AI

Mark Zuckerberg just lost his Chief AI Scientist, who is pursuing a $1 billion startup to get AI right. At 65, investors are betting on LeCun. He says that LLMs are at a dead end and increasingly resistant to new breakthroughs. Instead, he says the future of AI rests on meaning, rather than selecting the next word. If an AI can visualize an object or an interaction, the question to ask is, "What does it mean?" The answer to that question will deliver the correct response. This would be revolutionary.

What can be done manually can be done by AI a million times faster. If you expose yourself to the Internet through anonymous posts, social media fake accounts, commenting under a false name, etc., you have no expectation of privacy. AI can identify you with as few as 5 data points based on your vocabulary, phrases, length, common typos, transposed letters, subject comparisons, and more. This means that you cannot hide behind a VPN (Virtual Private Network).

This was not a gaffe: it was an expression of thoroughly mechanical worldview held by all Technocrats. Altman leads the most powerful AI company on earth while operating from a framework that cannot distinguish the irreducible dignity of a human being from a server rack's thermal profile. One critic put it bluntly: these people are "deeply antisocial and antihuman." Another called him a psychopath.

Consider: "The U.S. has 3,960 data centers in this dataset - more than the next 14 countries combined." At this rate, the US on the verge of total capture by AI. This includes governance, industry, medical, surveillance, finance and endless AI Psychosis. As AI continues to double in capability about 4 1/2 months and GPU breakthroughs doubling every 6 months, America is cooked.

Most writers talk about the AI that was around 6 months ago, and judge it accordingly. With the capability of AI doubling every 4-5 months, you should immediately see the problem - it's almost impossible to keep up. Shumer has been a world-class coder for years, and now finds himself out of hands-on coding forever. With Anthropic's just-released Opus 4.6, I had to test it for myself, and I concur that something big is happening.

I grew up in the era of supercars: Olds 442, Chevy 454, Dodge Charger R/T, Shelby Cobras, and Mustangs. They usually had floor-mounted, manual transmissions. The most beautiful sound in the world occurs when acceleration in 2nd gear, driving the tachometer past 6,000 RPM, the engine screaming, and then you shift into 3rd gear.

AI safety has always taken a back seat when corporate greed is in control of the narrative. The head of the safety team of Anthropic just quit, saying, "The world is peril." OpenAI has run off two safety teams in the last 4 years. The godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, has been warning of uncontrollable AI coming soon. What's it all about? People at the top of the AI world are jumping ship!