I think the greatest concession made was that von der Leyen allowed Trump to frame this as a great victory for him. He has a fragile ego and always needs to look good. She is a much more diplomatic politician and allowed him to appear victorious. But the actual, realistic concessions are pretty limited.

I thought this was a pretty convincing argument why it's not as bad for Europe as it looks https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sundown-on-the-potemkin-empire-trumps

Hold nu kæft hvor kunne det være fedt mand. Bare gå ind i en bus eller tog når det passer mig. Selv hvis jeg faktisk ikke skal nogen steder hen, haha. Bare frem og tilbage, helt gratis. Det ville jeg sgu gerne give 1% mere i skat for eller hvad det nu kunne koste, helt ærligt.

As someone who was forced to start using Windows again after ten years after ten years of exclusively running Linux: Why is it like this? Everything is so crappy and slow!

What AI revolution? All I get is fancy spellcheck and crappy image generation.

It's hyperbole.

I too could have won it! I just didn't want to. It's too easy, you see?

Do you have any expertise on the issue?

I hold a PhD in probabilistic machine learning and advise businesses on how to use AI effectively for a living so yes.

IMHO, there is simply nothing indicating that it's close. Sure LLMs can do some incredibly clever sounding word-extrapolation, but the current "reasoning models" still don't actually reason. They are just LLMs with some extra steps.

There is lots of information out there on the topic so I'm not going to write a long justification here. Gary Marcus has some good points if you want to learn more about what the skeptics say.

We're not even remotely close. The promise of AGI is part of the AI hype machine and taking it seriously is playing into their hands.

Irrelevant at best, harmful at worst 🤷

Terrific!

Wow. It sounds like something out of PKD's VALIS. Which of my memory serves me right is thought to have been an outlet for the author's paranoid delusions.

ChatGPT is probably one of the most dangerous catalysts to psychosis, and almost completely unchecked at this point.

Gen-AI er endnu ikke profitabelt og forbrugere er typisk ikke villige til at betale for det https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2024/07/19/the-biggest-problem-with-ai-getting-consumers-to-buy-it/

Det miljøsvineri du taler om koster jo faktisk også søgemaskinerne på elregningen. Jeg tror ikke det varer længe før vi ser det bliver erstattet med billigere modeller, f.eks. destillerede modeller, eller helt forsvinde fra steder hvor de i bund og grund er overflødige.

Jeg tror vi er på toppen af hypet og hele historien ender med at ligne dotcom boblen. Men vi får se 🤷

Edit: IMO overhovedet ikke et fjollet emne. Det er super vigtigt!

I know it's part of the AI jargon, but using the word "learning" to describe the slow adaptation of massive arrays of single precision numbers to some loss function, is a very generous interpretation of that word, IMO.

I'm a computer scientist that has a child and I don't think AI is sentient at all. Even before learning a language, children have their own personality and willpower which is something that I don't see in AI.

I left a well paid job in the AI industry because the mental gymnastics required to maintain the illusion was too exhausting. I think most people in the industry are aware at some level that they have to participate in maintaining the hype to secure their own jobs.

The core of your claim is basically that "people who don't think AI is sentient don't really understand sentience". I think that's both reductionist and, frankly, a bit arrogant.