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).
This sounds... plausible actually.
They have this big stake in GPU datacenters for AI, that are (and will be) burning incredible amounts of money and are not turning a profit anytime soon.
That same crazy level of investement on AI is making hardware costs go up, especially gaming hardware.
But Microsoft, being the benefactors who have inherited the company from philantropist and kids-lover Bill Gates, have thought of us! They will share a bit of their shiny GPU datacenters' plwer for gaming and all they will be asking for is a lot of your money.
I can see that.
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?
I'm a new windows emigrant, so I don't have that muscle memory.... so I am getting used more easily to using fish's ALT+S to sudo the previous command.
That's how ship cannons worked too, at the time. Powerful but heavy to move, slow to reload, not very accurate.... having more of them was the only way to have sustained firepower.
But Leonardo also left a lot of these sketches that look less like actual projects and more like the superhero fantasies of an extremely gifted six years old. "And look, this shit has cannons... Cannons EVERYWHERE! Bam! Kapow!". I guess it's what happens when you're so great at drawing that even the doodles you do when bored look like masterpieces.
there IS a very simple explanation, but it doesn't help sell.... "how can we have our customers share the massive costs of all the computing power AI needs, while at the same time keeping access to all their yummy private data?"
I meant tokens as the units of text you pay for when you purchase a subscription to ChatGPT or one of the other AI models.
Most AI companies offer you limited access for free to their most powerful models but you have to pay if you "speak too long" with the AI and exceed your quota of tokens.
All those new data centers (like the one the arrested man was opposing) are meant to power these AI. companies. Not a great joke, but that's what I was alluding to.
Yes, I've read. I hope it's one those "Al Capone arrested for Tax Evasion" things where they just went for the one that was easier to prove. I know very little about UK law, but I doubt he would have been arrested on those charges if he hadn't been already disgraced.
But my joke was more on other rich, white, alleged pedophiles with ties to Epstein and the weird fact that people keep bringing those things up when the DOW is over 50000
I can't believe Trump would allow this! What a waste of perfectly good underage women