A few days ago it looked like the EU AI Act had finally been negotiated, and resolved. There was much rejoicing. But the big tech executives that would need to deal with it aren’t happy, and are doing their best after the fact to undermine a hard-won compromise that involved years of negotiations and multiple all-nighters.
Just on the issue itself - there isn’t any *actual text* yet, only political agreements that are currently interpreted by people writing said text. Which looks like it will take another month.
Some water to your mill Gary, take a look at the comments here about people doubting the authenticity of a live chat between Elon Musk and a few other people :
People (me included) are getting increasingly doubtful as to whether or not audio conversations posted online are real or not. And that's just the beginning, imagine having to doubt any video involving celebrities ? What happens when AI gets so good you can fake a video of your neighbor doing something illegal from just a few old videos of him at a party ? There's a really nasty roller coaster track coming ahead.
This is pretty straightforward. AI safety threatens their business model, market share, their wealth! They believe. Therefore, the big tech aristocracy, like aristocracies of the past, will lie and cheat to protect their enormous wealth generating ecosystem.
Hanlon's Razor, maybe? I'm not that convinced these 'tinkering engineers trying to get beyond light speed' are all that smart and he might simply not have been informed. Besides, is it possible the proposal was old, but its addition to the draft text was late? Just wondering, because in general stupidity is a better explanation than evil.
"Gary Marcus has seen Yann LeCun lie before, and documented it, but this takes the cake."
It's much worse Gary. This takes the chocolate. It takes the world's supply of Vosges! 😱
Just on the issue itself - there isn’t any *actual text* yet, only political agreements that are currently interpreted by people writing said text. Which looks like it will take another month.
Is it necessary to put it in such a dramatic way though? Better to present the irrefutable facts than to make it as yet another personal feud.
Please join Threads, Mr. Marcus! Europe is in now. Let's go!
Some water to your mill Gary, take a look at the comments here about people doubting the authenticity of a live chat between Elon Musk and a few other people :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCkQH1T-X6A
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEW2aYQlXo4
People (me included) are getting increasingly doubtful as to whether or not audio conversations posted online are real or not. And that's just the beginning, imagine having to doubt any video involving celebrities ? What happens when AI gets so good you can fake a video of your neighbor doing something illegal from just a few old videos of him at a party ? There's a really nasty roller coaster track coming ahead.
This is pretty straightforward. AI safety threatens their business model, market share, their wealth! They believe. Therefore, the big tech aristocracy, like aristocracies of the past, will lie and cheat to protect their enormous wealth generating ecosystem.
Throwing shade... the oldest trick in the book!
Hanlon's Razor, maybe? I'm not that convinced these 'tinkering engineers trying to get beyond light speed' are all that smart and he might simply not have been informed. Besides, is it possible the proposal was old, but its addition to the draft text was late? Just wondering, because in general stupidity is a better explanation than evil.
But it was too early then to be regulating something that nobody understood what it even was!