that I wouldn't wake up one day turn on my computer and see Windows 11. The massive bugs that prevent things like power off. The insane push for AI in everything (notepad? really?).

I know a scam when I see one, and Windows 11 is a scam.

This is why I give cash to delivery drivers.

No I will not tip in app, that is obviously a scam.

American has not had functional anti-trust laws for the better part of the last 40 years. The current climate is just a peak.

Whenever I read anything like this, I am reminded that everyone should see Adam Curtis' "The Century of Self" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoMi95tfgP4) which is about how Sigmund Freud's nephew created the cancerous style of marketing that is ubiquitous in our society.

It's a tactic, agree to the deal, the US ignores us. Allow the deal to get destroyed in parliament and the courts and it has no effect. The deal was a means by which to get enough time to figure out the correct response. We've been doing this kind of thing for decades.

This was all an EU tactic, we do it a lot. Agree to the deal, Trump shuts up and ignores us, destroy the deal in the courts, no real effect of the deal.

This is silly.

Regulation exists to help balance out the power disparity between consumers and corporations that sell AI. The EU wrote a good AI law, it's mainly focused on access to goods and services and the impact that AI can have in those domains. Among other things, it almost entirely bans surveillance pricing. Makes companies liable if an AIs discriminate on their behalf. Also restricts the use of facial recognition.

This is it's role, to equalize the power disparity by prohibiting companies that do business within the EU from engaging in these predatory practices.

They recognise that the larger bubble is in the datacenters.

Most of the hardware we are using was designed for computer graphics not AI. Now that China isn't buying Nvidia any longer and actively trying to get their own companies to produce hardware, what happens to all these datacenters when a company produces a device that has 80% of the performance of the current Nvidia hardware but 20% of its power consumption?

Large entities aside, I would use this to mark my own generated content. Would be even more helpful if you could get the LLM to recognise it which would allow you to prevent ouroboros situations.

Also, no one is reading your resume anymore and big corps cannot be trusted with any rule as half of them think the next-word-machine is going to create God.

This is exactly why I didn't buy an Amazon product as an eink reader.

I want control over the things I own, I don't want them to exist locked up in a walled system where corporations can yank my ownership of something I paid for whenever they feel so inclined.

The people who were warning us about DRM back in the 90s exactly expected this future.

No, I don't think so.

I think most of the work done in AI here is focused on current applications of AI not on the development of new AI.

But they don't want to do that.

They want to use AI in their hiring process. They want to be able to offload their work and biases to the machine. They just don't want other people to do it.

There's a reason that the EU AI legislation made AI that is used to hire people one of the focal points for action.

Which is the exact goal of the current wave of Tech oligarchy also.

Glad to hear that people are finally realizing that Godot is an excellent app development framework.

Like... probably... like not.

It's a Washington Post article, owned by who? Who has what kind of relationship with labour?

This is why we need stronger consumer watchdog groups that can combat this kind of behavior by the corpos.

Neat, thanks for this, I enjoyed this viewpoint as it might help systems like this actually be able to build something reasonable.