Diffcult things that make me ponder

The fight between creators and AI companies is fierce. The current paradigm in AI is to build bigger and bigger models, and there is, at least currently, no getting around the fact that they require vast data sets hoovered from the internet to train on.

chair for the Australian Centre for Space Governance and specialist in international space law, space security and global space governance Cassandra Steer said no one foresaw the potential risks that could come from the use of LEO satellites by Starlink.

“They had this LEO telecommunications working group for a couple of years. I would suggest they... See more

The moral isn’t to stop listening to ideas you find uncomfortable or people who don’t agree. It’s to do it in real life, not in the digital equivalent of a pub notorious for glassing at chucking-out time

Airplanes will be more effective than autos in wiping out misunderstandings between people, because they will reduce distances in the world. They can even work for peace, because when they become popular they will put power in the people’s hands… and make short work of the warmongers.

An advanced model capable of holding in focus all that information would have a profound familiarity with all the words and ideas that have shaped my personal mindset. Certainly its ability to provide accurate and properly-cited answers to questions about my worldview (or my intellectual worldview, at least) would exceed that of any other human.

the epochal change that may await us just over history’s horizon. “For now we see in a glass, darkly,” he wrote. “Now I know in part, but then shall I know fully.”

Back in 2016, it was Google that I was focussed on. Google was prompting users to search for results on whether the holocaust really happened and when they did, they were being sent straight to Stormfront, a Nazi website.

if internet years were like "dog years," AI development is moving at machine speed — faster than humans can adapt.