It’s a great way to sign up young men for military duty too, sell it to them like it’s something exciting and awesome… and they can’t handle it.
einarfd 1 hours ago [-]
He will probably tell them exactly what they want him to say. If he means it or not. That is hard to say.
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mlnj 20 minutes ago [-]
When has anyone faced scrutiny over their lies to these politicians?
cpcabbge 24 minutes ago [-]
Why these bug eyed salamanders have any say at all for any of this is beyond me. He's a tech ceo who wants to make money, nothing more.
nba456_ 15 minutes ago [-]
I thought you meant the UN at first and was about to agree. They should have no say about US tech.
dyauspitr 13 minutes ago [-]
He’s rich, in charge of a pretty significant company that has made history and continues to do so.
hfc56 15 minutes ago [-]
Who do you think designed central banks?
Bankers or politicians or the plebs?
These kind of meetings are to create common vocabulary/seed common frameworks across the world for problems all govts are seeing or expecting on the horizon.
ks2048 47 minutes ago [-]
The founder of Loopt is now ruling the world.
cloche 40 minutes ago [-]
The guy had a failed startup and somehow leveraged that into the situation today.
IncreasePosts 23 minutes ago [-]
I imagine his time at ycombinator as Gríma Wormtongue whispering into theoden's(paulg's) ear
newsclues 6 minutes ago [-]
hope he wear two collared shirts.
bogzz 40 minutes ago [-]
The LARP proceeds unabated.
edoceo 53 minutes ago [-]
If governments regulate AI and make it slow down, does that let one get out of data center contracts?
dgellow 31 minutes ago [-]
If OpenAI voids its spending commitment, the bubble has to pop. I know the market is irrational, but that would be the clearest top signal ever
pluc 45 minutes ago [-]
How's AI doing in Russia with all the sanctions and whatnot?
The AI industry in Russia is not doing well. Domestic AI models exist, but they aren't exactly high performers, and many of them are based on the open weight Chinese models - so there is very little reason to use them. IT power users run Western or Chinese models, often through proxies, VPNs or resellers.
AI is being adopted and used, but if there was ever a chance of Russia being an AI power, it died in 2022.
A few formerly-Russian IT companies had their "rainy day" HQs overseas, and leveraged them to slip the noose and leave Russia - brain draining what AI expertise was available in the country. See: Yandex -> Nebius.
free_bip 40 minutes ago [-]
They have access to all the same open models that the rest of the world does, so just fine I would think.
dgellow 33 minutes ago [-]
They also access American models via proxies. Same as China
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wg0 1 hours ago [-]
The private equity debt time bomb is here. Then there is the bond market.
And then guaranteed bust of AI bubble. 2000 billion dollars for a single company? That too when bottom of the boat has been drilled by open weight Chinese models that are cheaper and good enough but can even be deployed locally?
In face of all that - that kind of return is not realistic.
However - good gimmick scaring UN asking for a ban on Chinese models perhaps.
tracerbulletx 54 minutes ago [-]
The UN is not a body that would be involved in banning models from a specific country, and even if they were China is one of 5 members with permanent veto power.
api 30 minutes ago [-]
Only way to justify those valuation is if they can achieve regulatory capture and outlaw competitors and open models.
Expect the fear mongering to escalate to a fever pitch.
The UN has no authority to ban anything but it's a good platform.
osiris970 18 minutes ago [-]
Are we still pretending models aren't cyber capable, and will be an immense force for hacking? I expected this shit on reddit not here.
You don't have to like Sam, and still not do this bullshit
bogzz 14 minutes ago [-]
The fearmongering is based in the notion that the LessWrong fanfic is coming true as we speak, not LLMs being used as tools for hacking.
ahartmetz 1 hours ago [-]
A great marketing opportunity for Grifty McGriftface.
verdverm 46 minutes ago [-]
A friend him called Uncle Sam Alternative-man, thought it was accurate and clever
jstummbillig 4 minutes ago [-]
HN would be better if it did not produce disparaging comments in every thread that has Sam Altman on it.
I get it. We dislike Sam. I got it 3? 4? years ago. Would probably be more interesting if we could see past that at some point, given that he is a fairly important figure, doing important things, that would be cool to share thoughts about in a more meaningful way.
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He will probably get up there and say his companies products will destroy every citizen of their countries.
This seems especially true for Anthropic employees.
1. https://genius.com/Justin-kuritzkes-potion-seller-annotated
Bankers or politicians or the plebs?
These kind of meetings are to create common vocabulary/seed common frameworks across the world for problems all govts are seeing or expecting on the horizon.
AI is being adopted and used, but if there was ever a chance of Russia being an AI power, it died in 2022.
A few formerly-Russian IT companies had their "rainy day" HQs overseas, and leveraged them to slip the noose and leave Russia - brain draining what AI expertise was available in the country. See: Yandex -> Nebius.
And then guaranteed bust of AI bubble. 2000 billion dollars for a single company? That too when bottom of the boat has been drilled by open weight Chinese models that are cheaper and good enough but can even be deployed locally?
In face of all that - that kind of return is not realistic.
However - good gimmick scaring UN asking for a ban on Chinese models perhaps.
Expect the fear mongering to escalate to a fever pitch.
The UN has no authority to ban anything but it's a good platform.
I get it. We dislike Sam. I got it 3? 4? years ago. Would probably be more interesting if we could see past that at some point, given that he is a fairly important figure, doing important things, that would be cool to share thoughts about in a more meaningful way.