2023-05-31
seems weird AI guys keep arguing the thing they're building is going to kill us all. then you realize musk and the early entrants are using fear to a) hype their job destroying project to other capitalists b) urge the gov to give them a natural monopoly https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders...
2023-05-30
seems weird AI guys keep arguing the thing they're building is going to kill us all. then you realize musk and the early entrants are using fear to a) hype their job destroying project to other capitalists b) urge the gov to give them a natural monopoly https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
OpenAI and DeepMind execs, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others release a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
Leaders from OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.
2021-06-29
what can account for such a valuation on an advertising platform except a dearth of arenas for productive investment in value creation? (for reference, the value of ALL global steel production last year was $290 billion!)
CNBC
On Monday, Facebook's stock rose 4.2%, closing at $355.64, giving Facebook a $1T market cap for the first time, the fifth US company to hit the milestone
The irony: The milestone was achieved following a federal judge's dismissal of an antitrust complaint from the FTC, which sent shares up. https://www.axios.com/... Caleb Watney / @...
what can account for such a valuation on an advertising platform except a dearth of arenas for productive investment in value creation? (for reference, the value of ALL global steel production last year was $290 billion!)
CNBC
US district court dismisses FTC's antitrust complaint against Facebook, saying its definition of market dominance was insufficient, but will let FTC refile it
- A federal court on Monday dismissed the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust complaint against Facebook.