Something stinks to high hell with this whole Trump admin pledging to spend $500 billion for AI infrastructure. Despite what all the doomers and true believers and the tech bros claim, I strongly doubt it's about some AI arms race to "AGI" or "superintelligence." More likely it's an effort to leverage Big Tech influence over governments …
Something stinks to high hell with this whole Trump admin pledging to spend $500 billion for AI infrastructure. Despite what all the doomers and true believers and the tech bros claim, I strongly doubt it's about some AI arms race to "AGI" or "superintelligence." More likely it's an effort to leverage Big Tech influence over governments with powerful, but nonetheless still very limited technologies. The tradeoff for governments? Having access to this tech and contracts for themselves and selling or claiming the data and ability to monitor and influence all citizens they want. This is Cambridge Analytica in 2016 on steroids. If the tech bros aren't careful, they may end up getting gobbled up by more hostile governments like Trump's. Amazon and Bezos are right to be on edge.
It’s also grift. How much do you think will flow to Musk’s AI venture, and to AI companies owned by billionaires who supported Trump or are now bending the knee to him?
I find it terrifying that Trump is now in charge of America’s many intelligence agencies as well as our military. He’ll soon be repurposing both.
Musk already seems to be calling out Altman and others involved in the Stargate project, calling it a fraud by claiming OpenAI lacks the money for the project. Seems like Musk has many bridges to still burn and more enemies to wage his petty fights with.
Musk is actually more correct than not on this one . . . the reporting on this announcement was terrible. It's not federal money; it's simply a "pledge" by these companies to spend that much over an indefinite amount of time. At most a quarter of it will come to fruition. Softbank in particular is notorious for making splashy announcements which don't end up happening.
I don't even trust Microsoft anymore. With Windows 11 there's so much bloatware including their COpilot chatbot that constantly spies on you and collects your data. If I ever do get Windows 11 it will be strictly for work. I may have to learn and switch to Linux. I won't play long with this Robocop/Bladerunner dystopia these tech bros want.
Yeah, people were calling it a Trump plan when it was just the companies trying to get more attention when they announced their intention to do something that they would have done regardless of how the election went. Musk, of course, denounced it because these companies are his competitors.
However, I should point out Ellison was flat out staying AI can develop cancer vaccines as opposed to simply stating that AI can help substantially with medical research.
Research can uncover many things but developing vaccines for cancer is the great unknown. We don’t yet know what will be uncovered from medical research, even with AI. Even with medical science, changes happen in a regular basis that not even AI can predict or calculate.
Until an actual vaccine is developed, Ellison & Co are being delusional.
Something stinks to high hell with this whole Trump admin pledging to spend $500 billion for AI infrastructure. Despite what all the doomers and true believers and the tech bros claim, I strongly doubt it's about some AI arms race to "AGI" or "superintelligence." More likely it's an effort to leverage Big Tech influence over governments with powerful, but nonetheless still very limited technologies. The tradeoff for governments? Having access to this tech and contracts for themselves and selling or claiming the data and ability to monitor and influence all citizens they want. This is Cambridge Analytica in 2016 on steroids. If the tech bros aren't careful, they may end up getting gobbled up by more hostile governments like Trump's. Amazon and Bezos are right to be on edge.
It’s also grift. How much do you think will flow to Musk’s AI venture, and to AI companies owned by billionaires who supported Trump or are now bending the knee to him?
I find it terrifying that Trump is now in charge of America’s many intelligence agencies as well as our military. He’ll soon be repurposing both.
Musk already seems to be calling out Altman and others involved in the Stargate project, calling it a fraud by claiming OpenAI lacks the money for the project. Seems like Musk has many bridges to still burn and more enemies to wage his petty fights with.
Other than RFK Jr, Musk seems the likeliest to rapidly wear out his welcome with the inner sanctum and get put out to pasture
May it be so – and the sooner the better. It would be a catastrophe if Trump maneuvers a Musk purchase of TikTok.
One thing I will give Musk credit for - He doesn't have weird and creepy habits like RFK Jr does.
Musk is actually more correct than not on this one . . . the reporting on this announcement was terrible. It's not federal money; it's simply a "pledge" by these companies to spend that much over an indefinite amount of time. At most a quarter of it will come to fruition. Softbank in particular is notorious for making splashy announcements which don't end up happening.
I don't trust any of these mofos
I don't even trust Microsoft anymore. With Windows 11 there's so much bloatware including their COpilot chatbot that constantly spies on you and collects your data. If I ever do get Windows 11 it will be strictly for work. I may have to learn and switch to Linux. I won't play long with this Robocop/Bladerunner dystopia these tech bros want.
I used Windows computers for years. I've been happy to have a Mac.
Yeah, people were calling it a Trump plan when it was just the companies trying to get more attention when they announced their intention to do something that they would have done regardless of how the election went. Musk, of course, denounced it because these companies are his competitors.
Isn't this how we get the Tabernacle* from Zardoz?
*An abstract supercomputer that is a repository of all human knowledge that manages the lives of the elites in perpetual comfort and isolation.
When Larry Ellison is in the White House talking about AI being able to make a cancer vaccine, you know this is purely dillusional thinking.
Ellison's trying to be relevant in whatever way he can these days but he doesn't have any real ideas anymore.
AI accelerating medicine research is actually one of its few short term innovative use cases; most other applications are glorified search engines
I agree with you on that.
However, I should point out Ellison was flat out staying AI can develop cancer vaccines as opposed to simply stating that AI can help substantially with medical research.
Research can uncover many things but developing vaccines for cancer is the great unknown. We don’t yet know what will be uncovered from medical research, even with AI. Even with medical science, changes happen in a regular basis that not even AI can predict or calculate.
Until an actual vaccine is developed, Ellison & Co are being delusional.