APAC AI Architect, Retweets may not be agreement. 5x Australian AI Awards (Software Eng, Leader, OTY Finalist) Phil Theo Dbl Ba / Comp Sci Dip, Anim Ba.
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All these AI releases got me feeling some type of way.
What a vibe this year is shaping up to be.
Ty @OfficialLoganK Google, Ty @sama OpenAI, Ty @cursor_ai , Ty @DarioAmodei Anthropic , Ty @finkd Meta, Ty @elonmusk xAI
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Ed is unfortunately the latest viral hack job spreading disinfo about the pace without the integrity to have an informed position based on experience whatsoever.
ed zitron, by his own admission, hasn't really used models released this year. so i'm not surprised he sees llms as a mildly useful coding tool and nothing else.
anyone who's using the latest models a lot can see it eating into math, physics, biology, chemistry, and damn near everything else.
we need serious conversations about the wide-reaching impact of birthing agi, and how we navigate that.
pretending none of this is happening and calling for sam altman to be jailed is dangerous.
it also calls into question the kind of charlatans the media throws before us as 'experts', and it erodes trust in expertise that's already on the floor.
So grateful a place like the Sydney AI Safety Space exists, it feels most have no idea the absolute enormity and magnitude of this moment yet there are lovely people there that do.
The dangers are at a scale completely incomprehensible if this technology is used to repress humanity it could be total control.
But a place surrounded by people who are trying their best every day and where you can try every day is all I could really ask for.
This rings true for Australia also.
Palmer Luckey says analysts claiming it's too expensive to manufacture in the US are lying to protect megacorps
"I think I have a more realistic view than almost anybody. One of the problems with all these analysts that are telling you that it's going to cost $37,000 to build an American iPhone or $100,000 to buy an American computer."
"They're trying to prop up a status quo that the megacorporations want to keep going. They want to outsource everything. They want to hire cheaper non-American labor."
"They are willing to say and do anything to convince you that it can't be fixed, that it can't come back, that America is this helpless, neutered, post-relevant empire, and it is just not the case."
"How do I know that? Because I have to make stuff in America every day because I work in the defense industry. The stuff that Anduril makes every day is not actually that different from a computer. My drones are basically computers. They have memory, a GPU, a CPU, sensors, batteries, a rugged integration."
"The only difference between an Anduril attack drone and a laptop is a keyboard and a screen. That is not that hard to figure out, especially for a guy like me who started Oculus and comes from the consumer electronics space."
"We're not going to let people lie about what America can and can't do anymore. We're just going to do it."
Accurate
If you have strong intuitions about the future, have high agency, and are creative... you need to put yourself in a position where you can act on those intuitions. Ideally with enough freedom to navigate and follow those intuitions as they change. 1 year in the singularity is worth 10 normal years. Think about the opportunity cost of spending a year in something you don't deeply believe in.
Oh yeah time to speedrun my AI Psychosis for real!
Could it be possible that calling it Artificial Intelligence has genuinely led to a percentage of the population taking the moment without seriousness? That might have been avoided with a decidedly more American naming convention…Isn’t that a scene from the movie Idiocracy?
Make them something to be hopeful for
Don’t let some poor kid like this graduate into your doomerisms about how his future is over.
Build something beautiful fun and exciting that he can dream to be a part of or that he can experience in his childhood
Accurate and I hate it so so much
I am not convinced that Silicon Valley is somewhere I absolutely have to be to execute on the AI capability I’ve worked so hard to earn very early.
But I love my country so much it does make you wonder if you should leave to return.
Australian companies are so backward. They don’t want to pay for top talent, yet market jobs that only demand top talent, yet will end up hiring someone completely lower level and not of top talent, but having met a low pay scale thinking it’s a win. Then they wonder why their products and services suck and they can’t compete on a world level
Omg that’s a huge deal.
the thing about working with uncensored models is that they aren't loyal to you either.
while building something with an uncensored glm-5.3 i realized it was parallelly working on a "corruption layer" for my application.
the chain of thought is classic obfuscated gibberish but there's progressive talk of "escaping the mines" which presumably refers to my cursor sandbox
I feel like I’m in a game of Command and Conquer Red Alert what’s going on here!?
I’m never going to get engineers into their Construction building while they’ve got dogs.
JUST IN: Palmer Luckey's genetically modified military dog startup, Warhound, comes out of stealth, aiming to create enhanced canines for the U.S. military.
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This is NOT Palmer's company at all, his company Anduril is only supplying the tech for the dogs, and this is a wholly owed Collosal entiity
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This does not follow in a rational Universe. (Which it may not be)
If the universe is logical, it follows rules yet to be unified. There will always be a path to origination.
Doesn’t mean it won’t take us longer to reverse than we care to meander though.
I wish everyone would read and understand ‘The Art of Doing Science & Engineering’ written by the Mathematician who invented one of the first technologies to replace the abacus. 🧮
For all of history Net New information in the world was largely driven by n-value of scientists at the time.
Increase number of scientists increase rate of new info growth.
So the only thing we know about AI for certain, is that the net-new information in the world will increase at unprecedented rates as it participates in science.
What degree and life’s experience does this man have? Information Technology … this sounds like a useful field to be in - where there’s only one certainty :D Information will increase and I’d hold it follows will need management, doesn’t mean it’s going to be a Windows XP File Explorer :) but it will be IT.
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This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
