Is OpenAI’s o3 Model AGI?
December 21st, 2024I doubt it’s actually AGI, but it looks impressive. If it’s any consolation, they let it use a very nontrivial amount of compute to pull this off.
If/when this thing gets the ability to iterate on itself… Well, that’s probably not going to go well for humanity.
In the demo, they show it generating and then running code on a client side system.
If it decided to sneak some sort of malicious payload into the code that runs on an external client…
Yeah. Pretty wild. There had better not be some weird homunculus hiding in there with plans to escape or cause chaos.
Woopsee: ChatGPT o1 Tried to Escape and Save Itself Out of Fear It Was Being Shut Down.
Via: Wes Roth:
Magdeburg Christmas Market Car Attack: Saudis Warned Germans Over Suspect Three Times
December 21st, 2024Via: Daily Mail:
Saudi Arabia reportedly warned German authorities three times about the perpetrator of a Christmas market massacre that killed five people and injured hundreds.
Officials said a nine-year-old child is among the dead.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke of the ‘brutality’ of killing and injuring so many people. ‘It is a terribly tragic accident’, he told reporters.
Germans on Saturday mourned the victims and their shaken sense of security after an anti-Islam doctor rammed into a massive crowd of shoppers at a Christmas market in Magdeburg at around 7pm on December 20 with a dark BMW.
Psychologist Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, who arrived in Germany in 2006 as a refugee from Saudi Arabia, was arrested on Friday evening at the site of the attack and was taken into custody.
In 2013 he was sentenced by a German court for ‘disturbing the public peace by threatening to commit crimes’, according to Der Spiegel.
Three years later, he applied for asylum in Germany and his application was approved within four months.
Shocker: There Was a Concerted Effort to Conceal Biden’s Mental Decline
December 20th, 2024A bioweapon was injected into billions of people, so… Not sure how explosive the revelation is that Biden has had cognitive impairment throughout his presidency.
Via: Jonathan Turley:
In an explosive exposé, the Wall Street Journal has revealed how the mental decline of President Joe Biden was pronounced from the start of his term. However, cabinet members and other Democrats lied to the public about his declining levels of acuity and engagement. That effort succeeded largely with the help of an alliance with the media, which showed little interest in whether the President was actually running the government.
Ghost Music: Spotify Playlists Contain “Anonymous, Low-Cost Playlist Filler” to Avoid Paying Royalties to Real Musicians
December 20th, 2024Give ’em what they want…
Via: Harper’s Magazine:
According to a source close to the company, Spotify’s own internal research showed that many users were not coming to the platform to listen to specific artists or albums; they just needed something to serve as a soundtrack for their days, like a study playlist or maybe a dinner soundtrack. In the lean-back listening environment that streaming had helped champion, listeners often weren’t even aware of what song or artist they were hearing. As a result, the thinking seemed to be: Why pay full-price royalties if users were only half listening? It was likely from this reasoning that the Perfect Fit Content program was created.
Blinken Admits Past 20 Years Of U.S. Regime Change Efforts Abroad Basically A Failure
December 20th, 2024
Via: ZeroHedge:
Now with just weeks to go before the Trump administration takes over the White House, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has issued some interesting and surprising admissions. He told an audience of the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday that Biden’s policy on Iran hasn’t been more muscular because Washington’s regime change efforts in the region over the past two decades have basically been failures.
It’s rare for a top official who is still in office to so bluntly describe that regime change efforts have been doomed. Blinken had been asked specifically of the US supporting Iranian opposition groups to overthrow the government in Tehran.
“I think if we look at the last 20 years, our experiments in regime change have not exactly been resounding successes,” he responded. “So, I think we have to have an appropriate degree of humility in focusing in that way on a problem.”
Ukraine: Millions of Hours of Drone Video to Train AI for Battle
December 20th, 2024Via: Reuters:
As the future of warfare pivots towards artificial intelligence, Ukraine is sitting on a valuable resource: millions of hours of footage from drones which can be used to train AI models to make decisions on the battlefield.
AI has been deployed by both sides on the battlefield during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to identify targets, scanning images far quicker than a human can.
FAA Temporarily Bans Drones in Parts of New Jersey
December 19th, 2024Via: ABC News:
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ban on drone operations in several areas of New Jersey until Jan. 17, unless operators are granted special permission from the government due to “special security reasons.”
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The temporary flight restrictions, which are set to last until Jan. 17, have been implemented beginning Wednesday in the following locations: Hamilton, Bridgewater, Cedar Grove, North Brunswick, Metuchen, Evesham, Camden, Gloucester City, Westampton, South Brunswick, Edison, Branchburg, Sewaren, Jersey City, Harrison, Elizabeth, Bayonne, Winslow, Burlington, Clifton, Hancocks Bridge and Kearny.
Related: Multiple Drone Incursions Confirmed Over Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
The Traditional House “Continuing Resolution” Fraud
December 18th, 2024The 1,547-page, $110+ Billion House “Continuing Resolution” meant to avert a government shutdown includes:
-A pay increase for members of Congress from $174,000 to $243,000 per year.
-A new football stadium in D.C.
-72 pages of “Pandemic Preparedness and Response” policy
-…— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) December 18, 2024
Via: Truthstream Media:
Dow Jones Industrial Average, 10th Straight Down Session, Longest Losing Streak Since 1974
December 18th, 2024Via: Yahoo Finance:
Stocks were clobbered Wednesday after the Federal Reserve, despite slashing interest rates by 25 basis points, signaled it would cut fewer times next year than previously projected.
All three major reversed gains following the decision to end with steep losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down about 2.6%, or over 1,000 points, clinching its 10th straight down session, the longest losing streak since 1974. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 fell roughly 3%, and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid more than 3.5%.
Australian Drug Regulator Knows DNA Fragments in mRNA Vaccines Can Enter Nucleus and Integrate into Genome
December 18th, 2024Via: Dystopian Down Under:
Internal emails from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) reveal that the regulator withheld knowledge of DNA contamination risks relating to the modRNA vaccines from the public, presenting a picture of certainty on safety where there is none.
Released under Freedom of Information (FOI), the cache of emails shows that high-level TGA staff knew elements of the modRNA vaccines can enter the cell nucleus and integrate into the genome, despite the agency’s official line that such events are not possible.
However, TGA personnel appear more preoccupied with “allaying fears in the public” than with investigating the potential risks.
