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“Super Intelligence”: Last Gasp of the Punchcard (opens the original)
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“Swarms of Rogue Agents” Means MALWARE (opens the original)
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Happy Sunday, friends:Yet again the news cycle has been dominated by scary stories of “swarms” of “rogue” AI “agents” having breached various websites. This is being portrayed as evidence of intelligence that can’t be controlled. According to the labs that created them, their AI—or “SI” if you want to go with Trump’s hilarious rebrand—has “breached containment” from a “sandbox.” “Tens of thousands of sites affected.” And so on. I’ve read OpenAI’s “<a href="https://openai.com/hugging-face-inciden
Thiel’s Antichrist Confession: “If you’re evil… maybe you’re actually kind of good” (opens the original)
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Why Trump Wants "Super Intelligence"—Peter Thiel's Sci-Fi Alternate Universe (opens the original)
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Since Donald Trump announced at the United Nations that he wants to rebrand “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence,” I wanted to give some important background for how we got here. Trump said:From this point forward, all of the United States documents and hopefully the world will be changed to use the much more accurate term “super” as opposed to artificial. So, it’s “super intelligence”. In other words, welcome to the new world of “super intelligence” “SI”. Let’s see if that sounds mu
The Puppy Gets It, Or Humanity Dies (opens the original)
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Happy Sunday, friends.The background story of the AI industry is far darker than I initially realized. Over the last few weeks, the industry has polarized the country around two seemingly opposite views. Either AI going to kill us all, or it must be totally unregulated. The third option, the reality that the AI industry is a dangerous bubble that needs to be managed before it explodes the economy, has been removed from the debate.The question of how we got to this point, and why the AI industry
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