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[reasonsforhope]

"Major AI companies are racing to build superintelligent AI — for the benefit of you and me, they say. But did they ever pause to ask whether we actually want that?

Americans, by and large, don’t want it.

That’s the upshot of a new poll shared exclusively with Vox. The poll, commissioned by the think tank AI Policy Institute and conducted by YouGov, surveyed 1,118 Americans from across the age, gender, race, and political spectrums in early September. It reveals that 63 percent of voters say regulation should aim to actively prevent AI superintelligence.

Companies like OpenAI have made it clear that superintelligent AI — a system that is smarter than humans — is exactly what they’re trying to build. They call it artificial general intelligence (AGI) and they take it for granted that AGI should exist. “Our mission,” OpenAI’s website says, “is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”

But there’s a deeply weird and seldom remarked upon fact here: It’s not at all obvious that we should want to create AGI — which, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be the first to tell you, comes with major risks, including the risk that all of humanity gets wiped out. And yet a handful of CEOs have decided, on behalf of everyone else, that AGI should exist.

Now, the only thing that gets discussed in public debate is how to control a hypothetical superhuman intelligence — not whether we actually want it. A premise has been ceded here that arguably never should have been...

Building AGI is a deeply political move. Why aren’t we treating it that way?

...Americans have learned a thing or two from the past decade in tech, and especially from the disastrous consequences of social media. They increasingly distrust tech executives and the idea that tech progress is positive by default. And they’re questioning whether the potential benefits of AGI justify the potential costs of developing it. After all, CEOs like Altman readily proclaim that AGI may well usher in mass unemployment, break the economic system, and change the entire world order. That’s if it doesn’t render us all extinct.

In the new AI Policy Institute/YouGov poll, the "better us [to have and invent it] than China” argument was presented five different ways in five different questions. Strikingly, each time, the majority of respondents rejected the argument. For example, 67 percent of voters said we should restrict how powerful AI models can become, even though that risks making American companies fall behind China. Only 14 percent disagreed.

Naturally, with any poll about a technology that doesn’t yet exist, there’s a bit of a challenge in interpreting the responses. But what a strong majority of the American public seems to be saying here is: just because we’re worried about a foreign power getting ahead, doesn’t mean that it makes sense to unleash upon ourselves a technology we think will severely harm us.

AGI, it turns out, is just not a popular idea in America.

“As we’re asking these poll questions and getting such lopsided results, it’s honestly a little bit surprising to me to see how lopsided it is,” Daniel Colson, the executive director of the AI Policy Institute, told me. “There’s actually quite a large disconnect between a lot of the elite discourse or discourse in the labs and what the American public wants.”

-via Vox, September 19, 2023

[troythecatfish]

[memenewsdotcom]

China lands on moon

[thetechempire]

Kai-Fu Lee has declared war on Nvidia and the entire US AI ecosystem.

🔹 Lee emphasizes the need to focus on reducing the cost of inference, which is crucial for making AI applications more accessible to businesses. He highlights that the current pricing model for services like GPT-4 — $4.40 per million tokens — is prohibitively expensive compared to traditional search queries. This high cost hampers the widespread adoption of AI applications in business, necessitating a shift in how AI models are developed and priced. By lowering inference costs, companies can enhance the practicality and demand for AI solutions.

🔹 Another critical direction Lee advocates is the transition from universal models to “expert models,” which are tailored to specific industries using targeted data. He argues that businesses do not benefit from generic models trained on vast amounts of unlabeled data, as these often lack the precision needed for specific applications. Instead, creating specialized neural networks that cater to particular sectors can deliver comparable intelligence with reduced computational demands. This expert model approach aligns with Lee’s vision of a more efficient and cost-effective AI ecosystem.

🔹 Lee’s startup, 01. ai, is already implementing these concepts successfully. Its Yi-Lightning model has achieved impressive performance, ranking sixth globally while being extremely cost-effective at just $0.14 per million tokens. This model was trained with far fewer resources than competitors, illustrating that high costs and extensive data are not always necessary for effective AI training. Additionally, Lee points out that China’s engineering expertise and lower costs can enhance data collection and processing, positioning the country to not just catch up to the U.S. in AI but potentially surpass it in the near future. He envisions a future where AI becomes integral to business operations, fundamentally changing how industries function and reducing the reliance on traditional devices like smartphones.

