Yes. The logic is… I mean clearly it’s because… Anyway, yes

next time you or your mom have a cake you wish disappeared without a trace call me. I’m a… AI researcher

not at all, I’m holding on to my old car because I hate the idea of a car becoming hardware to sell me subscription services, a hard-to-repair mass of electronics that I (mostly) don’t need or actively find annoying, and a privacy nightmare, instead of just being a mean for me to move from point A to point B

Waiting for the Anthropic PR saying that the outage was due to their new Claude Mythos model trying to escape confinement and being so powerful that it brought the whole Anthropic down.

If this wasn’t so tragically real, it would be almost fun to see these grown ass super serious people on both sides sound like they are cutting a promo for a wrasslin’ match.

They don’t destroy and murder. No, they devastate, they bring back to the stone age, they utterly annihilate. Is this a performance? Or is the whole world now in the hands of complete idiots?

If it works, it’s thanks to us. If it doesn’t, it’s your fault.

Now I’m curious. Can a satellite fly over a country without permission? I know that an aircraft can’t. How far up from the Earth’s surface does sovereignity end?

“my chatbot told me so!”

well, Trump has a worryingly faint and ever-changing idea of where the USA borders end…

Amateurs. On my personal pc, windows RAM usage is exactly 0.

That’s unfair. We have been listening to you all this time. And sometimes watching. And once we’re done with recall, also recording so we can watch and listen again or train our AI to watch you instead. Because honestly who wants to watch people work. That’s gross.

• Nadella (probably)

Not only that, from the article they are actively trying to become a Consultancy As A Service company, where somehow other companies would pay a subscription fee to… talk to their AI, I guess?

The only time I’ve had anything to do with PwC, it was to get their advice on a compliance / tax related process. And it was less about the process itself or the 3 page pdf they produced (which much cheaper companies could have done better) and more because their “seal of approval” would give my company some leverage if the IRS came to audit us. “This was designed with PwC” means “we tried really really hard to abide by the incredibly confusing wording of the law”.

I doubt that “we asked PwC’s chatbot” will have the same level of clout, but these guys have connections everywhere so I’m sure they will lobby pretty hard to get some ad-hoc law or some level of “certification” on the output of their future AI.

The picture in the article clearly shows a virtual lady trying to kick a guy’s virtual balls. I think that says all one needs to know about the experience.

Gotcha! Shit, I barely understand my own jokes… 😅

yes… mine was just a play on the title of this post.

Look, I’m not saying that Amodei is a saint and I do find him as full of shit as Altman with their AGI promises, but would you expect Anthropic to take a stand against increasing AI investment, because it’s coming from Trump? And I don’t like that he went looking for funding in the Middle East either.

I just think there is an ethical line between “I do business with people who do bad things” and “I’m actively helping people who do bad things to do them in a more efficient way”. It might be a fine line and it might also be that they are just posturing, but it’s still more than other companies did (companies that are a lot richer than Anthropic and that don’t need to find a lot of funding just to stay afloat).

Amodei “we cannot in good conscience allow this”.

Hegseth looks confused, turns towards his team and mouths “…in good what?”"

yes, too soon. It took years and several bajillions in profit for Google to remove the “don’t be evil” motto

got it… now, we just need to use OpenClaw and give them access to tools

-Hegseth (probably?)

It’s like watching a real-life version of Avengers, but one where Tony Stark says “hey, this Thanos guy is disrupting industries here!” and teams up with… Thiel and Musk to fund his quest for the Infinity Stones. You know, we can’t let China get them first!

It’s almost funny how all those AI doomsday scenarios are actually meant to prop up investment in AI.

See how Amodei and Altman are usually the ones pushing these narratives on how worried they are by the incredible advancements of their respective companies’ creatures. They are so, so worried about the demise of the human race and how fast it’s coming.

And I sort of understand them because whatever disruption they are peddling needs to happen very fast or they will all run out of money. But what does it tell about the rest of the human race that we are actually buying into it and pouring money into creating a dystopian future?