The hidden mechanism behind AI regulations:

1. Claim that AI can do everything .
2. Raise tons of money from investors.
3. Tell governments that AI is very dangerous and that open source AI should be regulated out of existence.
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4. Profits!

Yesterday I filed comments in the FTC's Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Impersonation fraud.

TL;DR: the FTC wants to use this to regulate AI companies and developers.

This is an extension of a proceeding that has been ongoing since December 2021. Impersonation…

If you actually want to regulate AI, first you need to have a clear, grounded, practical understanding of AI.

Then you need to understand the limits of what legislation can and can't do.

What legislation can't do is guarantee that something is always safe or we wouldn't have…

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'We can say right now, with a high degree of scientific certainty, GPT-5 is going to be a lot smarter than GPT-4 and GPT-6 will be a lot smarter than GPT-5, we are not near the top of this curve' – Sam Altman

Socialist professor explains how to get a PS5 under socialism.

Yeah, no thanks.

Here's an edit of Elon Musk's recent talk at SpaceX.

This version boosts audio quality and removes pauses & dead space, saving time by 40%.

Thank you David Carbutt for the work!

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

SpaceX aiming for 3 launches today! One Eutelsat, which just reached orbit, and 2 Starlink missions.

My column this week explores how language and culture have historically played under-rated roles in human progress, and what that means for our present and future ft.com/content/e57741…

But let’s get into the details:

The best data scientists are experts at getting LLMs to do their bidding

For example, the Abacus AI co-pilot will do data wrangling, EDA, algorithm exploration and build a production ready model in hours based on your prompts!

Data science is now largely a thinking…

Two comparisons of data analysts to Code Interpreter:

'Experimental results show that GPT-4 can achieve comparable performance to humans' arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15038…

GPT-4 scores over 90% on exams, the data science field is “on the verge of a paradigm shift” arxiv.org/pdf/2307.02792…

“NHS AI test spots tiny cancers missed by doctors.”

AI saves lives.

bbc.com/news/technolog…

AI can show you things that you have never seen before. What’s your favorite humanimal?

Hard tech is at fever pitch. The last few years have been pivotal for the space, and this past week was exceptionally inspiring. I wrote a rallying battle manifesto on exascaling the American industrial base. piratewires.com/p/techno-indus…

Ian Brooke (Ian Brooke) is the founder of Astro Mechanica, a YC-backed startup building the world's first electric-adaptive jet engine.

It’s a new way to fly fast — and might soon be the least expensive way to get a payload to orbit.

I'm done with Google. I know many good individuals working there, but as a company they've irrevocably lost my trust. I'm 'moving out'. Here's why:

I've been reading Google's Gemini damage control posts. I think they're simply not telling the truth. For one, their text-only…

The danger of the incipient repressive AI oligopoly, enabled and supported by government regulatory capture, should be clear now.

What is to be done about it?

Apocalypse addicts profit from people's natural tendency to see society as forever on the brink of total disaster, despite hundreds of years of evidence to the contrary.

You don't get front page journalism from saving puppies and beating cancer. You get it from war, disaster,…

The Ian Mactaggart Programme is a new funding scheme administered by the FSU that helps young people promote #freespeech . If you're a new or existing student society, or individual looking to find funding for free speech-related activities, we can help.

freespeechunion.org/grants/