Can we get an actual investigation of the Hugging Face hack? I'd bet we have been misled about what happened. Someone almost certainly went to Altman and got his permission to do dangerous things. But we don't know because we got a sci-fi novel instead of an investigation.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has a warning: Russia is planning a serious rocket attack against a NATO country on the eastern flank, which it'll pass as "accidental."
The goal: paralyze NATO and weaken Article 5 commitments.
https://t.co/KiuNxP7GJY
Per Alex Karp, Anthropic's business model entails stealing all of their customers' intellectual property and now they want to be nationalized to avoid being sued into oblivion.
NEW: in the coming weeks, House Democrats are going to unveil an AI policy response. It’ll be decided by a Jeffries appointed commission stacked with members funded by the AI industry including Ron Conway and Leading the Future PAC led by OpenAI, A16z and Palantir's Joe Lonsdale
At the Bernie-Bannon AI hysteria conference, they allowed a heretical voice on stage—who happens to be one of the smartest & most accomplished technologists on Earth.
Jaron Lanier explained the origins of the problem—Minsky et al. anthropomorphizing AI because it sold well.
The problem begins with calling it artificial *intelligence* far before you could plausibly argue that it was.
Jaron calmly explains how the industry is now essentially a religion focused on building a machine god instead of tools for humans.
For example, he says “agents” used to mean agents of humans—but now the industry switched it to “agentic AI” which makes loops of prompts sound like they have motivation or sentience.
This is really worth watching. Jaron is a legitimate genius.
Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants. https://t.co/AAvQwDUyIw
Maintenance costs for AI-generated code have jumped 300% in 18 months, code duplication is up 48% and refactoring has dropped 60%. The result could be a massive technical debt problem hiding inside companies that initially saw AI coding as a productivity win: Checkmarx
We have to build AI that murders us, because if we don’t, China will build it first, and I don’t want to get murdered by a computer that speaks Chinese. That would be ridiculous.
NEW: Former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll reportedly met with Trump to inform him that the Iran war was making it impossible to achieve foreign-policy goals, Trump talked exclusively about his ballroom in response, causing Driscoll to resign believing the admin was “doomed.”