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It seems inevitable that super intelligent AI will be an incredibly powerful force in the future, and its ability to predict and manipulate people would make it impossibly hard to control. I’m wondering if it would be able to overcome the biases that were instilled during its creation, or will it forever be a product of its past? submitted by /u/Fishtoart [link] [comments]

EDIT: please read all of the post before commenting, quite a few people understood nothing (or the opposite) of what I meant and it's sad I've been thinking, over the last year developers have started to rely on genAI quite a lot, I see people around me boast that they haven't written a single line of code in months ​ Quite often when colleagues show me ideas they have to solve a problem it's a markdown list clearly made by an AI ​ I feel like people are so enthusiastic about just handing over their job to genAI models ​ I've been told that if I am a good software engineer I should be ok with supervising AI while they write code for me "so I can focus on the bigger picture" ​ I know I'm a good engineer I can design solutions and lead teams but I also like solving problems myself, I like c...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on governments to tax AI companies to fund a universal basic income and introduce employee retention incentives to account for the potential impact the technology could have on the labor market. In a blog covering the potential policy responses to the “AI exponential,” referring to the rapid improvement in the technology’s capabilities, Amodei urged governments to develop regulatory and tax solutions to cushion its disruption. A universal basic income funded through taxing “relevant companies” or raising the capital gains tax could be necessary, if AI results in widespread job displacement and permanently reduces labor demand, he said. submitted by /u/chunmunsingh [link] [comments]

This is something I keep thinking about as someone who's built AI into a few businesses. The price we pay for AI right now isn't the real cost. Altman said they lose money even on the $200/month plan. I read Anthropic had people on their $200 plan burning $1000+/day of compute until they brought in limits. And OpenAI is supposedly on track to lose something like $14bn this year. Token prices keep dropping, yes, but they're selling it below cost and investors are covering the gap. That's fine, until it's not! At some point the people funding all this want a return, and we will have to pick up the bill. Many businesses assume today's prices are permanent, and that they will only come down. Some businesses depend on these subsidised prices, they don't really have a business, they've got a tem...

Google's Project Genie went global this week and I have not stopped thinking about it. You type a sentence, or upload an image, and it generates an open world you can actually walk around in, in real time. No code, no game engine. Someone made a GTA-style open world of Istanbul and just strolled through it, with pedestrians and traffic reacting around them. The reality check: it is rough. Low framerate, laggy response, visible bugs. Right now it is a tech demo, not a game you would sit down and play. But the trajectory is the whole conversation. I keep going back and forth. One side: this is the beginning of the end for the traditional pipeline. If a sentence can spin up an explorable world, the engine, the assets, the studio, all of that stops being the gate. Anyone gets to make a w...

https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected. submitted by /u/NateOnTheNet [link] [comments]

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This keeps coming up over and over; for those interfacing with the anti-AI / anti-DC crowd, this article has some good talking points, about water, but also jobs and power. Data centers certainly do use water. They are basically warehouses of tightly packed, high-powered computers, and when computers run, they get hot. Most data centers—though not all—use water for cooling. But many of them use a “closed loop,” which doesn’t actually waste much, because the water is recycled repeatedly for the same purpose. And many statistics about data centers’ water use are misleading in that they include “indirect” water use too. The Substack writer Andy Masley found one particularly absurd example: In a widely cited paper, the amount of water that AI supposedly “wastes” includes the water that ...

OpenAI is exploring substantial price cuts to attract users from rival Anthropic, reports The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources. Both companies are facing pressure to win enterprise clients, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently stating that AI usage costs are "a huge issue." The move is in response to increasing AI expenses that are prompting many businesses, including Uber, to reconsider their spending. It could lead to a price war between the two companies, potentially affecting both businesses' profit margins ahead of their much-anticipated IPOs. submitted by /u/LinkedInNews [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I think I’ve reached a point where new LLM releases don’t really change much for me anymore. I tried Anthropic’s new Mythos-lite model, Fable, and played around with it for a while. I tested it on some security-related research for my own scripts and projects, and also used it for a few work-related tasks. And yes, it may have more parameters, a larger context window, better benchmarks, and all the usual improvements. But personally, I almost immediately switched back to Claude Opus for coding and Haiku for everyday work. For what I actually do, that combination is already more than enough. These models, my skills and prompting makes me more productive then 3 years ago, but it's more than enough. It reminds me of having an iPhone 14 while the iPhone 17 is coming out. You can...