Whether it's a billionaire believing his "experimental approach" can outsmart three hundred atmospheres under the ocean, or zero hands on the steering wheel on the freeway, physics always takes care of such hubris one way or another... and beware to anyone who sits nearby... #Titan#TitanSub#TitanicSub#Regulation#safety
Happy Juneteenth and Happy (belated) Father's day! Give us a share and come join the tech chat! https://www.twitch.tv/somegadgetguy #SGGQA 303 - Reddit Stays Dark, FCC Ask About Data Caps, EU Battery Regulations, Twitter Wont Pay Its Bills
#AI#France#GenerativeAI#AIAct#Regulation: "France has typically been seen as a proponent of strong regulation on technology — but it has taken issue with parts of the EU AI Act related to generative AI, the type of technology that underpins OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which it sees as too stringent.
“My worry is that in the recent past few weeks, the EU Parliament … has taken a very sort of strong stance on AI regulation, using, in some sense, this AI act as a way to try and solve too many problems at once,” Barrot, France’s digital minister, said on the provisions around generative AI.
France desires a global regulation on A.I., which it hopes to achieve through the G7 group that includes the U.S. and Britain, as well as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.
I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free and open source software.
I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.
I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.
I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.
I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.
I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.
I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.
I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.
I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).
I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.
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Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we named Tyoma.
I'm currently working at Apple on the Vision Pro headset team.
#NYT 📆 June 17, 2023 Estimated to be worth about $460 billion 💰, #SpaceBusinesses sometimes operate in legal black holes 🕳️
• In #theory, #space belongs to #everyone
• That perspective is about to collide with #reality
• #SpaceDebris 🗑️ : Since nobody owns space, it isn’t always clear whose #responsibility it is to clean it up
• The #US 🇺🇸 government has #deliberately left some holes
• Business leaders caution against creating so much regulation 👨⚖️ that it pushes #innovation#offshore while recognizing that we need rules
Scores of Critical Lab Tests Fall Into a Regulatory Void. The #FDA Is Trying to Close It.
Lab-developed tests like #prenatal screenings have become increasingly popular, all while escaping the bulk of federal scrutiny over #marketing and accuracy. Now, the FDA is beginning the process of imposing regulations on these kinds of tests.
🚨 SEC asks for emergency order to freeze Binance US assets anywhere in the world
➥ CNBC
"The Securities and Exchange Commission filed an emergency motion in Washington, D.C. federal court Tuesday evening, asking a judge to freeze the assets of Binance's U.S. platform and repatriate both fiat currency and crypto held by the service's customers."
"The order also compels Binance's founder, Changpeng Zhao, to "show cause why a preliminary injunction" against Zhao and his two holding companies "should not be entered." The restraining order would also prevent all three entities from destroying evidence."
I'm tired of the #AI bros warning us of superintelligence again and again while they absolutely make sure that the exact future they are warning us about appears. They want to create a mote so that only they can do the research and productize the #MachineLearning work without taking into account the actual harm that current systems might face. They don't want to solve those problems, only the imaginary problems. Look over there and not here.
“Some big companies have clearly shown that they are ‘ethically challenged’, this is an important reason to why we need #regulation. Regulation like the #DMA, can also level the playing field and create a #fair marketplace”, says @jon at the tech.eu Summit in Brussels.