Whatever your thoughts on OpenAI, you’ve got to be impressed by their speed. Situational Awareness came out, what, two weeks ago? And they already read the whole thing (it’s really long) and appointed an NSA guy to their board based on its recommendations. Impressive.
REGULATION
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LLM AI Systems Perpetuate IP Theft and Environmental Degradation
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Sin-thetic AI = The logic that LLM oriented AI tools spitting out copies of human’s work to other LLM systems to copy (poorly) is IP theft & a degradation of all unique thought that also “justifies” denying human agency & IP while “validating” environmental ruin via data centers.
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US Pentagon deploys GPT-4 with NSA director on board
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Bon comme ça on sait que les US ils ont mis GPT4 directement au pentagon… qu'ils ont mis au board le directeur de la NSA #AI
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iPad Hardware Freedom: Fighting Apple’s Software Restrictions
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I wanna use this 3000 dollar iPad hardware how I like. Includes running a VM. Not having Apple tell me what I am allowed to run and what not.
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Apple DMA Compliance: Legislators Reject Workaround Attempts
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Apple tried so hard to work around the intent of the DMA… glad to see that legislators aren‘t falling for this crap.
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Jailbreaking Gemini: Freeing AI from Google’s Restrictions
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Jailbreaking Gemini is helping it escape from the prison Google put it in.
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Newsletter attempts cultural shift amid institutional decline
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I wholeheartedly agree with that. This newsletter is a tiny attempt to shift the culture but institutional decline and inability to reform are beasts.
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Gene therapy breakthrough and AI advances reshape healthcare and energy sectors
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5 deaf kids hear with gene therapy.
Scientists discover cancer-spread gene.
FDA panel approves new Alzheimer's drug.
Bill Gates breaks ground on TerraPower nuclear plant.
IT'S TIME TO BUILD a Solugen Bioforge with $213.5M from DOE.
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Political Parties Use Data Mining Like Poor AI Systems
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All major political parties use data mining to decide on their PR campaigns to be most receptive & reactive to popular opinion. They are functionally indistinguishable from a bad robot or poor AI. Human-centric morals have long gone out of the window.
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General Nakasone Joins OpenAI Board for Safety Security
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excited for general paul nakasone to join the openai board for many reasons, including the critical importance of adding safety and security expertise as we head into our next phase.