They are all looking for billions in new rounds of funding now. If they can get it the shitshow will continue. Looking at the stock price of SpaceX (an artificially inflated fantasy “AI in space” company owned by a Nazi) they will get it.

Did or did not?

I will help you out here… When people say “I think X will happen” it’s not the same as saying “I want X to happen” or “I think X should happen”. I know the difference can be hard to grasp sometimes.

To make it clear… I don’t think AI should be treated like it’s conscious but I think people are stupid enough to do it. This announcement from Anthropic shows that general perception is slowly moving in that direction. What seemed crazy two years ago is now being circulated like a valid idea. Get it now?

Yes, and? If you think people don’t do stupid things every single day go outside and look around.

And?

I said from the beginning that we will get “real” AI when people start treating it as conscious, not when someone will prove that it is. Technical arguments have no place here. We can all know that the AI girlfriend is just a really good text prediction model but if society accepts it as real person it will be treated as such and granted rights. Similar thing happened to animals.

Here’s what the field should do: ignore those paper and never publish them. Then have people verify the math and publish the proofs as their own (whoever can do it first gets the credit).

The other is the widely held suspicion that much of the “breakthrough” mathematics here has been stolen from real researchers who’ve been using chatgpt to develop their theories by talking to it

I think that was just some rumor. In the end the accusation was that they basically brute-forced a solution using methods developed by someone else and claimed they solved it but those methods were public, not stolen because they used ChatGPT.

It sounds more like when AI won in Go for the first time. People were looking at the game and saying “humans don’t play like that, we don’t understand those moves”.

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I try to avoid as much as possible (I will literally spend hours looking for alternative stores instead of buying with one click on Amazon) but sometimes there’s literally no other place to get something from. I order something once every couple of years.

Yes, I don’t know anyone who’s older or younger then me. It’s all a lie.

Fads? Science on intelligence is solid and progressing steadily. We now can point to specific neural processes that determine how well brain operates and explain differences in intelligence. Popular understanding of intelligence is still stuck on basic IQ tests used to compare completely different populations. At some point some feel-good concepts like EQ caught on and it was fashionable to dismiss IQ as ableism or something. You can still see a lot of it but I guess enough research on intelligence is done and some of it still leaks through to the public.

And the biggest lie they spread is that social media is good for democracy.

All those things matter:

• number of EVs on the roads
• number of private chargers
• number of public chargers
• average range
• average charging speed
• average trip distance

For EVs to work you need to have adequate combination of all of them. You can’t simply say “charging speed doesn’t matter” while ignoring range, number of EVs and distance people travel. Why do people insist on focusing only one thing at a time? First it was all about range, not it’s all about charging speeds. It’s not that simple.

There’s no journalism in US anymore. It’s all just different flavors of corporate propaganda.

I will wait for Wi-Fi X.

I tried different things over the years and each time I simply forget to update the tool and just keep track of what needs to be done in my head. In my experience those things are useful for organizing teams. For a one person project a piece of paper should be enough.

Surprisingly, the answer is “it depends”.