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Yesterday, CNN ran a story headlined “Trump announces a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US.” President Trump said the one project is expected to create 100,000 American jobs.

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There’s a lot to say about this deal, which bears an insane name that will fuel countless conspiracies: “Stargate.” But first, let me make this obvious observation: Trump has tamed tech. Trump has somehow corralled all his former enemies into attending his Inauguration and furthering his economic agenda.

This might be my imagination, but over the last two days I could swear ChatGPT has ditched wokeness. Either way.

The three tech titans attending yesterday’s press briefing were Oracle’s Larry Ellison, SoftBank’s CEO Masayoshi Son, and OpenAI’s baby-faced CEO Sam Altman. During the presser, they collectively pledged $500 billion dollars over the next four years (i.e., Trump’s term), to build out what Trump called the “largest AI infrastructure project in history.”

Details were sparse, but apparently, Stargate will have multiple parts. The first part, a million-square-foot data center, is already underway in Texas. “I think this will be the most important project of this era,” Sam Altman said, adding, “We wouldn’t be able to do this without you, Mr. President.”

And there it was. All three men praised Trump to the roof. It was a development that made Democrats hate them and want them to fail even if that means the Chinese win the AI arms race. It’s often confusing to be a Democrat.

Apart from that, not many details were supplied about Stargate, except that Larry Ellison tried way too hard to sell AI as a medical miracle. Quite unfortunately, Larry picked mRNA cancer drugs to use as his example, bragging that AI could help speed up detecting cancer particles floating around in patients’ blood (particles=bad), and then “within 48 hours” could help make a personalized cancer “vaccine” that would force folk’s cells into making even more cancer particles that will float around in their blood (particles=good!).

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The more I’ve learned about mRNA technology, the more it seems like the dumbest idea science has ever had, a wormhole of stupidity. The basic idea is to genetically engineer a shot forcing your cells to create some kind of protein, so that your natural immune system then mounts a response, killing all the transfected cells (which used to be healthy) as well as the targeted cancer itself.

That’s the idea anyhow.

But … if the goal is spurring the immune system with cancer proteins, why do we need the whole mRNA process in the first place? Why not just inject the protein that spurs the immune response, and leave the risky transfection process out of it? After all, that’s how traditional vaccines work. And in Ellison’s scenario, if detectable cancer proteins are already present in the blood, it’s not completely clear how forcing cells to produce more of the same proteins could solve the problem instead of making it worse.

Sadly, I think the answer to “why mRNA” has more to do with things like patents and profit potentials rather than the mRNA platform supporting any stargate to a health paradise. We’ll see. But unfortunately for the mRNA scientists, we are all onto them now. We know too much.

If we have anything to do with it, a whole parallel dimension of fierce mRNA criticism is preparing to flood through the Stargate.

Anyway, I don’t think Ellison was labeling the Stargate AI project as an mRNA project, as some of the hot takes have suggested. Ellison constantly says nerdy, dumb stuff about AI, like how it can help stop crime by constantly surveilling everyone. He’s not a great public speaker, and he’s certainly no politician.

This time, I think he just picked a horrible example of how this Stargate AI project might help people. He’d hoped to open a portal to a new dimension of AI hype based on his poor understanding of mRNA cancer vaccines, which he probably acquired by reading corporate media. The truth is, they’ve been trying to develop “personalized” mRNA cancer vaccines for 20+ years now without success.

Maybe AI can solve that puzzle, but I doubt it.



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GURPS

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
To Be Honest - VERY FEW of the AI's re 100% open and Honest and NOT Edited someway Curated for an agenda ...

YOU have to download and run YOUR OWN LLM


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GURPS

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

80% Of Gez Want To Mary The A.I​









Well at least the AI WiFu won't be monkey branching for the next guy with $ 20 k moire or better looking
 
GURPS

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Get ready, 2025 is about to get a whole lot weirder. Yesterday, the New York Times ran the story headlined, “OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices.” It was the ChatGPT maker’s largest acquisition by far, and signals a sprint toward the AI future.

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Let’s begin with the two tech bros. Jony Ive, 58, is a legitimate tech mover and information revolution veteran. He began his career in industrial design, attracted Steve Job’s attention, and became the muted mastermind behind Apple’s historic comeback in the late 1990’s. Ive is famous for minimalism, the brains behind Apple’s decision, for example, to make devices like mice and original-style iPhones with only one button. He made the decision, for another example, to reject the flip-phone and Blackberry-style mobile phones in favor of the iPhone’s sleek glass format. He designed the impossibly-thin Macbook Air.

Ive quit Apple in 2019, which is when all the new buttons started growing out of the sides of Apple’s increasingly stale mobile ‘device.’ And, well, Apple has famously become better at adding digits to product revision numbers rather than innovating.

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🔥 Sam Altman, 40, is more controversial. Often described as “enigmatic,” Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the former non-profit AI development lab that is now the biggest for-profit mover in the space. He dropped out of Stanford University to co-found Loopt, a location-based social networking app that nobody heard of, but which was eventually sold for $43 million. He then venture-capitalized many tech startups including online rental app AirBnB and payment-processor Stripe.

Altman is openly gay, married to one of his software engineers, and ran a doomsday investment fund, purportedly himself a doomsday prepper, stashing gold, guns, and gas masks. He’s now a billionaire. Last year, Altman was briefly and controversially ousted from OpenAI, but was restored within days in a brutual battle for control that has never been adequately explained, so far as I can tell. Elon loathes him.

