There is not race to AGI.

Cheers
Telmo.

On Sat, Feb 8, 2025, at 17:30, Matt Mahoney wrote:
> AI generated video keeps getting better. Here is an example from OmniHuman-1 
> by ByteDance. Why do we even need human actors anymore?
> https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/s/UBlqfPyCwq
> 
> China has also ported DeepSeek to run on Huawei 910x accelerators that are 
> banned in the US, UK, and EU. V3 is priced at 1 yuan $0.13) per million 
> tokens of input and 2 per output through SiliconFlow. R1 is priced at 4 and 
> 16. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/beginning-end-deepseek-goes-100-183100522.html
> 
> China is investing heavily in building its own chips after US export controls 
> on NVIDIA and advanced lithography from Dutch ASML under US pressure. Prior 
> to 2020, US and Chinese scienctists worked together and shared data freely, 
> but both Trump and Biden put an end to that.
> 
> You can see where this is going. China was way ahead of the US on controlling 
> Internet content to suppress dissent, and it is clear that the rest of the 
> world will follow. The bipartisan ban on TikTok and proposed bill to ban 
> Chinese AI like DeepSeek is just the beginning. It is clear that social media 
> content will be AI moderated and generated, run by tech billionaires beholden 
> to whoever is in power.
> 
> It's not uncontrolled, self improving AI that we need to worry about. The 
> goal is not intelligence, it's modeling human behavior. All you need to pass 
> the Turing test or to create an upload of your mind is predicting your 
> outputs and carrying them out in real time. But the money is in predicting 
> what you will want and selling it to you. Prediction is the key to control, 
> and AI is better at it than you are.
> 
> 
> 
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