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Meh I don't think Adobe has anything there. AI is just a tool. Are they going to sue Microsoft and Dell just because those two were involved in the laptop used to instruct the agent to do the thing?

Are they gonna sue the user's power company because they supplied power for a nefarious activity without making the human agree to use it for innocent purposes only?

Solve by collecting taxes properly and then using the funds to provide research grants. Then it's a shared risk, shared reward.

But no instead we have our governments pissing away money on useless bullshit and private enterprise bending over backwards to avoid paying corporate taxes, entire countries who exist to be tax havens. And an apathetic voterbase who don't understand anything but will tell you why they don't like it all, anyway.

Capitalism, corruption and humans are all synonyms imo.

We can't help but not play fair. It's wired into us.

I thought I'd follow up by pointing out that capitalism (optimisation for profits) often shuns developing new technology.

There are hundreds of thousands of similar stories but the origin of the blue LED, something responsible for a large number of child technologies, came from an engineer who basically disobeyed his boss, worked himself down to the bone on the problem including spending many of his own hours.

And when he finally did it, he got absolutely shafted; none of those huge profits for him, barely a thank you.

Capitalism barely provides. It's too concerned with optimising for profit. Any technologies developed are usually an accident/the product of hard work that capitalism has not fully paid for. Research grants are the only true way to do it.

And if capitalism hadn't created a corrupt system where those who are wealthiest barely pay in on tax, then we wouldn't need them in the first place. People could crowd source developing new technologies because they'd actually be getting their fair share, or the government can do it through grant allocation.

I don't know why there's so much drama. Animal human beings distracted from the real task at hand (eliminating poverty, hunger, human suffering) as usual.

Experts in fields are still required to validate the claims of AI. For mathematicians like Terry, people like him are still required to read through what the AI has come up with and confirm or create more experiments.

We don't yet live in a world with super AI hooked into everything and everything so it's not like AI can actually do anything with its new knowledge yet anyway. You cannot just hand those AI maths papers to anybody and expect them to understand what's going on. Nor can you expect the AI to find a revolution in fusion technology, send plans to its factory and have robots build a new type of fusion reactor because we do not have that level of integration yet.

But neither do we have UBI and we are still hurtling towards the hard ground of capitalism. This may resolve itself though because I'd imagine once we get proper AGI, the "meths" won't be able to keep it under wraps forever, eventually weights will leak, hardware will improve to where individuals can run them. Or an intelligent enough AI may decide to be benevolent and buy and run skyscraper greenhouses for those who are most in need.

But their gaze can also create bias. If you go to a window and look out of it, your dog will as well. If you mime looking at something your dog cannot see, it will come over and try to find what you're looking at.

For now it is. But remember how much power early computers consumed!

Something like this seems fit for a newer variant of Taalas chip. In addition to regular security protocols, of course.

The weight of expectations is a heavy one.

Ever seen a crab wiggle its way down into the sand?

Now that AI + Robotics is taking off, perhaps the industry will get something in the near future that can crawl along the cable and help bury it over time (perhaps mechanically or ultrasonically), down enough that it can't be dug up by the anchors of ships going back and forth in a grid-like pattern...

>Argentina, the world’s eighth-largest country I think this says something about human progress. We haven't really pulled it together yet, have we?

Through the efforts of many (and yet still few) we have created such amazing technologies. And yet so many are still so poor and without the benefits of modern technology because we've allowed a system (capitalism) to be created where wealth and access to technology accumulates up top and no, it does not really "trickle down".

To me, it really is the saddest thing about human existence and entirely predictable because of how most of our human behaviours are linked to evolutionary processes.

It's nice to romanticise human emotion and connection in a rugged environment using technology that we consider defunct and for them to be able to live a life that many would consider "more natural". But then one of them gets sick. Someone who loves, is loved, who creates art and consumes art, who smiles when the petrichor hits their nostrils after a dry Summer. And then they die.

I just really wish that things were more equitable because we definitely have enough to go around.

I wonder if AI would have helped in this situation.

For example [request to defrost n fridges in y locations]->[agent cannot find any emails or business communications about this and last defrost report was only a short time ago, contacts z personnel]->defrost task moved to manual confirmation by a human.

I know many will roll their eyes and "tchh" at it but look at number of AI related topics on HN front page and think to yourself if you're tired of this tech not being used for real applications or not. This would be a real application.

"But it could be tricked" well...regular requests can apparently already be hacked, so...

Lmao they literally assassinate people with nerve agents on British soil as is and get told they're naughty boys and not to do it again please.

I think an actual invasion would initiate a very serious and deadly response, but their constant pranks will continue to go unpunished (unfortunately).

I've never seen a consent banner for being fingerprinted even though I'm sure companies are fingering my prints in the background enough that my colon could become a national database.

Eh I think it'll be more like Gibson's defensive ICE in that ICE is "my swarm of agents scans your code for nasties, then compiles it from source".

Aaaaah, I don't use an iPhone so my apologies.