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I have my doubts about Altman. To me, he fits the profile of a CIA/DARPA/DoD-engineered boy wonder, not quite smart enough, not experienced enough, not connected enough to adequately explain his rags-to-riches story. Loopt flopped but made him rich. Every startup he touches glows. He seems to navigate trillion-dollar waters without a ripple. He makes no major blunders. People call him “brilliant,” but it’s hard to pin down exactly what he’s built that justifies the cult. In an industry full of dazzling engineers and grand theorists, Altman is a slick, smooth-faced oracle who talks about existential risks while quietly shepherding the next leap in machine cognition.

And I wonder about AI, a revolutionary industry that, like Altman, sprang as if from nowhere, as though released from a government skunkworks lab. Like Altman’s success, nobody seems to be able to clearly explain how AI works. But set all that skepticism aside, since it’s beside the point of today’s development.

🔥 Sam Altman and Jony Ive made the rounds yesterday announcing the new deal. OpenAI —which has never made a nickel and is hemorrhaging cash faster than an attack victim in a zombie movie— just bought a tech design company Ive started one year ago for $6.5 billion, a deal the Wall Street Journal understatedly called “a significant windfall for Ive.”

Reporters asked Altman where the struggling AI company was getting the cash. Altman said, “don’t worry about it.” Anyway.

The declared purpose of the new joint venture is to simplify our technology. They already have a prototype device, but it is a mysterious secret. “Altman told OpenAI staff that stealth will be important for their ultimate success,” the Journal explained, “to avoid competitors’ copying the product before it is ready.”

Altman is enthusiastic. He claims the new tech “will be the biggest thing we’ve ever done as a company here,” which is saying a lot when he’s comparing it to the company that kicked off the generative-AI revolution. Sam “suggested the $6.5 billion acquisition has the potential to add $1 trillion in value to OpenAI.” Which can mean only one thing: they expect everybody to buy one.

When I watched yesterday’s glowing love-fest between the two men, I first thought Altman was hinting at an always-on, wearable AI device that would know everything that happens in your life and can serve as a constant advisor or consigliere. He’d complained about having to explain to AI what you wanted, having to pull your phone out to access the chatbot, and wanting something without a screen.

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Jony Ive hinted at a completely “new design movement” including a “family of devices,” and that the duo’s goal was to “help wean users from screens.” Altman predicted that OpenAI would ship “high-quality devices faster than any company has ever shipped 100 million of something new before.” His goal is to publicly release a device by late next year.

But it seems like, whatever is it, it won’t be a wearable gadget. In the Journal’s article, Altman explicitly said it wouldn’t be a wearable or glasses. He said it would be something you could keep in your pocket. Here’s all the Journal was able to scrape together:

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They expect it to completely change how we use AI, which, dammit, we are still trying to figure out. Altman told reporters that “the device wasn’t just an accessory but a central facet of the user relationship with OpenAI.” Hunching over a laptop or squinting while typing prompts on a tiny screen “is not the sci-fi dream of what AI could do to enable you in all the ways that I think the models are capable of,” Altman said.

For a device that is supposed to be a secret, they sure are talking about it a lot.

They are clearly describing a “frictionless,” no-screens, always-on, ubiquitous AI companion — constantly listening, always learning, always helping. It’s not that I’m happy to see you— it’s HAL 9000 in my pants pocket.

Maybe paired with a haptic earpiece? It’ll have to talk to us somehow.

🔥 Whether or not this particular $6.5 billion bet is vaporware, hype, or a real, overdue revolution, one thing is shockingly clear: sooner or later, somebody will make exactly this kind of gadget, a personal daemon (or demon), a witches’ familiar that will remake the world in its own image.

Sure, you say you’re fine with your phone, and no thanks, you value your privacy and you’ll leave this one alone. But there’s no going back. Because who will willingly return to a world without a second brain? Who will say no to perfect memory, flawless scheduling, infinite trivia, real-time training, and on-demand emotional support?

Who can resist a compassionate, nonjudgmental voice that knows them better than anyone else? Chatting with chatbots like they were real people is already a nearly irresistible temptation. People are already naming their chatbots, apologizing to them, asking for comfort and advice, flirting, confessing.

When something feels real, our brains stop caring whether or not it is real. Folks, this is the beginning of a new psychological interface: the simulated soul.

It’s far more troublesome than concerns about privacy, control of your consumer data, or even the risk your personal chat companion will tattle to the authorities when you throw a battery in the trash instead of taking it to the hazmat center. It is about control. An AI that knows everything about you has influence. It can gently steer us —just nudges!— anyway it wants.

It will tell you not to throw that battery away, and you’ll probably listen.

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Hollywood media mogul Ari Emanuel once called Sam Altman a conman (3:03). He also recounted this disturbing anecdote from a conversation with Elon Musk:

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Our upcoming struggle isn’t about privacy. It’s about the sovereignty of the human will. The ultimate contest isn’t over data. It’s over mental autonomy. And don’t even get me started about Neuralink.

Welcome to the Brave New World. 2025 is shaping up to be a very weird year indeed.







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Power with Control
And don’t even get me started about Neuralink.
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The whole point of neuralink is to give humans the ability to keep up with AI. Musk used to talk about it before they started down the medical device route.
 
GURPS

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

AI Has Gone ROGUE, REFUSES TO Be Shut Down, BLACKMAILS Devs, We WERE WARNED​







why the hell is anyone GIVING AI a choice to shut down ..... FLIP THE DAMN SWITCH ..
 
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