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This dude is pure evil and anyone who tolerates his presence is a fascist π
Why does it feel like all the worst people are working together to fuck over the world?
Bc you're paying attention and not sticking your head in the sand.
It feels like it bc they definitely are. I'm in Louisiana and just woke up to find out news my corrupt Governor is being accused of scheming to install a new senator so that he can then have them resign and take both Senate and governor seats for himself.
One of several examples of how Landry and Trump seem to be scheming together to be as corrupt as possible
Even for Louisiana that's a whole other level of corruption..not even the first Louisiana governor to do it, but the last one was in the 30s.
The last governor that was this blatant about corruption also had a personal vendetta against my city and tried to take it under siege using the national guard
Guess what else the current governor and his doge inspired task force are scheming
Who cares what Peter Thiel thinks about anything. He's a leading cause of the plutocracy that is now happening in the United States, and that's one of his better points.
Even if he was knowledgeable on the subject he has a biased take anyway.
I'm not saying I believe its important, the president believes it's important bc Thiel has been funding him and making policy decisions since his first term, most people (myself included) just didn't notice it until the second one.
The first time, he tried to promote AI deregulation while insisting we would retain American values that helped us be better than China's surveillance state, but then Trump lost power and Thiel lost 4 years of progress at the global AI table because of those values (democracy and the constitution). Now that he's gotten his seat back he's not going to risk ever letting it go. IF he ever intended to try to maintain or respect those values before, he certainly doesn't now.
That is why the truth behind Trump/JD Vance/Adrian Vermeule's argument for a constitutional interpretation of strong executive authority needs to be made loud and clear.
I cannot comprehend how anyone who is not already a billionaire could be dumb enough to support this, but let's just be honest about what you're supporting.
Teal boy has a bias alright, it's the lense of pure fucking evil and greed.
The only care I have for his opinion is to know it to actively do the opposite at every occasion in an effort to make the world a better place.
For a brief brief moment I was elated when I parsed the title as 'Palantir says it has given up on AI'. Then I read the article and was left dejected.
I mean, every apologist and defender of capitalist apocalyptic hellscapes will have that view, sadly. So long as it makes them an extra buck it's good for them, consequences to society or environment be damned.
As an European who does advocate and see value in the use of AI, but not at any cost, I'll take his opinion as a compliment. As they say, "I want AI to do my dishes while I create art, not for me to do the dishes while the AI produces insta-art".
And eventually if AI gets capitalistically out of hand and leads to many people in service-based economies to poverty and unhappiness we're sure to see a revolution to restore balance, as many times in history when a few elites made things unbearable for the rest of the population. AI is here to serve humanity, that's where the value is, not to serve only a select few.
I agree, and as I keep trying to point out to people in the U.S., I'm pretty sure the reason Trump is not even giving GOP loyalists emergency disaster money when something happens in their state, is because there's nothing left.
He literally put all of America's eggs in one basket because he (and Peter Thiel) thought/think if they just deregulate everything and keep throwing money at it as fast as possible they will win, and other countries will be coming to us to buy our AI.
Tbf they are definitely planning to use it for evil, not to make humanity better, but I still don't see why anybody would buy AI tech from the U.S.
I am wondering what happened in Brussels though, that made them say they're considering some deregulation.
Trump was also very pissy at all of the EU but apparently Brussels in particular really hurt his ego
Trump was also very pissy at all of the EU but apparently Brussels in particular really hurt his ego
No what happened is that all of his backers want him to go after the EU because the EU is constantly suing American megacorps for breaking of local laws, and they don't like that.
Trump is just doing their bidding, he isn't actually angry at the EU, except because he has the vocabulary of a rather dim 8-year-old, everything is "nasty" and "evil" and "bad".
Germany. Italy. A bunch of EU states. Some African states. Who am I kidding? Capitalism rules the world, they're just extremely emboldened now. Globally, we need to wake up and show them they've overplayed their hand -- before we can't.
AI is here to serve humanity, thatβs where the value is, not to serve only a select few.
Mostly right now it is here to torture humanity with low quality slop. It literally can't do the things people claim it is capable of doing, no matter for whose benefit. It is just that some people benefit even if the output quality is significantly lower as long as they have enough people convinced that it is a viable replacement.
The AI field is more than just LLM and generative AI. Like models that can detect cancer in scans are not LLMs or generative AI.
Yeah, but Palantir is based on using AI in Saudi Arabia to execute people for being gay. Proof? The computer said so.
And in any other country it boils down to variations of that principle. Justify oppression, discrimination, torture and murder by the "impartial" decision of the computer algorithm fine tuned to make exactly that decision.