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

Huawei’s New Tri-Fold Phone Broke in a Day! Glitches Abound, a Chorus of complaints and mass returns. To anyone who tries to claim China’s technology is superiors i present you this, a phone inferior to Apple and who’s primary novelty feature makes the phone hilariously easy to break. China is not living in the future, the longer the Technology Blockade is up the more antiquated China’s civilian and military technology becomes. Meanwhile Taiwan is the leading producer of cutting edge chips with a technology sector that rivals even giants like America. Don’t fall for CCP propaganda, keep Taiwan free!!

[workersolidarity]

🇨🇳 🏨 🚨 CHINA IMPLEMENTS DRONE PROGRAM FOR BLOOD TRANSPORTATION IN SHENZHEN PROVINCE

📸 Photos from the implementation of a new drone transportation platform for blood transfusion emergencies at the Shenzhen Blood Center in Shenzhen, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.

The new program was implemented by the Shenzhen Blood Center and is seen here being used for the transportation of blood from the Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital for the first time on Friday, January 19th, 2024.

Integrating both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and 5G communications technology, the new platform is said to help "ensure safety and improved efficiency of blood transportation," according to an article published in China's Xinhua News Agency.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[tinaintokyo]

Chinese New Year in AI's imagination

Given the theme "Chinese New Year", ChatGPT writes a set of prompts, Midjourney generates the images (text to image), filters them, and hands them over to Pika 1.0 to turn them into dynamic videos (image to video).

[troythecatfish]

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[memenewsdotcom]

China bans government iPhones

[kneedeepincynade]

The idea that socialism doesn't innovate is honestly the most ludicrous to me, there was innovation while we were in the caves and you want to tell me there is no innovation in a nation because of a political system? Ludicrous.

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⚠️ LA REPUBBLICA POPOLARE CINESE È IL PAESE TECNOLOGICAMENTE PIÙ AVANZATO AL MONDO ⚠️

😂 Per la serie "finalmente se ne sono accorti" 😵

🔍 Secondo uno studio, finanziato dal Governo Statunitense, la Repubblica Popolare Cinese supera gli Stati Uniti in 37 Settori-Chiave per il Futuro su 44. In alcuni di questi settori, oltretutto, la Cina possiede quasi un "monopolio", e da qui lo slogan degli imperialisti statunitensi: «tutte le democrazie devono unirsi per competere» 🤡

❔ Ma come, gli imperialisti statunitensi non dicevano che il Socialismo era incapace di portare innovazione? Ricordo, per gli smemorati, questi tre articoli:

🤡 "Perché il Socialismo non funzionerà - il Capitalismo è ancora il modo migliore per gestire il rischio e aumentare l'innovazione e la produttività", di Foreign Policy 😱

🤡 "Perché la Cina non sa innovare", di Harvard Business Review 😱

😂 Poi, però, a furia di crogiolarsi nella propaganda anti-Comunista e nel putridume neo-liberista tipico dei Bocconiani, si arriva - finalmente - alla verità: la Cina è il paese più avanzato a livello tecnologico al mondo, e allora vengono scritti articoli come questo:

😂 "Gli Stati Uniti devono collaborare con l’Europa per rallentare il tasso di innovazione della Cina", di CNBC 😂

🤔 Dunque, la ridicola "Teoria del Collasso della Cina" è ormai stata praticamente abbandonata, anche se ogni tanto torna alla ribalta su YouTube, e - oltretutto - sembra che ci lasceremo alle spalle anche quella del "Sozyaliszmo non innova!1!1!" 😘

🇺🇸 Gli USA - come scritto nell'articolo, sono rimasti impressionati dal livello delle Forze Missilistiche dell'Esercito Popolare di Liberazione, ma le preoccupazioni non risiedono soltanto nel Settore Militare, ma anche in quello Civile 😱

