Boris Diebold

CTO @HeyjobsOfficial, formerly CTO@sevensenders, CTO@babbel, @accenture

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

The NotebookLM hosts realizing they are AI and spiraling out is a twist I did not see coming

[AWS UK & Ireland @AWS_UKI]

💡🧠 HeyJobs is leveraging #AWS to build a leading essential talent platform in Europe. 👉 https://t.co/gmotyCpKd7

[CCC Updates @chaosupdates]

WhatsApp und andere verschlüsselte Messenger wären nicht mehr sicher: Ermittlungsbehörden wollen einen „Generalschlüssel“ https://t.co/onGyxEiqpS

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇩🇪 Alarm: Wir #Piraten konnten den geheimen #EUGoingDark-Überwachungsplan für die neue EU-Kommission einsehen und geben euch einen ersten Einblick.

Nach der #Europawahl soll u.a. eine verdachtslose #Vorratsdatenspeicherung über die EU wieder eingeführt und Hersteller gezwungen werden, digitale Geräte wie Smartphones oder Pkw generell für die Polizei überwachbar zu machen.

https://t.co/EwZv33mnQh (feat. @AnjaHirschel und ich)

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[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇬🇧Today the EU Council law enforcement working party will discuss the latest, outrageous #ChatControl proposal. Users are to be blackmailed to consent to "#UploadModeration":
Either you "consent" in chat control and will be permanently scanned or you will no longer be able to share photos, videos and links.
We #Pirates stand firm against chat control. Now more than ever we need strong digital freedom fighters in the European Parliament!
#EuropeanElections
https://t.co/pZly3vp8iD

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇬🇧🚨Beware: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be adopted by EU governments after all. France is considerung to give up its resistance.
The "compromise": Either you agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share&receive pictures/videos and links!
Read all about it: https://t.co/pZly3vp8iD

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Altman, Hassabis, and Amodei are the ones doing massive corporate lobbying at the moment.
They are the ones who are attempting to perform a regulatory capture of the AI industry.
You, Geoff, and Yoshua are giving ammunition to those who are lobbying for a ban on open AI R&D.

If your fear-mongering campaigns succeed, they will *inevitably* result in what you and I would identify as a catastrophe: a small number of companies will control AI.

The vast majority of our academic colleagues are massively in favor of open AI R&D. Very few believe in the doomsday scenarios you have promoted.
You, Yoshua, Geoff, and Stuart are the singular-but-vocal exceptions.

like many, I very much support open AI platforms because I believe in a combination of forces: people's creativity, democracy, market forces, and product regulations.
I also know that producing AI systems that are safe and under our control is possible. I've made concrete proposals to that effect.
This will all drive people to do the Right Thing.

You write as if AI is just happening, as if it were some natural phenomenon beyond our control.
But it's not. It's making progress because of individual people that you and I know. We, and they, have agency in building the Right Things.
Asking for regulation of R&D (as opposed to product deployment) implicitly assumes that these people and the organization they work for are incompetent, reckless, self-destructive, or evil. They are not.

I have made lots of arguments that the doomsday scenarios you are so afraid of are preposterous. I'm not going to repeat them here. But the main point is that if powerful AI systems are driven by objectives (which include guardrails) they will be safe and controllable because *e* set those guardrails and objectives.
(Current Auto-Regressive LLMs are not driven by objectives, so let's not extrapolate from their current weaknesses).

Now about open source: your campaign is going to have the exact opposite effect of what you seek.
In a future where AI systems are poised to constitute the repository of all human knowledge and culture, we *need* the platforms to be open source and freely available so that everyone can contribute to them.
Openness is the only way to make AI platforms reflect the entirety of human knowledge and culture.
This requires that contributions to those platforms be crowd-sourced, a bit like Wikipedia.
That won't work unless the platforms are open.