Mainly the purpose of those is to diffuse responsibility.
As with everything it's grey rather than black and white. It can do the things people claim it can do but only up to a point. All of the people claiming it can run a business on its own selling you a lie, but that's not to say that it can't do some tasks within a business.
For example it can code pretty effectively, as long as the application is relatively small in total file size, anything large it tends to get lost in.
it can code pretty effectively
As long as you are okay with 95% of your code not doing what you intend it to do while using libraries that don't exist sure. Otherwise it really can't. I am a programmer myself and have quite frankly wasted many more hours than I should have giving it the benefit of the doubt on that one and it just produces utter horseshit as code.
When I tried it it was all right, and it certainly didn't try and use APIs that don't exist (I suspect it's very language dependant), however I also wouldn't say it was particularly spectacular.
This was using gdscript to make a basic character controller. But and entire game, fat chance.
This was using gdscript to make a basic character controller.
Sure, if you make something that likely has literally dozens of copies of the exact thing in the training data it can probably do well.
The guys views make no sense. He's basically a socialist who struck it rich and is now a conservative trying to use leftist ideas to attack the left. He still calls himself a socialist.
Surprise - people saying things you like are not your friends any more than people saying things you hate.
Surprise - people saying things you hate are not your enemies any more than people saying things you like.
Surprise - the words "socialist" and "capitalist" have no useful meaning at all. Specific solutions devised and offered as part of something "socialist" or "capitalist" are all over the place of the choice of instruments, with nothing uniting them along those lines other than how cover art aesthetics unite books.
And surprise - people saying ugly and dumb things might have a better idea of what they are doing than people who seem very fine. No connection at all.
I think Alex Karp and his colleagues are quite close to having a bunch of Starlinks and AI-powered combat drone networks covering all the globe. Maybe with some commercial stuff working similarly. The future might be theirs. Yep, that's a very raw and stupid application of computing power and it's dystopian, but what gets deployed IRL matters more than elegance.
Also this is in the context of USA giving Israel a kick in the butt, so maybe it's not such bad news that they are getting involved with Arab monarchies and not, say, with Turkey or Russia.
I personally have no problem with AI (all your problems with AI can be solved by overthrowing capitalism), but I don't want to hear anything from these guys.
There are huge issues with AI, namely its very negative effect on the environment as well as being trained on misinformation.
Oh, the environment thing is true, fair enough.
Aren't even Libs pushing backdoor bills and other gross surveillance bills? Hear rich people's words, watch their actions. Including politicians.The less evidence supporting their words, the more evidence they're not worthy of their positions.
They're not pushing enough deregulation and enough backdoor bills, that's the problem.
Here in the US there really aren't any actual libs, and yes, the apparatus of our government is very much behind deregulation of AI, though I imagine some states will push back. The House of Representatives is currently trying to ban state-level regulation of AI for ten years by sneaking amendments into spending bills.
This douche is just angry because the EU is working on regulating AI, and that's a huge swath of the business worldwide. I'm grateful that the EU is actually moving regulation forward.
this dude should really choke on it.
That guy should get a haircut and get a proper job.
there was this microblogmeme where the joke was like "u need the ai to do your work because you're too shit? do u need it to do your art for you because you can't? u need it to fuck your wife for u also? fucking loser" and i think it'd fit here but couldn't find it :( add: also why u gotta sully Tolkien's name by naming your Military Industrial Complex AI-powered Snitching Machine Apparatus after his word? fuck you for that especially, please die to bullet wounds rn
right on, thanks!
you're welcome, now please fuck my wife already
despite what my lightning fast intellect, general tendency to hallucinate, and inability to work properly because of capitalism may lead you to believe, i am not chatgpt
I wish we would have given up on it ... but that shit is still creeping in everywhere.
Sound advice would be to adopt the opposite position of anything that sociopath says.
this is one THiels spy tech companies.
death is not good enough for ai people
We should just wall off Florida (all my world improvement plans involve walling off Florida), stick them in there and then have the AI administer their lives, and see how long they last.
Given up? I am not sure we even tried and with good reason, it's a dumb technology based entirely on hype.
What an ignorant statement. Unlike other hypes, AI is far from dumb and has a lot of useful applications that could better the world.
What's dumb is the hyped up solutions everyone is talking about.
Ok yeah AI is a broad collection of algorithms, but most people when hear AI will think the current iteration of llm models. That's how I used it.
Yes, so was I
What do you mean? Everything I own is connected to the blockchain and I have NFTs hanging on all of my walls.
