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Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Anyone who unironically says that they are going to improve/police/redefine ethics should be considered immediately suspect. It's a massive red flag if someone is thinking that their ethics are better than other's. Bonus red flag points if that comes from a corporation. It is also very telling that a corporation called literally "human-first" is developing a tool to displace said humans completely. Now it is possible…

Ai will overtake all human capabilities on the right timescale. (We just don't know whether that's an order of years, decades, or centuries). It... doesn't make sense that an entire human couldn't be perfectly artificially replicated eventually (and then, obviously, surpassed immediately), unless you believe in a non-physical soul which powers some aspect of our conscious thought. Even if you believe in such a soul,…

My point was not about potential future AI (and not about current NNs). My point was that Anthropic MARKETING team CLAIMS that it is aiming for the AI which would love humans, and it is a commendable effort. But I think, that just like any other corporation in the history, Anthropic cares only about the unrestricted growth and quarterly revenue/profit values. And any "ethics" bs they throw around is a marketing gimmick, designed to improve their image despite them creating a human job replacements right now, right here. That's both due to the direct job replacements, and also by crapping all around older industries, ignoring copyright laws and stealing private IP just because law don't specify NNs directly.

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> Google Cloud boosted its operating profits to $395 million for the second quarter From https://www.geekwire.com/2023/google-cloud-posts-second-stra... Yes, Google has killed a lot of products... but none of those ever came anywhere close to turning such a profit!

Google includes the income from paid Gmail accounts in their cloud revenue. From all accounts, that is all of the profit and in fact it generates more profit that offsets the cloud losses.

Do you have any evidence for this? Seems like a pretty severe accusation.

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>A more logical solution might be to not run society on bullshit And this is why you're poor. In fact, depending on your definition of bullshit, if you did not run society on bullshit there wouldn't be billionaires at all. Once you reach the level of technology that can provide for everyone, what need is there to make more? >The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the wo…

> Once you reach the level of technology that can provide for everyone, what need is there to make more? Because you can never reach that outcome no matter what your technology is. Your premise is so vague as to be useless. Provide what for everyone? How much for everyone? Who decides how much for everyone? Based on what? Elected by whom? If you actually dig into any of that what you'll find is that it's impossible.…

What are you even talking about, of course it can. If humanoid robots become a viable means of production, a lot of human labor could be replaced. You continue to use the current economic system to allocate.

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Everyone has already moved to the much superior Alex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_Tt0En7v4

I hope the downvote you received for this comment did not leave you ... emotionally damaged.

Five PM reminder to myself - I'm still a disappointment :)

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I’m in US, waiting 5 mos

In the US, I got access almost immediately when I signed up in June.

Crazy. I don’t know what they gain by super slow rollouts like this. It puts them at a serious disadvantage while ChatGPT gets entrenched in people’s daily workflows and the perception grows that it’s the best.

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"in a year or two".

Google hires 17 year olds?

I've seen 18 years old full times (some that never went to college). I wouldn't be surprised to see a 17 year old intern or full time if they graduated college early.

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For those who don’t know, Anthropic has an interesting list of investors: - Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO/Chairman), Series A - Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX), lead investor in Series B - Caroline Ellison (FTX), Series B - Google, Series C https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic/company_fi... ——— Question: why isn’t Anthropic using Google Cloud, given who their past investors include?

Google VC doesn't push Google products in an effort of remaining neutral and getting access to the best deals. It's a strategic mis-step for Google the company, but a win for Google the VC arm. Also shows Google's internal dis-organization.

Or it shows that they don't want to abuse their position?
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