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speak easy's JournalTypical EU: Lots of restrictions on AI except Governments can use it
any way that they like. Are you listening PM Orban?
EU agrees ‘historic’ deal with world’s first laws to regulate AI
But there were also a protracted negotiations over AI-driven surveillance, which could be used by the police, employers or retailers to film members of the public in real time and recognise emotional stress.
The European Parliament secured a ban on use of real-time surveillance and biometric technologies including emotional recognition but with three exceptions, according to Breton.
It would mean police would be able to use the invasive technologies only in the event of an unexpected threat of a terrorist attack, the need to search for victims and in the prosecution of serious crime.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/08/eu-agrees-historic-deal-with-worlds-first-laws-to-regulate-ai
What passes for 'serious crime' in Victor Orban's Hungary?
The Enablers, Devangelicals, Media, and the 1% backing Trump
are making the biggest mistake of their lives. Those who would ride The Tiger end up in his belly. The first order of business for Dictators is purging independent sources of power.
As that radical left scandal sheet, Fortune Magazine has said, Trump is hinting about sending the tanks into New York City. "Next time I'm not waiting."
https://fortune.com/2023/11/27/donald-trump-2024-presidential-campaign-insurrection-act-deploy-military-states/
Vladimir Putin Announces 2024 Re-Election Bid
Source: The Moscow Times
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday announced that he will run for re-election in 2024, state media reported.
The announcement follows months of speculation over whether the 71-year-old, who has been in power since 2000, plans to seek six more years in office after constitutional amendments in 2020 reset his term count.
Putin told Lieutenant Colonel Artyom Zhoga, a Russian military officer, about his decision to participate in the upcoming vote following an awards ceremony for army personnel at the Kremlin, according to the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.
“At the front everyone was worried, wondering whether Putin will run,” Zhoga was quoted as saying.
Read more: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/08/vladimir-putin-announces-2024-re-election-bid-a83348
A reminder of what Trump can expect from Taylor Swift in 2024.
Taylor Swift
@taylorswift13
After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? ‘When the looting starts the shooting starts’??? We will vote you out in November. @realdonaldtrump
1:33 PM · May 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1266392274549776387
1.9M 💕 & 445K Rts!. Taylor's boyfriend, Travis Kielce, the Chief's tight end has taken a the knee during the National Anthem.
FL GOP Chair Ziegler: "My family is rock solid"
Christian Ziegler strikes defiant tone in email amid call to resign as Florida GOP chairhttps://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/02/christian-ziegler-says-wife-bridget-behind-him-amid-assault-allegation/71781792007/
Rock Solid?
Zuchons
@zuchons
Christian Ziegler: "My wife is behind me 150%."
Bridget Ziegler: (grabs strap-on)
https://twitter.com/zuchons/status/1731007081807823147
Remember this? Jesus He Knows Me (1991)
The classic 1991 Genesis music video. Perhaps, because Phil Collins is English, he did not get that RW charlatans were interested in far more than money. Today it's get me 18 million votes for Trump.
@theRickWilson has reposted a Trump Love Letter
MAGA'hole it's true, someone still loves youRick Wilson reposted
@TheRickWilson
We’re coming after you, @realDonaldTrump
We’re going to break you, humiliate you, defeat you at the ballot box, shatter your movement. You’ll spend your sorry last years weeping in a lonely prison cell, your hideous legacy a warning to future generations, your shame eternal.
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1687574090821877760
Microsoft announces hiring Sam Altman, creator of ChatGPT
Source: Actual News Magazine.
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, both co-founders of OpenAI, “will join, with other colleagues, Microsoft to lead a new research team in AI”, wrote Satya Nadella on the X network. OpenAI is the start-up that launched the generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform ChatGPT. The release of the first version of this tool online, on November 30, 2022, kicked off a race in this area.
“The mission continues”, reacted Sam Altman, 38 years old, on. Microsoft has invested several billion dollars in OpenAI and has integrated the technology into its own products, such as the Bing search engine.
The OpenAI board of directors created a surprise on Friday by announcing the dismissal with immediate effect of the Silicon Valley star following “a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he had not always been candid in his communications with the board, hindering his ability to fulfill his responsibilities”. Several managers of the company founded at the end of 2015 have since announced their resignations, in particular the chairman of the board of directors, Greg Brockman.
Read more: https://actualnewsmagazine.com/english/microsoft-announces-hiring-sam-altman-creator-of-chatgpt/
Basically Altman and some top ChatGPT researchers are leaving the (nominally) nonprofit OpenAI to join Microsoft. Open AI's mission statement is : "Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity." Microsoft and "benefits all of humanity" does not compute. Bad news.
'Go Slow' advocate Emmett Shear takes over as OpenAI CEO.
OpenAI is hiring former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear to run company two days after ousting Sam Altmanhttps://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/19/openai-is-hiring-former-twitch-chief-emmett-shear-as-ceo-.html
Shear has been critical of the pace of AI development
Sacked CEO Sam Altman appeared before Congress in March this year. He testified that 'government regulation of AI is crucial' .
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65610337
No doubt the principal beneficiaries of OpenAI's slow or rapid demise, Elon Musk, Google, and Meta will be equally keen on Government regulation
. It was reported today that Meta has disbanded its 'Responsible AI' (RAI) team.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218467983
Luckily Musk will not be pursuing 'Irresponsible AI'.
Open AI's technological lead has kept the likes of Musk and Zuckerberg in check. With the imminent departure of OpenAI's top scientists that impediment will fade over time.
No doubt Congress will soon settle on appropriate regulation of AI
Meta has disbanded its AI guardrails team
According to the report, most RAI members will move to the company’s generative AI product team, while others will work on Meta’s AI infrastructure. The company regularly says it wants to develop AI responsibly and even has a page devoted to the promise, where the company lists its “pillars of responsible AI,” including accountability, transparency, safety, privacy, and more.
RAI was created to identify problems with its AI training approaches, including whether the company’s models are trained with adequately diverse information, with an eye toward preventing things like moderation issues on its platforms. Automated systems on Meta’s social platforms have led to problems like a Facebook translation issue that caused a false arrest, WhatsApp AI sticker generation that results in biased images when given certain prompts, and Instagram’s algorithms helping people find child sexual abuse materials.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23966980/meta-disbanded-responsible-ai-team-artificial-intelligence
Racism, child abuse, and what could possibly do wrong?
