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What's even funnier is that people think a billionaire is going to try and reverse the effects of neoliberalism despite the fact that he benefits greatly from it. He's lying. All you fools are being taken for a ride.

I think only the USA call left-leaning people "liberals". Otherwise it refers to classical liberalism and neo-liberalism, i.e. : small government, shift to the private sector, concurrency and free market, no regulations, etc. It's the exact opposite of socialism, the most common left-wing position.

> I don't think there will be many human Uber drivers in 5 years. People have been making similar predictions for years, and we've seen little advancement. The tests have been extremely limited, human drivers are almost always on board, and basic practical limitations like icy/snowy conditions haven't even begun to be addressed. We're a ways off - perhaps decades - from seeing widespread self…

Creating a vaccine is only the first step. It then has to be thoroughly tested to make sure it's safe for human use, and then there's deals to be struck with pharmaceutical companies for production and distribution, and on top of that there's federal regulations and approvals that need to be met before a single vial goes on the market. Even if one of the research institutions working on it decl…

Because the EU is doing something about the virus. The US isn't. And we are terrified. And we feel helpless and ignored. So commenting on Reddit articles makes us feel like we control something, even if it's just our own words.

It's predicting based on a single tweet. Not an entire profile. That makes it impressive. But the main point is that the opinions in a particular country are polarised enough to make the task easy enough for machine learning, not that the machine learning is impressive

Housing prices are up and homes are in short supply, so if you lose your job you can just sell at a profit. In 2009, many of the people who lost their job were also underwater on their mortgage, so foreclosure was their best case scenario

I would agree with you if only the difference in rates werent so staggering. It's like complaining about women homelessness increasing when the vast majority of homeless people are men. Or complaining about male breast cancer rates when women breast cancer rates are much, much higher.

Dont forget the colonization and draining resources through fancy corporations. Sure, developing countries are often corrupted but a lot of this was driven and created by foreign forces. Its double drain than just the carbon emissions.

To be fair, generalizing “Africa” doesn’t do us any good. Not ALL of Africa “skipped landline phones.” There are countries in the north that did, and still do, have landline phones.

This has been a "problem" forever with each new technology but new jobs are always created. It's scary and can lead to big changes but new jobs are always created. Edit: many are responding to this comment. It's easy to be pessimistic about everything. It's the cool thing to do. I get it. It's tough to be optimistic and often gets crapped on. AI is a tool. It will be used to increase pr…

Internships are not about doing grunt work, they are a foot in the door to a business or industry. Replacing interns with AI cuts off your supply line of new hires into your industry. Replacing grunt work the interns do with AI, and having the interns do something else is more likely (probably have them do whatever annoying tasks get created by using AI)

ChatGPT is for me an advanced email assistant. I run all my professional emails through it with the phrase “Refine this email” and it produces a very similar email that’s a little better than what I did. It’s never messed up my intentions in it’s rendition of my email, so you could reasonably say there’s a layer of intentionality behind it’s outputs. I’ve also used it to ask questions, and it’s…

Yep, the excitement over ChatGPT isn't because of what it currently is, rather that it gives a glimpse at the future potential of AI and that it isn't that far away. It reminds me about how people dismissed videogames in the 80's or the internet in the 90's because they focused on what it was instead of what it had the potential to be.

Right. This is what I don’t get. If I build an AI in my house, are the AI police going to come for me? If I want to invest and build my own AI engine, will I have to jump through countless regulatory hoops to do anything with it? These guys can’t even do a software update on their own phones and they’re going to write rules for what software engineers are allowed to do? So… if I’m going to s…

This “large startup” let 90% of its staff go, which was 23 people. So total staff was ~26 people. And “it allowed the company to go in different directions”. I hear that as “we were running a call center, but it wasn’t being profitable, so we decided to put an AI on handling our existing customers and figure out some other line of business to be more profitable.”

Russia would also know it was coming ahead of time. No way the South African government would be able to keep any plans to arrest him a secret from moles.

If you want to do this within the ChatGPT interface, something like this has worked for me: > Hi! Let’s play 20 questions. You think of something, and tell me what it is in Japanese. I don’t speak Japanese, so I’ll play 20 questions to try to figure it out. OK?

The Company is still kinda sketchy tho Not sure if a permanently running camera and a facial recognition software is actually more energy performant than just having the vending machine display the purchase interface all the time. At best, this could be solved with a simply sensor that checks for movement infront of the vending machine to turn on the display lights.

Hundreds of thousands of words and pages have been written on the topic of AI Risks. All of the ones ending badly start with something like “we knew the risks but thought we could manage them”.