💬 "Il nostro Studio rivela che la Cina ha gettato le basi per posizionarsi come la prima superpotenza scientifica e tecnologica al mondo, ponendosi in testa, in alcuni casi anche in modo clamoroso, per quanto riguarda la ricerca nella maggior parte dei domini tecnologici critici ed emergenti" 📄

🇨🇳 I 10 Istituti di Ricerca più importanti al Mondo - scrivono gli autori del Report - si trovano in Cina, e producono Studi di Ricerca nove volte più importanti del Paese che si posiziona al 2° posto, ovvero - in diversi settori - gli USA 🇺🇸

🏆 La Cina, attualmente, mantiene il primato nella Scienza dei Materiali, nell'Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni, nell'Energia Pulita, nella Sostenibilità Ambientale, nella Biotecnologia, nell'Ingegneria della Difesa, nel Settore Spaziale, nell'Intelligenza Artificiale, nella Robotica 🥰

💕 Chi segue il Collettivo Shaoshan da tempo, sa bene che questi temi trattati fin dalla nascita del Canale: rigore nel metodo, scientificità nella ricerca e "实事求是" sono i Principi Fondanti del Collettivo Shaoshan, e ogni post presentato su questi argomenti ha sempre avuto fonti ben precise 📄

🔍 Per chi volesse approfondire, può rifarsi a questi post del Collettivo Shaoshan e a questi link:

🔺15/08/2022 - "La Cina punta all'innovazione tecnico-scientifica nel Settore della Robotica, definito strategico nel 14° Piano Quinquennale"

🔺07/09/2022 - "La chiave del Progetto della Cina è il raggiungimento dell'auto-sufficienza nei Settori della Scienza e della Tecnica"

🔺09/09/2022 - "La Cina e i «Piccoli Giganti», Aziende che operano in settori strategici della Scienza e della Tecnica"

🔺 La Cina mantiene il Primato nell'Energia Solare, Eolica e Idroelettrica 🌞

🔺05/02/2023 - "La Cina sta sconfiggendo la desertificazione ha aumentato la sua copertura forestale del 40% negli ultimi trent'anni"

🔺13/12/2022 - "Il Governo Cinese investirà 143 Miliardi di Dollari nell'Industria Nazionale dei Semiconduttori"

🔺 Gli Scienziati Cinesi pubblicano più paper scientifici di qualsiasi altro paese al Mondo

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⚠️ THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IS THE MOST TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ⚠️

😂 For the series "they finally noticed" 😵

🔍 According to a study, funded by the US Government, the People's Republic of China surpasses the United States in 37 out of 44 Key Future Sectors. In some of these sectors, moreover, China has almost a "monopoly", and hence the slogan of US imperialists: «all democracies must unite to compete» 🤡

❔ Didn't the US imperialists say that Socialism was incapable of bringing innovation? I remember, for the forgetful, these three articles:

🤡 "Why Socialism Won't Work - Capitalism Is Still the Best Way to Manage Risk and Increase Innovation and Productivity", by Foreign Policy 😱

🤡 "Why China Can't Innovate", by Harvard Business Review 😱

😂 But then, by dint of wallowing in anti-Communist propaganda and in the neo-liberal filth typical of Bocconi students, we finally arrive at the truth: China is the most technologically advanced country in the world, and so articles are written like this:

😂 "US must work with Europe to slow China's rate of innovation," by CNBC 😂

🤔 So, the ridiculous "China Collapse Theory" has now been practically abandoned, even if it occasionally makes a comeback on YouTube, and - moreover - it seems that we will also leave behind that of "Sozyaliszmo does not innovate!1!1! " 😘

🇺🇸 The USA - as written in the article, was impressed by the level of the People's Liberation Army's Missile Forces, but the concerns are not only in the Military Sector, but also in the Civil Sector 😱

💬 "Our study reveals that China has laid the foundations for positioning itself as the first scientific and technological superpower in the world, taking the lead, in some cases even sensationally, in terms of research in most of the critical technological domains and emerging" 📄

🇨🇳 The 10 most important Research Institutes in the World - write the authors of the Report - are located in China, and produce Research Studies nine times more important than the country which ranks 2nd, or - in various sectors - the USA 🇺🇸

