Daniel Riek

Free Software (not as in Beer).
Opinions still are mine unless explicitly stated otherwise.

[Václav Pavlín | λ @vpavlin]

Uuuuge!

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

SB-1047 would definitely have a chilling effect on open source AI and the entire AI ecosystem.
Very much hoping that Governor @GavinNewsom will veto it.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

If this actually happens (🤔), I will revise my view of what is possible substantially to the upside.

[Julien Chaumond @julien_c]

anyone remembers google bard?

[Daniel Riek @RiekDaniel]

@Dan_Jeffries1 @martin_casado Most of the AI-doomer academics I seem to encounter hail from Australia, the UK, and Canada. There is a pattern.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

How could computers multiplying numbers lead to "literal human extinction?"

Doomers never say how, and politicians never press them because they imagine something like Terminator.

The whole thing is an absurd clownshow.

[Daniel Riek @RiekDaniel]

@austin_rief They are paying the millions for an external party to tell the company what they can not say for political/cultural/relationship reasons internally.

[Daniel Riek @RiekDaniel]

@timothysc I am actually interested in trying that. Why? Because I want a standardized way to rebuild all dependencies for a specific ISA target. Right now I am rebuilding a bunch of Fedora packages - but that is painful. So thinking about moving to Gentoo or Nix.

[Daniel Riek @RiekDaniel]

I am pretty sure that Space X is working on something in this area. What is the plan?
Or are they going to do what the book #DeltaV speculates and just keep the resources in space, build there?

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

China Proposes Magnetic Launch System for Sending Resources Back to Earth https://t.co/ukSpFTYyD9 via @universetoday

[Daniel Riek @RiekDaniel]

"AI may eliminate millions of jobs, but it also may help us cure cancer" Do you know how many well paying jobs depend on cancer? So are you suggesting we keep that around? If not, what is the point?

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

Maybe if we red teamed legislation as fiercely we red team AI, we'd get better legislation.

Sadly many people who propose legislation are actively hostile to any and all feedback.

This post from a lawyer, engineer and former FTC employee looks at the unintended side effects of legislation like SB1047 and how "reasonable" is always in the mind of the beholder and the enforcer.

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

1. These are not whistleblowers. They exposed no crime. This is not Enron. They didn't even expose bad security practices, just practices they felt were not good enough for them.

2. OpenAI just publicly stated that they oppose this legislation, because it is poorly designed. They also said they favor federal legislation.

3. Just because someone supports legislation in general does not mean they have to support bad legislation.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

An important op-ed by Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) and Daniel Ek (Spotify) in The Economist about the fuzzy and disparate regulatory landscape in the EU and how it is becoming an obstacle to the development and deployment of technology in the EU, particularly when it comes to AI and open source.

[Bindu Reddy @bindureddy]

Maybe the doomers can shut up now!

An official sounding study that proclaims AI is not an existential threat to humanity just dropped! 😃

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

How did outlandishly fringe AI doomsday cults gain so much unwarranted political influence?

[Daniel Riek @RiekDaniel]

@tegmark And then they find out how bad any of this regulation actually would be. Better late than never.

[Daniel Riek @RiekDaniel]

@alex_avoigt Build nuclear power plants.

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

@tsarnick This is an absolutely clownish take that gets more unhinged as we go along. When this is the kind of commentary coming from respected tech leaders is it even surprising that people are confused? Like go make infinite TikToks and steal all the users? What the actual hell?

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Even if we deindustrialized Europe back into Middle Ages as some degrowth weirdos dream of, it wouldn’t help climate too much.

The problem is somewhere else, unfortunately even throwing tomato soup at Mona Lisa has fairly limited impact in this regard.

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

People whose primary approach to life is preventing all risk and preventing all harm, do more harm than the harm they were trying to prevent.