> Looks like Sam Altman regrets making ChatGPT available to the Pentagon. And he should, Dave Lee says
(«Dave Lee is Bloomberg Opinion's US technology columnist. He was previously a correspondent for the Financial Times and BBC News»)
Transcript:
> Sam Altman admitted his company looked sloppy and opportunistic when it agreed in something of a hurry to make chat GPT available on the Pentagonʼs classified networks. Hereʼs why I agree with him. It was sloppy and why I think heʼs made a significant mistake.
> You may have heard that Anthropic, the creator of Claude, has fallen out of the Department of Defense over the use of AI for surveillance and autonomous killing. Late last week, Sam Altman swooped in and made an agreement to replace Claude. Altman said he had secured protections against unethical use, but many thought heʼd been naive in making that deal, especially since heʼd made it so quickly, capitalizing on the chance to steal some business from a rival. But now itʼs backfiring. Since his announcement to work with the military, downloads of Chat GPT have fallen. While installs of the Claude app have surged by more than 200%, bringing it to the top of the app store charts after being outside the top 100 as recently as January. Chat GPT users on social media are angry with Altman over what they see as a capitulation to the Trump administration. Dario Amodei, the co-founder of Anthropic, has shown principle at a time when so few tech CEOs seem prepared to do so. However, if the Pentagon sees through its threat to ban any American company with a military contract from doing business with Anthropic, that could destroy their business. Anthropic has said it plans to fight that order in court, and legal observers believe they will probably prevail. Therefore, Sam Altmanʼs hasty moves might ultimately work in Anthropicʼs favor, gifting them millions more users and the kind of PR that money canʼt buy. The OpenAI CEO said he would treat the past few days as a learning experience.
I submit this after seeing a dead submission in the "news" which (implicitly) promotes this seemingly very good resource, earabiclearning.com - I cannot seem to effectively vouch for it. (Probably the submitter was a bit "overfocused".)
The matter of "which Arabic to learn" is very relevant as soon as the beginner realizes that the form one is learning may not be that one wished to speak or read in Egypt or in Dubai, or find in a news outlet etc.
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> the beginner [learner of the Arabic language]
and this seems to be a very precious page to break the ice... The basics in a single page!
Incidentally, I won't be able to follow the discussion in this submission or others, until health will allow (not soon) - I am in a protracted forced break.
I'll still be able to submit if any worthy piece of news will enter the radar.
> If change is the only constant in nature, it is written in the language of geometry. // Much of my work celebrates the patterns underlying space and growth. Through kinetic sculptures and transformable objects, I strive to give viewers access to the surprising structures hidden within apparently amorphous space
Those with organs for judgement are found as liabilities when said judgement structure is faulty and they can be responsible for damage.
Those which are structurally whimsical - well, if you had to deal them as liabilities, then you would have to do it preemptively (it may not be that it's Chimpy that is so brutal - they just can be brutal).
Yes, it's the typical behaviour of "those who saw the Master" (which they may have forgotten "came to see the sick") - a pretty well known tendency in humanoids.
> I was born loving animals - all kinds of animals - and she was just so supportive. To give you one example: when I was four-and-a-half years old, she took me for a holiday onto a farm in the country - a proper farm, not these terrible factory farms that we have today. So I met, for the first time, cows and pigs out in the fields, and I was given a job to collect the hens’ eggs. The hens pecked around in the farmyard, but at night they slept in these little wooden hen-houses to keep them safe from foxes. My job was to go and collect the eggs. I’d go around these little hen-houses, and if there was an egg I would put it in my basket.
> But I kept asking people, “But where does the egg come out of the hen, because I can’t see a hole that big?” And nobody told me. So one day - I remember this really well - I saw a hen (she was brown) going into one of these hen-houses, and I must have thought, “Ah, she’s going to lay an egg”. So I crawled after her. Big mistake! Squawks of fear - she flew out. But now I’m on the path of discovery: I’m going to jolly well find out how this egg comes out. So I waited in an empty hen-house, and I waited for four hours. For a child of four - some of you are parents - that’s a lot of patience. My mother was about to call the police; nobody knew where I was. And then she sees this excited little girl rushing towards the house, because I had seen how a hen lays an egg and where the egg comes out. I don’t know who was more excited - me or the hen. Anyway, so she sat down to hear this wonderful story of how a hen lays an egg.
> I tell that story because isn’t that the making of a little scientist? Curiosity, asking questions, not getting the right answer, deciding to find out for yourself, making a mistake, not giving up, and learning patience - it was all there.
But questions will be raised now, and they will be raised again later, since the absurdity of the sentencing will resound in jurisprudence for years to come.
This will probably and hopefully not be forgotten: the question will remain for later.
(Or can anybody find something more?)
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