2024-11-04
Suggestion: Before letting AI companies feed their hungry beasts with increasingly high-in-demand energy sources, they should have to put together a robust business-plan type proposal to show the realistic benefits of their excessive energy expenditure. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: Meta's plans to build a US nuclear-powered AI data center were thwarted in part after a rare bee species was found on land earmarked for the project
Mark Zuckerberg is continuing to explore energy deals amid a Big Tech arms race over artificial intelligence
2024-09-29
Christ! (Pun intended) ... this is one hot mess of an interview. Every week military technology companies & their VCs get extraordinary airtime and exposure. Why? https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and Executive Chairman of Anduril, on autonomous AI's role in warfare, building a wearable e-reader, and more
Steven Levy / Wired : X: @elkeschwarz , @knibbs , @samuelclay , and @matthewboedy X: Prof. Elke Schwarz / @elkeschwarz : Christ! (Pun intended) ... this is one hot mess of an inte...
2024-03-02
I remember distinctly in 2019 when I was dismissed by a US think tanker for suggesting that Project Maven would be used for precisely this kind of accelerated targeting. This speed with which goal post change should concern us all (1/4) https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
A look at Project Maven, the US DOD's flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data
On a summer evening in 2020 at Fort Liberty, a sprawling US Army installation in North Carolina, soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps pored …
2023-08-14
This by @GaryMarcus is on point: “But what has me worried right now is [...] that we are building our entire global and national policy on the premise that generative AI will be world-changing in ways that may in hindsight turn out to have been unrealistic https://open.substack.com/...
The Road to AI We Can Trust
Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn't build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic
With the possible exception of the quick to rise and quick to fall alleged room-temperature superconductor LK-99 … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to , @peter@thepit.social , and @bald...