Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “the woke left and the woke right”, patriotism, Russia's Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more
Palantir's CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him? X: @stevenlevy , @shannonrwatts , and @spencerhakimian . Bluesky: @katie-drummond ...
Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots
it's that Silicon Valley's view of freedom was always aligned with libertarianism, not progressivism. Levy suggests that Trump's “values violently clashed with the egalitarian impulses of the digital ...
Sources on the key Microsoft-OpenAI clause: OpenAI decides when it has reached AGI, “sufficient AGI” means $100B+ in profits, and Microsoft may not build AGI
Questions like “what biases are in the training data” and “can I keep my data out of the LLM” are critical to corporations and people! [embedded post] @breadbunny : openAi believers making a contract ...
Anthropic researchers share the surprises they observed while watching Claude think: planning ahead, confusion between safety and helpfulness goals, lying, more
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After Sam Altman and others called for AI regulation, some executives including Box CEO Aaron Levie say the US should not rush like the EU did
Tech Leaders Once Cried for AI Regulation. Now the Message Is ‘Slow Down’ — https://www.wired.com/... X: Aaron Levie / @levie : One of the most common concerns about AI is the risk that it takes a ...
After Sam Altman and others called for AI regulation, some executives including Box CEO Aaron Levie say the US should not rush like the EU did
Tech Leaders Once Cried for AI Regulation. Now the Message Is ‘Slow Down’ — https://www.wired.com/... X: Aaron Levie / @levie : One of the most common concerns about AI is the risk that it takes a ...
A defense of AI hallucinations, which can spur creativity and, by requiring fact-checks, act as a firewall in the transition to coexist with superintelligent AI
It's a big problem when chatbots spew untruths. But we should also celebrate these hallucinations as prompts for human creativity and a barrier to machines taking over. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to...
An interview with Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on open source AI, why AI danger is overhyped, whether AI could produce artistic work that has soul, more
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Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse
The increasingly popular social media app is allowing conspiracy theories … Darragh Murphy / Laptop Mag : What is Clubhouse and why is Facebook cloning the voice chat app? The Economic Times : ETtech ...
The latest congressional hearing was another parade of bad-faith arguments about Section 230, best illustrated by Senate Republicans mischaracterizing the law
@GiladEdelman https://www.wired.com/... John Kennedy / @senjohnkennedy : If Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg don't employ staff to block them from reading certain material, why don't they let their use...