> Right now, they are utilized to further the class divide between rich and poor.
Ironically this was the main reason LLMs were introduced in the first place, not to benefit the poor, but to widen the gap between the rich and the poor.
> “The last four years have demonstrated that AI agents can acquire the will to survive and that AIs have already learned how to lie.”
Why Harari feels an obligation to comment about everything is of course beyond me, but describing 'AI' as if it takes independent decisions to lie, make moral judgements, etc. demonstrates either that he has zero clue how 'AI' trains itself or that he chooses to mislead the audience.
Isn't the problem precisely that it does not take moral judgements?
My opinion on all of this is constantly shifting, but right now my main issue is that-like self driving-it seems 90-95% correct and 5-10% catastrophically wrong.
Due to the sheer speed and volume of output it produces I have grown complacent and exhausted, so when I give it simple tasks I assume it is correct and then is the time when "it deletes" all of your files.
And people that are likely to not be bought wouldn't enter politics in most cases. To enter and succeed in politics needs ambition and skillset that is diametrically opposite to a honest person.
Yet, the same Cloudflare wants to control entire internet traffic single-handedly.
The Internet was not created for this.
One could argue that 'but they are very good at preventing DDoS attacks' — yes they are; however, they have always loved control and kept their technology proprietary to lock their customers into their systems. And one day, a single line of code disrupted many services on the web.
Centralization and monopolies are much bigger threats to the future of the internet, IMHO. (Which always follows the same pattern: give your customers free or unbelievably cheaper services, even at a loss, lock them in, then jack up the price.)
I rarely restart my Mac mini, and I have never had such an issue beyond my internet provider suddenly stopping properly working in the middle of the night.
At this point, it’s very clear that people nowadays choose Rust mostly to be part of the cult rather than clearly understanding its shortcomings and advantages over languages such as C, C++. It has gotten to the point that some devs after watching a YouTube video criticizing C++ for two hours, announce C++ the worst programming language. Unfortunately, such people become decision makers at giant tech companies too.
I am really annoyed by all these kindergarten "AI experts" that comment on my use of the emdash (apparently they never wrote anything in a text processor).
Please don't break the site guidelines, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.
You're right about em dashes of course (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154752) but being right on a point does not make it ok to attack another user or violate the rules of the site.
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