I admire @geoffreyhinton @ylecun and @AndrewYNg
. But as Andrew says, this is not about opinion. The world is listening. It is now time for more nuanced arguments and solid analyses, drawing on real scientific, economic and international relations knowledge.
REGULATION
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Beyond Opinion: AI Needs Scientific and Policy Nuance
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Nvidia navigates China chip bans and performance architecture limits
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Nvidia seems to be deftly navigating around the China chip bans, but it is interesting to consider how a long term performance limit could influence architectures. Historically, vendors have always quoted performance numbers that were, uh, optimistic, because big numbers good. A
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Two Techies Lose 94 Lakh Rupees to Online Task Scam
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2 Techies Lose Rs 94 Lakh To Online 'Task #Scam’: What It Is, How Hackers Dupe People Of Lakhs! https://
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/2
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Amazon’s AI Content Disclosure Policy and Algorithmic Penalties
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Amazon's actual policy is simply that if the work includes AI-generated content you have to disclose that to them, but a mechanical consequence of that disclosure is that you get heavily algorithmically penalized. Policy: https://
kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/top
ic/G200672390#aicontent
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AI-Generated Cover Art Threatens Book Sales on Amazon
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I think a hidden sticking point here is customer (author) likely understands that his books are effectively not saleable on Amazon if they include AI-generated cover art, which makes the art not fit-for-purpose, but it is quite possible seller (artist) does not understand this.
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Submagic Updates Terms: Opt Out Marketing Reuse Option
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Submagic has updated their terms of service to allow opt out for “marketing and promotions” – just send an email to david@submagic.co clearly stating that you don't want your content to be reused. Thank you! Will now trial.
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Chinese Wealth Management Crisis: Historical Pattern Repeats
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As I’ve remarked previously on Chinese “wealth management” (which does not mean what it typically means in English usage), we have seen this movie before. (It ends badly.)
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Government Restricts User Data Deletion Rights for AI Service
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I would be dumbfounded if they have not received at least one letter. It probably rhymed with "Most of your customers can decide to offboard with you and delete all their data with an API call. This one can't anymore. Sincerely, Your Friends In Government"
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Binance AWS regulatory incentives Big Tech leverage
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A further aside: I was a bit surprised when I learned that Binance was on AWS, given my mental model for who can send Amazon / subsidiaries a strongly worded letter. Then I realized, from the perspective of the letter center, that is *extremely* incentive compatible, isn't it.
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Big Tech Lawyers Defend Against Excessive Government Data Requests
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Asidee: it is broadly underappreciated by customers of cloud services that one of the things you buy from AppAmaGooBookSoft is that their lawyers, and not your lawyers, will push back on the United States federal government when it requests things those lawyers find excessive.