Submitted 8 hours ago by AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-ceo-takes-swipe-at-europe-given-up-on-ai-2025-5
“Obviously, the great contradistinction here is Europe, where, you know, it’s like people have given up, and we — I really hope that turns around in Europe,” he added.
Europe is giving up by having ethical, human focused, and probably open source AI/and not firing all their scientists and researchers? Meanwhile the GOP is literally trying to sneak language into a spending bill banning regulation for a decade?
What a pizza shit.
For a brief brief moment I was elated when I parsed the title as ‘Palantir says it has given up on AI’. Then I read the article and was left dejected.
Who cares what Peter Thiel thinks about anything. He’s a leading cause of the plutocracy that is now happening in the United States, and that’s one of his better points.
Even if he was knowledgeable on the subject he has a biased take anyway.
Teal boy has a bias alright, it’s the lense of pure fucking evil and greed.
The only care I have for his opinion is to know it to actively do the opposite at every occasion in an effort to make the world a better place.
The guys views make no sense. He’s basically a socialist who struck it rich and is now a conservative trying to use leftist ideas to attack the left. He still calls him self a socialist.
Surprise - people saying things you like are not your friends any more than people saying things you hate.
Surprise - people saying things you hate are not your enemies any more than people saying things you like.
Surprise - the words “socialist” and “capitalist” have no useful meaning at all. Specific solutions devised and offered as part of something “socialist” or “capitalist” are all over the place of the choice of instruments, with nothing uniting them along those lines other than how cover art aesthetics unite books.
And surprise - people saying ugly and dumb things might have a better idea of what they are doing than people who seem very fine. No connection at all.
I think Alex Karp and his colleagues are quite close to having a bunch of Starlinks and AI-powered combat drone networks covering all the globe. Maybe with some commercial stuff working similarly. The future might be theirs. Yep, that’s a very raw and stupid application of computing power and it’s dystopian, but what gets deployed IRL matters more than elegance.
Also this is in the context of USA giving Israel a kick in the butt, so maybe it’s not such bad news that they are getting involved with Arab monarchies and not, say, with Turkey or Russia.
this dude should really choke on it.
That guy should get a haircut and get a proper job.
there was this microblogmeme where the joke was like “u need the ai to do your work because you’re too shit? do u need it to do your art for you because you can’t? u need it to fuck your wife for u also? fucking loser” and i think it’d fit here but couldn’t find it :(
I wish we would have given up on it … but the shit is still creeping in everwhere.
Sound advice would be to adopt the opposite position of anything that sociopath says.
death is not good enough for ai people
We should just wall off Florida (all my world improvement plans involve walling off Florida), stick them in there and then have the AI administer their lives, and see how long they last.
this is one THiels spy tech companies.
Given up? I am not sure we even tried and with good reason, it’s a dumb technology based entirely on hype.
What do you mean? Everything I own is connected to the blockchain and I have NFTs hanging on all of my walls.
Hikuro93@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I mean, every apologist and defender of capitalist apocalyptic hellscapes will have that view, sadly. So long as it makes them an extra buck it’s good for them, consequences to society or environment be damned.
As an European who does advocate and see value in the use of AI, but not at any cost, I’ll take his opinion as a compliment. As they say, “I want AI to do my dishes while I create art, not for me to do the dishes while the AI produces insta-art”.
And eventually if AI gets capitalistically out of hand and leads to many people in service-based economies to poverty and unhappiness we’re sure to see a revolution to restore balance, as many times in history when a few elites made things unbearable for the rest of the population. AI is here to serve humanity, that’s where the value is, not to serve only a select few.
AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
I agree, and as I keep trying to point out to people in the U.S., I’m pretty sure the reason Trump is not even giving GOP loyalists emergency disaster money when something happens in their state, is because there’s nothing left.
He literally put all of America’s eggs in one basket because he (and Peter Thiel) thought/think if they just deregulate everything and keep throwing money at it as fast as possible they will win, and other countries will be coming to us to buy our AI.
Tbf they are definitely planning to use it for evil, not to make humanity better, but I still don’t see why anybody would buy AI tech from the U.S.
I am wondering what happened in Brussels though, that made them say they’re considering some deregulation.
Trump was also very pissy at them, so wondering what this is all about
echodot@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
No what happened is that all of his backers want him to go after the EU because the EU is constantly suing American megacorps for breaking of local laws, and they don’t like that.
Trump is just doing their bidding, he isn’t actually angry at the EU, except because he has the vocabulary of a rather dim 8-year-old, everything is “nasty” and “evil” and “bad”.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Mostly right now it is here to torture humanity with low quality slop. It literally can’t do the things people claim it is capable of doing, no matter for whose benefit. It is just that some people benefit even if the output quality is significantly lower as long as they have enough people convinced that it is a viable replacement.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
As with everything it’s grey rather than black and white. It can do the things people claim it can do but only up to a point. All of the people claiming it can run a business on its own selling you a lie, but that’s not to say that it can’t do some tasks within a business.
For example it can code pretty effectively, as long as the application is relatively small in total file size, anything large it tends to get lost in.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The AI field is more than just LLM and generative AI. Like models that can detect cancer in scans are not LLMs or generative AI.