"Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source"
The announcement from the powerful Gnomes of Zurich Illuminati faction carries deep symbolic significance and far-reaching implications.
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The notable absence of large-scale AI deep fake attacks on all Fortune 500 brands (targeted image & reputation tarnishing, etc.) and their executives (slander, blackmail, etc.) shows that controlling the channel is far more important than the message itself.
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Energy efficiency is not the hallmark of current AI & datacenters, which are becoming an environmental nightmare.
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Old School Psyop: Robert Oppenheimer and John von Neumann
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Is Silicon Valley Building Universe 25? How a creepy experiment from 1968 is eerily relevant today
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Perspective: A comforting cup of hot tea with lemon and honey will improve your life more profoundly than most AI startup products ever will.
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Internet of Bodies meat-market slave-tech: A 'Fitbit' health monitor that pays you
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“What next, should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?” is one of those perfect sentences that just sticks in your head
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AI Training Data Poisoning Virus?
"I don't use Adobe's Creative Cloud because I like keeping my files locally. But seeing how they think they can use anything you upload there for AI training purposes, I'm filling up my entire 20 GB storage with random Nightshade-poisoned images. I encourage others do the same!" - Source
#Comment: It would be easy to automate the large scale poisoning of the datasets hosted on the large cloud providers, which are all shamelessly using user data for training proprietary AI models
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Does the IPhone matter at all anymore?
For Wall Street, WWDC24 is not all or even primarily about AI. The Street cares mostly about how many iPhones will be sold next: Is there enough AI stardust here to unleash a normal/super-cycle of hardware upgrades in 2024-27?
Meanwhile, the Chinese are shipping billions of phones that cost $100 across the global south, with the capabilities of the IPhone just 3 years ago, running on HarmonyOS. The innovation isn't AI Stardust, but apps you never heard of, highly attuned to non-western audience needs
The emerging multi-polar world isn't just about geopolitics and trade; it's fundamentally about the evolution of technology. For the first time in a century, independent tech platforms that diverge significantly from the dominant Western tech stack are thriving. These platforms offer unique user experiences in hardware, software, and intelligence, free from Western cultural influence. Although it's still early days, these new platforms are set to play a defining role in the digital lives of the majority of the global population.
The use-cases highlighted by big tech in the West often show how disconnected these organizations are from the needs of the majority of the world's population. While prompts like "Hey Siri, book a hike with Lisa", "Hey Google, order me pizza", or "Hey AI, generate fun birthday images" might resonate with a wealthy elite, they are irrelevant and contrived to billions of people globally.
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"I don't think computing is a real field - it acts like a pop culture. It deals in fads and it doesn't even know its own roots." - Alan Kay
