#eric schmidt

They all want the same thing. First, Dario Amodei blabbed to Jensen Huang (who's making money just fine on the hardware anyone can run AI models on), and now Schmidt is saying what I already told you three years ago.

It's fucking obvious why they're doing all of it. The onslaught of data centers that are crucial in the process of centralization, monetization and eventually monopolization, but not necessary at all to actually run the AI models, lobbying for the duplicitous bills that state one thing but intend something entirely else, technological solutions peddled to the credulous dipshits who quickly find out their decrepit shitboxes can't even handle them, and if they do, they ruin their work, and so on.

Meanwhile, open source models aren't intended to "win" the arms race. They're intended to stop it, much like the Pope postulates. Imagine this: everyone gets an AI model, along with the detailed instructions and tools to customize it, tweak the weights, add new information and so on. And for free at that. Everyone can build it and run it without anyone snooping into their prompts, stopping them from asking certain questions under irrational pretexts or demanding monthly fees and extra credits.

Those who desperately want to be super suddenly aren't. Because everyone can be super if they want. They don't need data centers, they don't need monthly fees, they don't get guardrailed up the ass because they dared to ask questions about human biology. Suddenly, the trillion-dollar business crashes under its own weight, because it never had any solid foundations. And the tech itself fucks back off to research labs and nerd caves.

Commencement address season hasn’t been going well — for the commencement speakers. I’m sure you’ve seen the videos on social media. The big shots who have been brought in to inspire a next generation of graduates have used their speeches as opportunities to extol the limitless possibilities that artificial intelligence will bring. They’re speaking to graduates who are entering a shaky job…

A couple of things. First of all - the first guy is a FORMER Google CEO. He's not even running the company any more, and he's still shilling their bottom line. Secondly, who the actual fuck are hiring these malignant fucks to speak at university/college graduations? And finally, what gives these fucking cretins the right to be speaking to college students - motherfuckers who just spent four years or more getting a degree - about the thing they're specifically gearing up to monopolize the industries these graduates are going to be going into?

Like it's absolutely fucking baffling, right? Commencement speakers are usually meant to be somewhat inspiring, speaking from personal experience and instilling a sense of hope or sharing some degree of wisdom with a crowd of people about to enter - for lack of a better term - the "real world" for the first time. An example of a commencement speech that actually addresses university graduates as people and offers constructive and inspiring advice is Tim Minchin speaking at the University of Western Australia:

And that works because Tim Minchin is an artist. He's a satirist, so he makes jokes, but he gives real, solid life advice and gives his speech with the intent to give his audience hope for their futures.

Booed ! Eric Schmidt shared his thoughts on technology and artificial intelligence during a commencement address at the University of Arizona.

Ex-Google CEO Gets Booed While Discussing AI in Commencement Speech