C'è qualcuno - namely: Altman - perfino più pazzo di Musk. Immaginiamo che spendano tutti i dollari del mondo in un datacenter grosso come la Groenlandia (dopo l'annessione). Alla fine cosa otterranno? I limiti della ragione, umana o automatica che sia, sono invalicabili tanto quanto quelli fisici. L'umanità consiste proprio nello stare dentro questi limiti, ed anche l'AI è utile finché li rispetta.
Questo è il momento buono per mandare gli yankee pazzi a quel paese. Certo, ci vorrà qualcosa di più di quel ditino alzato che si chiama AI Act. Ci vorrà un modello di sviluppo europeo ben supportato da politiche e investimenti. Buona giornata, G. On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 14:25, Alberto Cammozzo via nexa <[email protected]> wrote: > > Scusate... Ecco il seguito. > > [...] > > Trump’s AI policy moves on his first two days in office and remarks at the > White House on Tuesday showed him positioning himself as a strong supporter > of the U.S. tech industry — while turning away from the Biden > administration’s stance that AI technology requires both support and > oversight. Biden’s executive order, some of which has been implemented by > changes at federal agencies, focused on preventing risks such as algorithms > that spread bias or AI assistants that could help terrorists build bioweapons. > > “AI seems to be very hot,” Trump said at the White House on Tuesday. “It > seems to be the thing that a lot of smart people are looking at very > strongly.” > > Trump was joined by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison and > SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son who announced “Stargate,” a joint venture that > will seek to spend as much as $500 billion over the next four years to build > as many as 20 new data centers to support AI projects. > > The warehouselike facilities, stuffed with thousands of powerful and > electricity-guzzling computer chips, are essential to developing and running > AI software like that behind ChatGPT. A boom in data center construction is > straining the power grid in states across the United States as companies > including Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta have spent billions of dollars > on new facilities. But AI leaders such as Altman say many more of the > facilities must be built for AI technology to keep advancing. > > “I think this will be the most important project of this era,” Altman said at > the White House on Tuesday. “We wouldn’t be able to do this without you, Mr. > President,” he said, turning to Trump. Son said that SoftBank decided to move > ahead with the Stargate project because of Trump’s election victory. > > The $500 billion doesn’t include money from the federal government, according > to a person familiar with the project who spoke on the condition of anonymity > to describe plans that haven’t been made public. In addition to the companies > creating Stargate, Dubai investment firm MGX, an investor in OpenAI, will > contribute funding to the project. Microsoft and semiconductor manufacturers > ARM and Nvidia will provide technology, OpenAI said in an announcement. > > Trump’s industry-friendly first moves on tech policy were not unexpected. > > OpenAI has been working on Stargate for months, and its CEO Altman had been > pitching politicians on the idea of a major push to build up AI > infrastructure a year ago. > > Prominent Silicon Valley executives and investors, including some who > contributed to Trump’s reelection, had long railed against President Joe > Biden’s executive order instituting guardrails for AI technology. > > Although certain industry leaders like Altman said some regulation was > necessary, critics said the government would only get in the way of the > technology’s development and prevent smaller, younger companies from being > able to compete with more established ones. Months before the election, Trump > allies were already drafting an executive order of their own that would > review “unnecessary” regulations and launch “Manhattan Projects” to develop > military technology. > > Despite Trump’s more industry-friendly approach to AI, his emerging policy is > not a complete reversal of his predecessor’s. Biden in the final days of his > administration directed federal agencies to speed up the development of AI > data center projects on federal land. > > Trump said on Tuesday that he supported that policy. “That sounds to me like > it’s something that I would like. I’d like to see federal lands opened up for > data centers. I think they’re going to be very important,” he said. > > Netchoice, a lobbying group with members including Google, Meta and Amazon, > welcomed Trump repeal of the Biden-era AI rules. “His orders rolling back > regulations on U.S. energy production and ending Biden’s artificial > intelligence (AI) red tape wishlist are critical for America’s global > leadership in technological development,” Netchoice said in a post on X. > Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. > > Proponents of AI regulation have argued that it is needed not only to ward > off potential harms from the technology but also to support its economic > development and adoption by providing people with confidence that AI is safe > to use. > > “A politically-motivated repeal with no thoughtful replacement is > self-defeating for our country and dangerous for our people and the world,” > Alondra Nelson, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a > liberal think tank, who also worked on technology policy in the Biden > administration, said in a statement. “This will leave the American public > unprotected from the risks and harms of AI and, therefore, unable to take up > the benefits it might bring.” > > Deborah Raji, a Mozilla fellow and AI researcher at the University of > California at Berkeley, said that the repeal of Biden’s executive order, in > combination with the Supreme Court curbing federal agencies’ power to set and > institute regulations last year and Trump’s ambitions to empower business > leaders, create a “Wild West era” for AI products. “They’re going to be > empowered to build models and throw them everywhere, without a lot of regard > to safety,” she said. > > AI companies have been spending huge amounts of money buying computer chips > and building new data centers to house them. The surge in data center > construction has also pushed up estimates for how much electricity the U.S. > will need to generate to power them, leading to some coal power plants that > had been slated to be closed to be kept online. > > > > On 22 January 2025 14:21:37 CET, Alberto Cammozzo via nexa > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/21/stargate-500-billion-trump-ai/> >> >> President Donald Trump set about defining his new administration’s >> technology policy Tuesday, hosting industry CEOs at the White House to >> announce a massive private-sector investment in infrastructure for >> artificial intelligence that could reach $500 billion. >> >> The announcement came after Trump on his Inauguration Day rescinded a >> sweeping 2023 executive order on AI from his predecessor Joe Biden that >> introduced regulations on companies developing AI intended to prevent the >> technology causing harm. >>