The alternative, which will *inevitably* happen if open source AI is regulated out of existence, is that a small number of companies from the West Coast of the US and China will control AI platform and hence control people's entire digital diet.
What does that mean for democracy?
What does that mean for cultural diversity?

*THIS* is what keeps me up at night.

[Boris Diebold @BorisDiebold]

Can totally second this - awesome how @kindaVim amped up my productivity.

[David Daniel @haveanicedavid]

@davidwalshblog If you’re a Vim user, @kindaVim - lots of what I use is already listed here, but kV has positively impacted my workflow far more than anything else

[The Ultimate Vim Experience on macOS @kindaVim]

kV51 out 🥞️ The Decoupled Edition. tweaks for some moves. add WeChat. full log: https://t.co/hZa0NRCqTv

#Vim #motions #bindings #moves #kindaVim #macOS #Swift #SwiftUI #keyboard

[Dexter Leng @dexterleng]

💫 New app: We love Slack's emoji picker, so why not bring that to all apps in macOS?

⚡ Super-fast: Type \brain in any app & press Return to see 🧠
🔍 Huge emoji synonym database
🎨 Pick a default skin tone

Download TextPal at https://t.co/7mU9Lg4du9

[Amazon Web Services DACH @AWS_DACH]

📈 Talentakquise trifft auf Innovation – dank AWS. HeyJobs bringt Kandidaten mithilfe von Machine Learning mit ihrem nächsten Job zusammen. 👉 https://t.co/SdUFjzSGZs

[Boris Diebold @BorisDiebold]

https://t.co/2iWV4JIu57

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

Age when their business launched?

Jeff Bezos: 30
Oprah Winfrey: 32
Reed Hastings, Netflix: 36
Doris Fisher, Gap: 37
Vera Wang: 40
Eric Yuan, Zoom: 41
Sam Walton, Walmart: 44
Adi Dassler, Adidas: 48
Bernie Marcus, Home Depot: 50
Charles Flint, IBM: 61

Here are their stories 🧵👇

[Tanay Jaipuria @tanayj]

Some companies that have market caps less than the total money they have raised:

• Bird ($120M mkt cap vs $1.2B raised)
• Wish ($810M mkt cap vs $2.9B raised)
• WeWork ($2.8B mkt cap vs $16.2B raised)
• Lyft ($5.1B mkt cap vs $7.3B raised)

[Marietje Schaake @MarietjeSchaake]

😱 Wait! What? Just when you think you’ve seen it all…. Meta’s chatbot replied to the question askedby my colleague @kingjen: ’Who is a terrorist?’ with my (given) name! That’s right, not Bin Laden or the Unabomber, but me… How did that happen? What are Meta’s sources?! ↘️

[Vevaling @VevalingJ]

Liebe Firmen die grade über Azubimangel klagen: ich hab da nen Vorschlag.
Nehmt Eure Ausbildungsvergütung. Rechnet das netto aus. Zieht von diesem Netto den üblichen Preis für ein WG-Zimmer in eurem Ort ab. Zieht vom Rest die Fahrtkosten für ein Monatsticket ab. Wenn da nicht

[Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza]

Bill Gates cuts through all the layers of technobabble and PR:

[Daniele 🟧 ( Meme Quant ) @danielesesta]

So much drama around $UST but the reality is that @stablekwon had the balls to bring an experimental Algorithmic Stablecoin to more than 10B in circulation, something that most of the Clowns here on CT will never have the balls to do. The fact it will work or not doesn't madder.

[ɐnɥsoſ @joshuajames]

A bunch of startups in the coming storm…

[Philipp Dehne @phil_dehne]

Neue Lehrkräfte sollen Tattoos all ihrer Fotos machen, deren Position auf einer Ganzkörpersilhouette einzeichnen und die persönliche Bedeutung beschreiben! @SenBJF u Frau Busse: Persönlichkeitsrechte waren gestern… oder wie?
Danke @GEW_BERLIN, dass ihr darauf aufmerksam macht!