By guest author: Nielo Wait, VRZ Champions LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielo/ YouTube: Slopfiction Caveat: These ideas were articulated with the assistance of artificial intelligence — barely legal em dashes and all. Two AIs walk into a bar. Bartender: “Sorry, we don’t serve minors.” As the western AI begins to litigate, the eastern AI forks the bartender, open-sources the quantized version, and shouts, "The next round is on me!" USA, run by lawyers, is trying to legislate its way into AI dominance. China, run by engineers, is shipping fast, hard-coding its own vision of what AI should be. Both are building futures. But the difference in approach is already warping the GenAI landscape — and who gets to shape it. That’s the frame: GenAI isn’t good or bad. It’s just barely legal . Not in the smirking, R-rated LoRa sense. In the sense that the rulebook doesn’t exist yet, the court cases are unresolved, the ethics are wea...
“I wanna be software / The best design / Infinite princess / Computer mind” – Recent tweet by Grimes (singer and on/off girlfriend of Elon Musk) A lot has been made of the FDA’s recent go-ahead for human clinical trials for Elon Musk’s Neuralink . This marks a significant achievement for Musk’s brain-implant startup. Neuralink, founded in 2016, has the potential to greatly improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities. However, Musk also envisions it being used to enhance the cognitive abilities of “anyone who wants” in the medium term. A network of ultra-thin electrodes implanted in the brain will allow for seamless information exchange between humans and machines.(Physicist Stephen Hawking, who lost his ability to speak and ultimately died from ALS in 2018, believed that brain-computer interfaces would be the future of communication.) Eventually, however, Musk sees Neuralink offering a pathway to ...