🏆 China currently holds the lead in Materials Science, Telecommunications Engineering, Clean Energy, Environmental Sustainability, Biotechnology, Defense Engineering, Space Sector, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics 🥰

💕 Anyone who has been following the Shaoshan Collective for some time knows that these topics have been dealt with since the birth of the Channel: rigor in the method, scientific research and "实事求是" are the Founding Principles of the Shaoshan Collective, and every post presented on these topics has always had very precise sources 📄

🔍 For those who want to learn more, you can refer to these posts from the Shaoshan Collective and to these links:

🔺15/08/2022 - "China aims at technical-scientific innovation in the Robotics Sector, defined as strategic in the 14th Five-Year Plan"

🔺07/09/2022 - "The key to China's Project is the achievement of self-sufficiency in the fields of science and technology"

🔺09/09/2022 - "China and the «Little Giants», Companies operating in strategic sectors of Science and Technology"

🔺 China Maintains Leadership in Solar, Wind and Hydroelectric Energy 🌞

🔺05/02/2023 - "China is defeating desertification has increased its forest cover by 40% in the last thirty years"

🔺13/12/2022 - "The Chinese government will invest 143 billion dollars in the national semiconductor industry"

🔺 Chinese Scientists publish more scientific papers than any other country in the world

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[tomorrowusa]

China is stepping up its manipulation of US public opinion. It worked well for Putin in 2016 so why would Xi Jinping ignore the potential?

A Chinese marketing firm likely organized and promoted protests in Washington last year as part of a wide-ranging pro-Beijing influence campaign, according to new research. The Chinese firm also used a network of over 70 fake news websites to promote pro-China content in an example of the more aggressive efforts by pro-China operatives to influence US political debate in recent years, according to security firm Mandiant, which analyzed the activity. One of the protests was against a US government ban on goods produced in China’s Xinjiang region, where US officials have accused the Chinese government of systematic repression of the Uyghurs. The other protest was on the sidelines of a June conference on international religious freedom, Mandiant said. One of the protests only attracted roughly a dozen people but it showed the scope and ambition of the pro-China efforts. The hired protesters, who included self-proclaimed musicians and actors in the Washington, DC, area, apparently had no idea they were being enlisted in a pro-China influence campaign, the Mandiant researchers said. The campaign backed by the Chinese firm, Shanghai Haixun Technology Co., Ltd., is “intended to sow discord in US society,” Ryan Serabian, a senior analyst at Mandiant, told CNN.

Rent-a-protester is nothing new. There are companies like this one which will create a scene for you — for a price.

A bigger problem is the proliferation of bogus news sites. They often have names and branding which look like (but aren't identical) to those of legit news organizations.

It doesn't help matters that Google News is way lax about what it considers a "news" site.

Of course the most fertile ground for fake news sites is social media. Meta (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) is more interested in boosting activity than in accuracy of information. And Twitter (or whatever Elon is calling it today) these days has become a playpen for Nazis.

People need to SIMPLY STOP getting news from dubious social media sources.

There are plenty of respected sources for news. But it takes a bit more effort than just glancing at an unmoderated feed.

No source is 100% perfect; but a good news source will admit an error and then offer a correction.

Public broadcasters in liberal democracies are good sources. Even public broadcasters in some non-English speaking democracies may have English language content. Americans in particular need to get more news directly from reliable sources in other countries. It's a big world out there.

The corporatization and monopolization of local and regional newspapers in the US has been terrible news. However a lot of smaller excellent news sites have sprung up to fill the gap in local coverage in many municipalities.

So create your own news feed of legit sources – but keep it separate from strictly opinion sites.

If you do run across a dubious site pretending to be a news source, don't hesitate to call them out publicly. This "news site" may just be a propaganda boiler room operating in Shanghai or Saint Petersburg. It may seem like a game of whack-a-mole to some degree but keeping the lifespans of such sites short prevents them from building a base.

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Speaking of China, apparently Foreign Minister Qin Gang has been purged.

China’s foreign minister Qin Gang ousted in surprise shake-up of Xi Jinping’s foreign policy leadership

[thepopoptic]

AI is here.

[dystopia-now-20xx]

Angry woman smashes a receptionist robot in a Chinese hospital over ‘medical appointments’.