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Even the guys who went into this with seemingly good intentions have long since sold their souls for the million dollars salaries.
Altman genuinely startd out wanting to help the world, look at him now, feeding the war machine.
And he was one of the better twats in charge, let's not get started on the rest of the ghouls in charge, they don't want UBI, they want control, money and power

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QuickTidal, on 04 March 2026 - 04:10 PM, said:

Azath Vitr (D, on 04 March 2026 - 03:50 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 04 March 2026 - 03:25 PM, said:

I think the most interesting thing about all this is that these corporate capitalist 1%-ers doing all this are so used to thinking short term and not long term that the notion that replacing things with AI will eventually lead to a massive wealth disparity in which the people they NEED to buy and use their products can't anymore because their jobs were usurped by AI and they have no money, will in turn lead to the downfall of those companies and stocks and they can't see it, or don't care...and I'm convinced that most of the older ones don't give a shit because they won't be here anymore, but their kids and anyone under the age of 40 is straight fucking themselves with this pathway...AI is a death cult spiralling and none of these short-sighted fucks is ever going to see it.

No, the long-term plan is to implement some variation on UBI and shift the velocity of money towards further development of AI and new technologies: quantum computing, potential radical advances in biotechnology (including life extension), fusion energy, robotics, space mining and colonization, etc. As well as to applications appealing to the ultra-wealthy---and to those who were able and willing to invest heavily in the AI winners before the transition.

Personally of course I favor using AI to transition to more of a planned, rational economy, with relevant economic production and consumption personalized and optimized for individual health and general human well-being, while still allowing people some agency and choice (or at least illusions thereof, if they can't handle the choice...). With thorough individualized data collection AI has the potential to drastically outperform traditional markets in matching supply to demand.

You have FAR too much faith in billionaires to do the right things...I assure you, they won't.

At least in terms of awareness about these topics it's fair to say they are aware. Sam Altman has written fairly prominently about heavily taxing capital, sharing ownership of the resources generated by AI, and funded studies into universal basic income.

Whether you see that as remotely serious, or just as a cynical co-option of academic ideas as a tool to project that your company totally cares... well let's just say their behaviour has not exactly backed up their talk so far.

(Modern American ideology remains both fascinating and hilarious in the capacity for an influential figure to suggest massive capital taxes and the direct distribution of the ownership of the means of production to citizens... and then to still call that idea "capitalism for everyone" with a straight face).

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Rycerz Królestwa... (A Knight of the Realm)

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Here's one for you AVD. Read the article and the links to other articles in the text. Very interesting.

This monkey selfie will protect you from AI slop

https://www.bbc.com/...cted-the-ai-age

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Shenzen ramen robo-cops:

Video | Facebook

And another beautiful humanoid for the home:

Video | Facebook

These really are lovely takes on cozily "dystopian" sci-fi.

Though IDK about that ultra-realistic female robot head that fits on a desk and just makes faces, looks, listens, and speaks. Maybe as a therapist or life coach?

On the medical side, China seems to also be outperforming the United States in implementing scientifically validated medical AI:

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In China, AI detection of pancreatic cancer via chest and abdominal CT is becoming routine using their validated AI tool known as PANDA. That is to say, the AI is automatically used for detection even though the scan was ordered for something else. [...]

AI for medical images, with extensive research dating back more than a decade ago, is not being implemented [in the United States]. Whether it's a mammogram, a CT scan, a retinal image, or colonoscopy, that have all been extensively studied, their value to improve accuracy and risk assessment in medicine is being missed and essentially disregarded [in the United States].

[...] On the other hand, tens of millions of Americans are using AI chatbots for medical support, as are a substantial proportion of physicians. There are many reasons to use AI here that are easy to support, because they represent an extension of a web/Google search. Just with much more specificity and depth of response, not something that would be subject to regulatory oversight. But when it comes to making a diagnosis or providing a treatment plan there needs to be proof that LLMs are improving accuracy and outcomes. We've already seen multiple studies (again not real world) when the AI performed better for various tasks than the doctor with AI, including the new Science paper this week, indicating we don't even know yet the optimal way of deploying AI (the human-in-the-loop question). As Raj Manrai wrote in his excellent explainer thread, as one of the senior co-authors of the Science paper: "What do our results actually call for? Prospective clinical trials. Health systems investing in infrastructure now. Monitoring frameworks that track not just diagnostic accuracy but safety, efficiency, and cost. The science has reached a point where trials are justified." We can't get to high performance medicine, relying on generative AI for key decisions, without that.

https://erictopol.su...-implementation

China in contrast:

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Medical imaging dominates AI healthcare deployment in China, accounting for 67% of the 59 Class III medical devices approved by the National Medical Products Administration by 2023 [7]. Deep learning algorithms can automatically detect pulmonary nodules, intracranial hemorrhage, and coronary artery stenosis, and clinical trials have shown that the interpretation time of chest CT scans has been reduced from 10 min to 30 s, while improving sensitivity by 9 percentage points [20].


Clinical validation studies have shown that the system has strong performance in multiple imaging modes. A multicentre trial of the Shukun CT post-processing system achieved an AUC of 0.848, 82.9% sensitivity, and 88.5% specificity in 88 patients [20]. The thyroid ultrasound AI system developed by Zhejiang University and deployed in multiple hospitals in China has improved the accuracy of radiologists by 10% in the process of processing more than 5,000 patients [20].


Tencent's AI medical imaging platform "Tencent Miying" has achieved an accuracy of 90% in early esophageal cancer screening in clinical validation in more than 100 large hospitals

Artificial intelligence in Chinese healthcare: a review of applications and future prospects | Biomedical Engineering Letters | Springer Nature Link

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

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Figure taught two F.03 robots to clean a room and make a bed in under 2 minutes - fully autonomous.

Robo-maid... might double as the ultimate threesome partner (with vibrator and orifice attachments...).

And perhaps less practical, but something I'm pretty sure some of you have fantasized about:

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China's Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha.
The company has unveiled the GD01, a massive transforming mecha shown spider-walking, bending backwards, and tearing through cinder blocks in a dramatic promo video. While its humanoids are limited to performing relatively simple actions autonomously, the GD01 seems to be built more for destruction, publicity, and aura farming than practical use.

Wired - Facebook

The new knights?... or the new cybertrucks and Tesla flameflowers for rich assholes?...

I'm imagining Trump rampaging around in one... and getting taken down. Maybe plummeting off a bridge... flailing his giant mecha arms and legs.