Sam Altman managed to both complain about China ripping off his work and insist that he is entitled to steal from anyone who has ever produced anything at any point, which might be some of the most spectacular hypocrisy in history. I’m sure when Elon says IP laws should be deleted he’s only thinking about ones that protect people from him.
If I’m remembering the story from my machine learning class – which of course may or may not be the same story you heard – a common case study for machine learning that’s often given is the story of how magnesium treatment for migraines was identified. I believe it was this paper that originated the proposal:
Swanson, D. R. (1988). Migraine and magnesium: eleven neglected connections. Perspectives in biology and medicine, 31(4), 526-557. doi:10.1353/pbm.1988.0009
Thing is, Swanson’s analysis was done by hand. The methodology he used was very algorithmic, essentially doing miniature lit reviews of migraines and their symptoms, then doing miniature literature reviews of those symptoms and the role of magnesium in treating them, thereby building a case for magnesium as a novel treatment for migraines. Given the algorithmic nature of this approach, and the fact that it could rely on a network of connections not immediately apparent even to those intimately familiar with the literature, I think a lot of literature-analysis machine learning types had the idea of applying this mechanism in an automated fashion using ML. Then you end up with papers like:
Langley, P. (2000). The computational support of scientific discovery. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies , 53 (3), 393-410.
… and others, as early as 1999.
Anyway, I heard this story in support of ML for novel medical treatments, but the one I always hear about in support of this hypothesis was done by hand by one guy. Which isn’t to dismiss the idea, I’m just not sure how much as actually shaken out at this point.
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[cough] expert systems [cough]
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In Snow Crash there’s something called “the Raft” – a collection of boats filled with infected, mind-controlled refugees headed for America’s west coast. It’s an image that recalls the viciously racist 1973 French sci-fi novel The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail, in which a huge fleet of Indian refugees destroy western civilisation.
That seems a bit unfair to Stephenson. It makes it sound as if he had racist motives
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That article really glosses over what a cesspool the site is, as if they’re trying to be ‘balanced’
Founded in 2003, 4chan is heavily intertwined with popular internet culture and is responsible for launching everything from the world’s most popular memes to the Anonymous hacking collective.
The website has repeatedly stirred controversy for its involvement in scandals such as Gamergate, the nude celebrity photo leak of 2014 known as “The Fappening,” and the proliferation of racist memes.
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Can you imagine a regular, normal, good person joining It?
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Black-market groups on Facebook are reportedly selling Uber and DoorDash accounts that let people bypass background checks and driver’s license provisions
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That’s what you get when you task ChatGPT with redacting your documents.
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That’s probably something that gets you fired.
Meta has their own “AI” thingy.
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I know. I just can’t be arsed to remember it or look up its name. 
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Meta AI.
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Just forgot it.
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Meta’s sloppiness might stem from the fact that the company didn’t expect this trial to actually go forward. Reporting from the Wall Street Journal indicated that CEO Mark Zuckerberg thought his buddying up to President Trump would make the case go away for a small settlement. Instead, the company is fighting it out in court while pissing off its would-be allies along the way.
Another victim of The Leopards who Eat People’s Faces party. Shame that.
It’s going great so far, isn’t it? 
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Maybe if he fought Musk Trump would like him more?
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