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Lots of people have tattoos of what cutting edge video game graphics looked like in 1992.

Perhaps there is a nonfinacial future for blockchain after all. Certified human provenance.

Why blockchain? Any old public key signature scheme would do for that (and conversely, a blockchain doesn't solve the sockpuppet problem either).

“Git” again earning its name.

You can’t certify human unless there is some sort of ID check. Even then a human could willfully pass off any AI work as their own.

Why do you think Altman wanted to build world coin to have biometric capture

So he could sell the data? It’s almost certainly not because he cares so much about certifying human versus AI. Even then the biometric data is not going to be enough. Any human could still use the biometric data to pass AI work off as their own.

Indeed and the data is worth much much more if it is tied to a biometric.

And if you assume that in the future there will be crypto banks globally then you want to be that final authority layer between the real and the computer world


Yeah but my original comment was talking about being able to reliably mark something as AI generated or human generated. Crypto, encryption etc. whatever you throw at it it’s just not possible (other than media that can be watermarked at the generation source).

By any means necessary, by God, we shall have Paperclips.

It's kind of ironic that the word alignment, which used to mean this very problem in reinforcement learning, has been perverted to mean something very different and then fell out of fashion (in favor of “guardrails” in the mouth of the big labs) right at the moment it became relevant.

Hopefully fewer than 5 octillion paperclips...

We definitely need more than that! Turn the galaxy into paperclips!

Well, then, I guess we'll just have to release the hypnodrones.

The Paperclip Maximizer is only one of Nick Bostrom's stupid and outlandishly far-fetched ideas. In this case, the lack of consideration for geologic, energy and supply constraints is such a massive facepalm. And if I am wrong I guess no one will be here to say how stupid I was in saying this today.

It's a metaphor.

It is an extremely weak metaphor for a weak class of unlikely doomsday scenarios. You don't need Occam's Razor to discount this cinema-induced malaise; clumsy use of a rusty can-opener would suffice.

There are very strict protections in place surrounding software’s use of a users address info. It’s not just a library call to access it (which the Shopping UI might do). Requires explicit user opt in on a per feature basis.

Is that GDPR? Is it still true in America?

There are internal controls as to the use of personal data within Google. Contrary to the popular opinion, personal data is not actually a free for all within Google

MinMax

Yes. As a kid, hearing it used in like GI Joe or something, it always felt equivalent to “massacred”.

RIP Optimus Prime.

This thinking is why I am all in on GOOG shares. As a bonus, that means I’m getting part of Anthropic’s gains as well!

Google AI person here:

Using grounding in Gemini is indeed backed by the same canonical data source for business information (like opening hours) as Google Maps. This stuff is available in its own API for a GCP fee, but we’ve built tooling to connect it to the Gemini agentic ecosystem as well.


So if I understand you correctly, Gemini has direct free access to the Google Maps API in a manner that others (people, LLMs) would need to sign up for API access and pay for?

That is my understanding, which is a nice thing. I use Exa and Brave search APIs separately but the Google bundling is convenient.

Ollama Cloud offers the same thing: they supply a web search tool bundled with cloud API inference services.


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