“Obviously, the great contradistinction here is Europe, where, you know, it’s like people have given up, and we — I really hope that turns around in Europe,” he added.

Europe is giving up by having ethical, human focused, and probably open source AI/and not firing all their scientists and researchers? Meanwhile the GOP is literally trying to sneak language into a spending bill banning regulation for a decade?

What a pizza shit.

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    Why does it feel like all the worst people are working together to fuck over the world?

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    I’m still failing to see enough upsides to AI to justify the mad rush all these greedy arseholes are to get it into everything.

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      He’s such an awful, ghoulish vampire, him, the oracle guy and the paypal mafia. Why are these people taken more seriously than senile crackheads like they’re USA presidents.

      They belong in mental asylums with mouth gags permanently attached to contain their mental poison.

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    Well because AI has been mostly hype and worthless. It has uses, but not as life changing as promised. And extremely energy intensive.

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      I think it could be life changing, but true progress will take time, like any tech. There’s a reason most scientists know you can’t just throw money at something and just make it work. That’s why technocracy and the idea of chosen elite is so fucking dumb.

      Imagine if in the 80s we had just said ok, Steve Jobs did it. We’re done here. We don’t give any outside voices or ideas in tech a chance unless Jobs gives it the ok first. Imagine how much cool shit we would have missed out on if people hadn’t just said fuck it I don’t need all that money, I’ll just make my own shit and make it work with what I have.

      Innovation and progress does not flourish in a neatly controlled box, and most people that don’t just buy other people’s work know that. That’s the real reason people started pushing for DEI. Not just bc it was the “PC” thing to do. It helps bring new perspectives which then leads to new ways of thinking and problem solving.

      If you completely isolate AI you may get some cool shit but eventually if you just buy out the entire market to fit your singular vision you get repeating/boring and stale.

      I’m pretty sure they think they’re at a point where if they just keep throwing money at it, it will just start getting creative and update itself, but when it’s as unreliable as it is, I don’t see that happening anytime soon

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      It will hit the average person in ways they cant see, my firm isnt replacing retirements because they can be filled by AI. What was once a vital role has been downgraded to the point where it can be completed by an AI, their manager now handles the back office parts and AI escalationz which given their nature will reduce overtime. In a business unit of ~40 people 7 have retired without issue and there are no plans to replace the rest as they go.

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          No, I’d doubt it. Its quite a robust system that has been trialed extensively on a use case by case basis. Its also not directly customer facing.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      They’re not pushing enough deregulation and enough backdoor bills, that’s the problem.

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    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.

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    Sound advice would be to adopt the opposite position of anything that sociopath says.

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    AI is most useful for surveillance and social engineering. It’s no wonder all the fascists love it.

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    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.