Oh sweet baby Jesus no, burn AI to the ground, humanity can't be trusted with it

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Agema

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What, aren't you eager for your AI doctor to prescribe a new fuel filter and transmission fluid change?
It's okay. There will be a human somewhere in there to throw to the wolves when the AI fucks up.
 

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So seems like Grok gets access to all US military archives and secrets for scraping


And as we know, with promt injection that means every country on the planet does.
 
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So seems like Grok gets access to all US military archives and secrets for scraping
I can think of just about no way that anyone would give Grok that sort of deal unless a) they were letting ALL AIs have a go to see which one they liked or b) Grok's owner has politically ingratiated himself with the government so he can be handed crony capitalist contracts.
 
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This is much better than the AI data center spam.

Good lord. How long until we can't see the stars for all the satellites? I remember when I was a kid you could watch the sky for a long time without seeing a satellite, now it's almost a constant stream.
 

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I agree with this move. Not because i want China to launch 200k satellites but because this will finally make the world put limits on who can claim what. The old first come first served wild west rules have led to Musk claiming much of the availible space just for himself.
 

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Good lord. How long until we can't see the stars for all the satellites? I remember when I was a kid you could watch the sky for a long time without seeing a satellite, now it's almost a constant stream.
We just need to wait until the stupid selfishness of our species pumps so much crap into orbit that eventually it goes out of control and we end up unable to go to space due to debris.

Let's face it, it's just what our species does. Everyone rushes to grab their real estate. Those there first misuse or overexploit it, and others cut out from the initial rush will just force their way in anyway. And in the end, everything is ruined for everyone.
 

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We just need to wait until the stupid selfishness of our species pumps so much crap into orbit that eventually it goes out of control and we end up unable to go to space due to debris.

Let's face it, it's just what our species does. Everyone rushes to grab their real estate. Those there first misuse or overexploit it, and others cut out from the initial rush will just force their way in anyway. And in the end, everything is ruined for everyone.
On the plus side, maybe the cloud of high velocity space debris will become dense enough to reflect enough light to counteract global warming.
 
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On the plus side, maybe the cloud of high velocity space debris will become dense enough to reflect enough light to counteract global warming.
Could work the other way, light which isn't directed at earth getting reflected at it. In the 90s the Russians kept talking about giant space mirrors to warm bits of Russia otherwise unsuitable for farmland.

Like Elon Musk's plan to blot out the sun, it predictably went nowhere.
 

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Could work the other way, light which isn't directed at earth getting reflected at it. In the 90s the Russians kept talking about giant space mirrors to warm bits of Russia otherwise unsuitable for farmland.

Like Elon Musk's plan to blot out the sun, it predictably went nowhere.
Maybe, but without a specific planned design to reflect the light at a target I'm pretty sure the odds are just higher that a photon hitting a particle in Earth's orbit would be reflected away. Like you would have some high angle reflections back to Earth, but I feel like this would be offset by all the direct reflections. Also, not being mirrors, the debris cloud would tend to absorb a lot of energy, more than half of which would be radiated away from Earth. Of course, the same goes for energy being radiated away from Earth itself, so who knows.
 

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55% of surveyed CEOs are saying that they aren't seeing the cost reductions and revenue increases that AI promised.


That's 42% seeing no change, 12% only seeing an increase in costs, and 1% seeing both an increase in costs and reduction in revenue. Only 12% saw both an increase in revenue and decrease in costs.
It feels like it could be "pivot to video" all over again, but much larger and with the possibility of crashing the entire stock market rather than just some media companies.
 
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Talking about Google, it's worth reading this about Google's plans to monetise AI.

Google says it's AI-derived "personalised pricing" will only be used for discounts, and the article points out how laughably easy it is to manipulate the system to make paying more than you should seem like a discount. If something could be sold for $1.00, make the basic cost $2.00 and then the discounts up to 90c so $1.10 looks like a great deal. Everyone pays more, but think they're getting it cheap.

Maybe, just maybe, if you haven't already get out of Google now. As much as possible stop using Google search, stop using Gmail, stop using Google Maps, etc.
 
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I'm teaching a short software class, like 4 hours total over a couple classes, on a relatively simple pdf editor. The software company has announced future plans for how AI will integrate into it. The president of the company I am teaching this to has largely removed himself from the class, but is hoping I can teach them how to get the unreleased AI integrations to read bidding documents and assess for them whether a project is worth them bidding on in the first place. The most common use of this program is to draw little red clouds on blueprints...

I am not surprised by CEOs finding AI isn't giving them the results they were hoping for, cause the results they were hoping for are pure insanity.
 
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