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🤖🤖🤖🤖 NEW AI THREAD 🧠🧠🧠🧠

Guess it's time to collect some #ai sources that I notice on my daily digital endeavours. 🤓

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Let's start with this #interview that #GeoffreyHinton gave #CBS just lately. I find that #kindergarden allegory quite fascinating - #humans would be the kids that won't understand what's going on while the digital adults pull the strings.

Given the state of the world, I'm not sure if that has to be a bad thing.

youtu.be/qyH3NxFz3Aw?si=b9z5IM

"#AIbasedcapitalism, if it is to maintain its political legitimacy, may well have to be accompanied by very #high levels of #taxation on #capital, which would, in effect, socialize the financial returns that the #AImodels generate. Perhaps this was what the A.I. pioneer #GeoffreyHinton was getting at during a recent interview when, on being asked about the economic policies needed to make A.I. work for everybody, he gave a one-word answer: #Socialism.”

newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04

The New Yorker · How to Survive the A.I. RevolutionBy John Cassidy

I encountered Google Gemini on my Android phone, last night. It had a voice and was selling it's new voice activated service. The problem is, I no longer trust Google nor Gemini to be an honest broker. I use other AIs like #DeepSeek, #Mistral, and #Cohere because they will answer. Gemini refuses to answer political questions or do political analysis. So, in my polite voice I say #FuckOffAndDieSundarPichai. #GeoffreyHinton left #Google. And now we know why.

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Update. "Elon #Musk’s fellowship of the #RoyalSociety remains intact after a meeting of the scientific body, the Guardian has learned, but questions remain about whether further action will be taken…Earlier on Monday, the Nobel laureate and AI pioneer #GeoffreyHinton – a fellow of the Royal Society – posted on X that he supported Musk’s removal. “I think Elon Musk should be expelled from the British Royal Society. Not because he peddles conspiracy theories and makes Nazi salutes, but because of the huge damage he is doing to scientific institutions in the US."