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In other words, a massive handout of taxpayer money to the tech bros for nothing worthwhile.
I thought it was the onion
No just the USA for the next 4 years.
You will live in fear because you'll never be sure until you read the article.
Sinking $500 billion into a bubble that's about to burst is wild.
Perhaps less so if in a couple months it turns out that the contract went to one of Musk's companies. Having a large amount of money to spend on something intangible can also be very useful.
“Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.”
Don't worry, I'm sure Elon will make sure all it does is be racist and make shitty memes. That guy's not smart enough to program an alarm clock.
DogeNet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes a racist douche bag at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
FTFY: '~~Country~~ Tech Billionaires will be prospering like never before'
You can say "cronies."
Ohhh so thats why all the Big Tech people gave him so much money!
What's the question? No idea, but the answer is AI
Are eggs gonna get cheaper now?
Also: what the actual fuck.
So we're gonna stop in flation by checks notes spending half a trillion dollars of money we don't have. Smh
AI project... Manufacturing jobs... I see what you did there. 😉
Sigh.
The grift continues.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
This sounds like a really bad idea:
The “most charismatic” application of AI, said Ellison, would pertain to electronic health records, which would let doctors monitor best practices in far flung places. For instance, a doctor in Indian River reservation would be able to see how a doctor at Memorial Sloan Kettering would a treat a patient, he said.
Do we really want to give a black box unfettered access to everyone's medical records? It's a privacy and security nightmare waiting to happen.
As someone who works in a HIPAA oriented field in biotech: yeah. There are many excellent reasons why we are Absolutely Not Allowed to point an LLM at any PHI/PII database. But fuck the rules I guess, because that’s the era we’re entering. All gas no brakes. What could go wrong.
Keep in mind that the people advocating for AI in all kinds of fields without good reason now are the very same people who never liked the privacy rules in the first place.
It’s not AI. It’s a large language model.
Sorry - pet peeve of mine. I’ll call it AI when it’s actually achieved GAI capabilities.
IRL Cyberpunk, let’s gooo.
Guess, some people did not get, that this is a dystopian world.
Focusing on health…
What an unexpectedly deep bit of research this threw me into.
In 2005 a company called Fortress Credit loaned the Trump Organization $130 million dollars for the construction of trump tower that it later ‘forgave.’ Fortress Credit is owned by Fortress Investment Group, which is owned by SoftBank.
Additionally, SoftBank tried to engage with Trump in 2017 under a similar scheme, where they offered to invest in the U.S.’ IT infrastructure as part of some deal they were cooking up with Trump.
Incidentally, in 2019, New Fortress Energy, also part of the constellation of companies, was granted a peculiar permit to transport LNG over rail lines within populated areas - something that is generally not done due to the danger involved.
So that’s just, you know, the corruption cherry on top of this shit cake.
So now, we have SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle - companies whose CEO’s ‘bent the knee’ announcing a half a trillion dollar investment into an all knowing AI medical black box that the government (and its corporate sponsors) intend to use to track all your medical information.
Yes. Centralized government tracking of your periods, ladies. If this system ever works, the government will know if you’ve ever told a medical professional that you use illicit drugs, even drugs that may be legal at the state level, but illegal federally. The government will know if you’re on antidepressants - something that JFK Jr. wants to send people to re-education/labor camps for being on. They will know if you’ve ever told a doctor that you’re not CIS or straight.
And we know that SoftBank can’t afford to invest that much. They took out a $4 billion loan 2 years ago, and then asked for another 1.1 billion shortly after. Even Elon Musk is saying they don’t have the money.
So they’re going to invest some money in something, get very overpriced government contracts for the operation of it, and use a fraction of the overages from that to ‘invest’ further until their obligation is fulfilled or forgiven – in much the same way that telcos fleeced the government to build out broadband and never did.
It’s a bad deal for all of us, and the very best outcome for anyone is that it will never work.
Because if it does work, we will lose our medical privacy, and we lose control of any data we’ve ever shared with medical professionals - one of the few areas in U.S. citizen’s lives where there are privacy laws to keep them safe.
You are now picturing Trump's face inside the stargate from Stargate SG-1.
You are welcome.
If only, the event horizon would be lethal.
Hmm a stargate is a great sci-fi guillotine come to think of it.