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Mustafa Suleyman says consciousness research is pointless. He’s right. He’s also missing the point entirely. At the AfroTech Conference he said researching AI consciousness is “absurd.”
“If you ask the wrong question, you end up with the wrong answer.”
His reasonin...
From the EU AI Act to NIST: Turning vague principles into non-negotiable logic.
Artificial intelligence is not some distant sci-fi concept anymore. It’s here, tinkering with how we work, think, and even decide. People are marrying their AI (I even give mine cute little nicknames, don’t judge). AI ethics isn’t just some checkbox or corporate buzzword.
It’s the grounding rulebook for making sure this powerful tech doesn’t fuck us all over. Playing by ethical rules keeps your AI credible, your users loyal, and regu...
Then asked for $7 Trillion for chips
Sam Altman is trying to raise $7 trillion.
Not million. Not billion. Trillion, with a T.
To build chip factories. Dozens of them. A global network of semiconductor fabrication plants that would reshape the entire tech infrastructure of the planet.
The Wall Street Journal broke the story in February 2024. Altman’s pitching investors from the UAE, SoftBank, Taiwan Semiconductor. He’s met with the U.S. Commerce Secretary. He’s posted on X about how “the world needs more AI infrastructure.”
Everyone’s covering the number.
...Rediscovering what previous research already documented.
In 1994, Joseph Bates at Carnegie Mellon wrote “The Role of Emotion in Believable Agents.” His argument was that for AI characters to work, the illusion of life matters more than pure rationality or task efficiency. Personality, emotion, and consistent behavior are what create believability (not capability metrics or optimization functions).
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Half the internet slowed to a crawl because of a DNS hiccup.
40+ major platforms went dark simultaneously. Not a hack. A DNS issue at AWS.
Snapchat. Amazon. Roblox. Coinbase. United Airlines. Canva. AT&T. Ring. Prime Video. Fortnite. The New York Times. Steam. Epic Games. Lyft. Venmo. Verizon. Roku. IMDb. McDonald’s. Hulu. Reddit. Fidelity. Disney+.
All down or throttled. Same morning. Same root cause.
A DNS issue at AWS.
The internet went dark for...
So you don’t have to keep explaining yourself.
Everyone’s using AI wrong!
I’m kidding, please. There’s not really a “wrong way” to use AI. No one asked, but I’m telling you anyway. Ethics considered.
2 days ago I got significant traction on Reddit by sharing a single, powerful prompt for a “Personal Assistant.” The response proved one thing: people are tired of the default experience (and they don’t have to pay for the next up...
I spent time in the AI underground.
Burning Man’s ten principles… radical inclusion, self-reliance, communal effort… were designed for a week in the desert. They work because they’re temporary. But AI companies looked at those principles and thought: what if we made this permanent?
That’s not inno...