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  • Hacker News
  • Weird flex but ok
  • Nobody talks about telecom operators. But they will be the ones disconnecting the malicious bots when they see one.
  • The problem is not AI, the problem is humans mis-using AI
  • What ever happened to that other Googler that claimed Gemini was conscious?

    My read is these folks are too high on their own stash

    At some point they must recognize we are in the "boy who cried wolf" tale, right? You cannot go on for years spreading FUD about how AI is so dangerous and have none of it materialize. The growth is looking a lot more tame than their "high on their own stash" anxiety is letting is on to believe

  • I can't help wondering if the major labs think that tackling the alignment problem and implementing the 'kill switch' that is currently being proposed is going to be their moat.
  • OK, I've listened to the warnings and they still sound like the usual nonsense by out-of-touch techies who spend too much time lost in apocalyptic sci-fi fantasies. In the real world it's still hard to move around physical atoms or keep machinery working reliably. AI won't change that.

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