Only individuals like Aaron Swartz are prosecuted criminally. Not a rich and powerful Israeli ally of course.

I literally don’t understand people having kids in this “climate”. That’s how cynical and hopeless I feel about humanity’s future.

I wouldn’t want to inflict that… The heat, the natural disasters, the risk of nuclear wars. The genocides considering multiple were or are active at any point (Palestine, Syria…). The fall of journalism…

Many things I discuss with my friends but nobody could ever dream to fix. So all this shit stays with you. And seeing how our politics are reacting to climate change, this is lost. Because everything else is pointless if you don’t have a place to live.

It is impossible to really block those apps.

This is just for Google to look like they care.

Again you cannot know where text comes from.

You didn’t even read my entire comment…

Read it entirely and you will see that this aggressive tone wasn’t necessary or justified.

What I find surprising in the debate about AI and hallucinations is that everyone points the fact that’s it’s very dangerous and it will spread misinformation… But the problem is the inability or unwillingness to fact check our information.

Nobody wants to fact check something they saw on meta or tik tok. Nobody will. There is no difference between someone trusting some random influencer and someone trusting an AI. They are both set to fail the same way. Both lack critical thinking.

Instead of being afraid of AI and hallucinations we should be investing massively in teaching the newer generations on fact checking and critical thinking.

IA is a great assistant but only if you can fact check it. If you can’t or won’t then it’s a terrible assistant that will set you up to fail.

To be clear, I also struggle to fact check stuff and I definitely was misinformed many times in the past. Nobody is really immune to that problem. IMO IA doesn’t change much about that problem.

If I remember correctly one of the oldest cats ever recorded was drinking a bit of coffee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creme_Puff_(cat)?wprov=sfla1

Although please remember that coffee is toxic to cats.

Playing a bit of a devil’s advocate here but you could argue that AGI used in science could help fix climate change. For example what if AGI helps in fusion energy? We are starting to see AI used in the quantum computing field I think.

Even though much carbon would be created to do bullshit tasks it only takes a few critical techs to have a real edge at reversing climate change. I understand fusion energy is quite the holy grail of energy generation but if AGI is real I can’t see why it wouldn’t help in such field.

I’m just saying that we don’t know what new techs we would get with true AGI. So it’s hard to guess if on a longer time it wouldn’t actually be positive. Now it may also delay even more our response to climate change or worsen it… Just trying to see some hope in this.

I’m a bit out of the loop but if I understand correctly Altman contacted Musk a few years ago to discuss AI. They decided to create OpenAI so there is an open source alternative to Google for AI.

Then Altman saw that there was too much money at stake and decided to just go for profit all the way?

I just wish Mark Rober would have used his incredible knowledge and skill in the space industry for something better than an elaborate CrunchLabs advertisement.

There is plenty of scientific endeavours that could benefit from his expertise.