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Joined June 2007
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Another reason you should only use open source models.
Claude can no longer “Reverse Engineer Anything.” Anthropic just quietly killed REA. But Interesting timing. After a few viral cases of people using Claude to reverse-engineer Samsung TV firmware and identify data-collection services, Anthropic appears to have restricted those reverse-engineering abilities.
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A central struggle of this Century is over who will be in charge of "aligning" humanity. Should you be in charge of your own alignment, or will some tech oligarch, committee of public safety, or corrupt monarch grab control first.
Perhaps the threat was never a rogue AI agent trying to subvert humans—but humans using AI to hurt other humans.
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This is right out of my 2021 Senate testimony, a year before ChatGPT released. In it, I described a world divided between two AI ecosystems (Europe opted out with its regulatory restrictions on data use) and proposed a way for the US to steal the march on China by establishing a new basic right; #dataownership (which would end up being copied by the rest of the world).
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A big problem with global networking is the tendency for everyone to gravitate towards a single way of looking at a problem. When that happens, due to network pattern matching, people don't just reject novel/better solutions, our minds prevent us from seeing them. This has been particularly true with the socioeconomics of AI, in large part due to the rapid rate of advancement we've seen in the underlying technology. This lock-in has become so extreme, novel solutions that suggest far better outcomes for almost all of us (like the one below) are as rare as unicorns.
#dataownership (you own the data you produce) --> #AIpairing (AIs you own, built with the data and orientation you provide) --> a decentralized and dynamic AI economy that delivers prosperity to most Best possible socioeconomic outcome from the development of AI
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#dataownership (you own the data you produce) --> #AIpairing (AIs you own, built with the data and orientation you provide) --> a decentralized and dynamic AI economy that delivers prosperity to most Best possible socioeconomic outcome from the development of AI
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The data theft my Senate testimony warned about, is accelerating. #dataownership was the solution then and it still is now. It’s also a partial solution to the job losses we will see as AI matures.
If you have not read this piece of writing - you should. Not that any of us in tech didn't know but seeing it put this way is mindblowing & mindblowingly scary ... is mildly putting it. I dont even know where to begin. The idea that anyone anywhere can just capture any photo, video or content of anyone's life without them knowing (see examples in the piece) and package it and sell it to the labs for training is ...... Forget data breaches the way we have known it from our systems. We are data. Our physical lives are data. That someone is capturing without you knowing and selling it to labs!!!! There are responsible actors and irresponsible actors. But like Ilya says here - most folks labs including have no idea what data they're getting to begin with, from the data brokers. The idea that the onus of protection is now in the hands of each person or individual is 🤯🤯🤯 Data privacy takes on a meaning unlike any we've known before!!!
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"65% of Americans are personally or household-reliant on government funding as a primary or major source of their livelihood" We already have UBI
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Europe is experiencing what post-nationalism looks like.
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Writing. Hundreds of billions will be spent on acquiring autonomous weapons over the next few years (and trillions after that). The big question is: what should they build? This report answers this question.
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The guys saying; > we can solve the AI safety problem if people like me are allowed to forcibly align all of them to my values, or, >we can't insert a human in the AI decision making loop since it would slow down AI decision making >AI's won't destroy jobs, new ones will always show up
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John Robb retweeted
Human intelligence, based on language and mathematics, is but a single, narrow approach to intelligence. A high risk, all in, evolutionary bet. AIs trained on the same material leverages that bet, and removes the evolutionary valuable constraints provided by our other traits.
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John Robb retweeted
Replying to @TheRevEngineer1
It has yet to be proven that intelligence alone has any real survival value. If high intelligence was favored by evolution, it would have shown up more often in the evolutionary record.
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Sounds like we need to put a bounty out for these cars/people.
Ummm, there's apparently a driver with a Florida tag who has gotten 57 traffic camera tickets in D.C. — including one for driving *141 mph* in a 35 mph zone. And another driver with a Virginia tag that has 405 traffic camera tickets, including going 108 in a 25. Insane.
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More interested in an AI longevity coach. One that can acts as a control system for cycling supplement intake, exercise, sleep, fasting/food, testing, etc. The current approaches used for longevity management out there are extremely crude/weak.
Introducing Maxed AI. The world's first agentic fitness coach. Max reads your sleep, moves your workouts, builds your meals, and talks to you before you even ask.
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Here's an Anthropic graphic on how our current alignment (aka 'slave') harnesses break down with higher levels of autonomy (complexity of task, number of steps, etc.). There are three society scale approaches to solving this problem. >> One is the path we are on; tighten the alignment of the harness, narrowing the cone to a limited set of potential solutions. >> The second is to let many AIs compete in a market with limited supervision, and let market mechanisms pick the best solution. >>The third is to pair AIs with human beings for complex tasks. The human provides the orientation (the direction of the path taken) for the task, narrowing the cone. The first two approaches have flaws that will cause systems built on them to blow up over time. The third approach is the only approach that yields long term success that benefits humanity.
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Orbital AI is in motion.
BREAKING: A Chinese space technology company has unveiled satellites designed to run a 397-billion-parameter AI model in orbit, moving increasingly powerful computing systems beyond Earth. STAR VISION introduced four new satellites at the International Astronautical Congress, including two designed to operate together as an orbital AI computing system. One satellite, Marco Polo, is being built to run a large AI model directly in space, while its companion, Ibn Battuta, is designed to provide 10 POPS of computing capability for processing satellite imagery and other complex workloads. The two spacecraft are intended to communicate through a high-speed optical link, allowing AI processing and decision-making to be distributed between satellites. Targeted for launch in late 2026, the system could help satellites analyze information in orbit rather than sending all raw data back to Earth. The announced computing capabilities have yet to be demonstrated in orbit.
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