Update: This is worse than I thought. Workers in Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa are also reporting that they are being blocked from the website or cannot create an account. It's possible that Scale AI suspended Remotasks far beyond just Kenya.
ECONOMY
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Musk’s Self-Driving Timeline Shifts Again After Years of Predictions
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My brain hurts trying to figure this out. Headline: "Elon Musk Says It Will Be A Decade Before Most Cars Are Self-Driving — There Is A More 'Immediate Concern' At Hand". From the guy who has said every year for ten years that self driving will be here by the end of the year, the
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AI transforms public spaces transit retail education employment
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Most people spend lots of time in public transit, on city sidewalks, in retail stores, places of education, employment and administration
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Money as Digital Dopamine in Planetary AGI Networks
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money is digital dopamine, a message type in a global information network that strings 8 billion talking monkeys into a planetary agi
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Human Expertise Remains Valuable Under AGI Compute Constraints
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Worthwhile economic argument about why human intellectual labor will be valuable even if we achieve AGI: As long as AGI compute is limited (& it will be under any reasonable scenario), it may be cheaper to use human experts in their area of expertise, saving AGI for other work.
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Bernie Sanders Proposes Four-Day Work Week Amid AI Automation
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Bernie Sanders proposed a bill establishing a four-day work week in the U.S. with no loss of pay, citing productivity gains from AI and automation.
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IMF inflation forecasts versus recession risks debate
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The IMF puts inflation a lot lower than eg Summers. We may actually be in a recession?
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LLM Access Democratized: Leaders Must Adapt to Equal Technology
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A thing many leaders of organizations have not internalized is the fact that no one in any company* or government has access to a better LLM than the ones billions of people around the world can use for between $0-$20/month Very unusual to have democratized access from the start
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Corporate Responsibility: Poverty Wages and Worker Safety Ethics
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Where does your implication that paying poverty $ is 'natural' and providing people with the resources to live in exchange for their labor is 'idealistic'? Where's your smoke for corps that could rn make changes to create safer streets & less impoverished workers, but refuse?
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Corporate AI Responsibility Over Victimhood Mentality
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He is not a victim of AI. He is a victim of a company that chose to use AI… and he’s choosing to see himself as a victim. Not a productive stance in my opinion.