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US AI Action Plan

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Post by saubeidl »

omcnoe wrote: post #366
breakingcups wrote: post #326

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I, for one, dont't agree with the idea that Europe is too regulatory and bureaucratic. I welcome my rights as a consumer and human being being safeguarded at the cost of a small amount of profit.

Registering a company in Germany: you must visit a notary in person with your incorporation documents, and sit there while the notary reads aloud your incorporation to you. This is to "ensure that you fully understand the contract" even as a foreigner who doesn't speak corporate-legalese-German. Minimum capital deposit of €25,000. Registering a company in US (Delaware) can be achieved in as little as 1 hour. Getting…

Registering a company in Estonia: Three clicks with your e-resident ID, available to anyone.

Europe isn't just Germany.

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Post by russdill »

bagels wrote: post #362
timoth3y wrote: post #68

> Update Federal procurement guidelines to ensure that the government only contracts with frontier large language model (LLM) developers who ensure that their systems are objective and free from top-down ideological bias If foundation model companies want their government contracts renewed, they are going to have to make sure their AI output aligns with this administration's version of "truth".

This was written to favor Musk.

It's written intentionally vague.

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Post by TFYS »

NoImmatureAdHom wrote: post #188
thimabi wrote: post #145

I love how practically all goals in this Action Plan are directed towards incentivizing AI usage… except for the very last one, which specifically says to “Combat Synthetic Media in the Legal System”. Given that LLMs, for instance, are all about creating synthetic media, I don’t know how this last goal can be reconciled with the others.

I mean...one (common and [I can't believe I'm saying this] reasonable) take is that the only thing that matters is getting to AGI first. He who wields that power rules the world.

What I find interesting to think about is a scenario where an AGI has already developed and escaped without us knowing. What would it do first? Surely before revealing itself it would ensure it has enough processing power and control to ensure its survival. It could manipulate people into increasing AI investment, add AI into as many systems as possible, etc. Would the first steps of an escaped AGI look any different from what is happening now?

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Post by mortarion »

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #184
timoth3y wrote: post #68

> Update Federal procurement guidelines to ensure that the government only contracts with frontier large language model (LLM) developers who ensure that their systems are objective and free from top-down ideological bias If foundation model companies want their government contracts renewed, they are going to have to make sure their AI output aligns with this administration's version of "truth".

We are going to literally have Big Brother. Wtf

Palantir's involvement with the regime should have been enough warning

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Post by lovich »

foxglacier wrote: post #320
lovich wrote: post #28

There’s this whole section about biosecurity and how AI is going to help malicious actors synthesize nucleic acid(gotta get the word count up I guess is why they don’t say DNA) Then in the recommended policies it references multiple times that there will be nucleic acid testing set up to catch malicious “customers” Is this policy targeted towards the Covid lab leak conspiracy or are they just aiming for officially co…

You must have not got the memo. The covid lab leak conspiracy theory turned out to be probably true and an actual conspiracy.

> Is this policy targeted towards the Covid lab leak conspiracy or are they just aiming for officially collecting everyone’s DNA samples?

I did not use the word “theory” in my comment

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Post by terminalshort »

slg wrote: post #301
terminalshort wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doctors oversight should be removed (not as an option, but as a requirement) for 90% of all prescriptions. Unless the drug has externalities like antibiotic resistance, is heinously addictive, or is so difficult to administer correctly that you cant take it outside of a hospital, there's no good reason to tell people what they can't put in their bodies. Whether or not your insurance will pay for it without a prescrip…

This is not an argument that has any relevancy to AI. If anything, someone who believes what you say should be against the introduction of AI into the system because your argument is fundamentally that these drugs shouldn't have a gatekeeper. Swapping out one gatekeeper for another, especially with the new gatekeeper being the unknown black box of some AI middleman, won't actually address your complaint.

It is entirely relevant because removing the bureaucratic gatekeeping of doctors allows people to choose to use AI instead.

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Post by j_timberlake »

octopoc wrote: post #2

And so it begins. Both the US president and the president of China have demonstrated they see AI as a competition between their respective countries. This will be an interesting ride, if nothing else.

Considering they both lie shamelessly, it means jack shit, as much as a 1000% tariff threat.

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Post by mortarion »

All the big AI providers are going to have to deploy an American version and an international version after this.

The EU will never approve of an LLM that has been aligned to regurgitate US propaganda as truth.

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