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COMMENT: On Sat­ur­day, May 2, John (a Sil­i­con Val­ley AI pro­fes­sion­al) dis­coursed about AI.

The recent expe­ri­ence of Crane (a car rental firm) that had its data base erased by an AI was front and cen­ter in the dis­cus­sion.

Top­ics of Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Include: AI’s cod­ing poten­tial and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of suc­ces­sive­ly advanced AI cod­ing; What types of data will be going into build­ing LLMs?; The conun­drum of peo­ple using AI’s that aren’t specif­i­cal­ly tai­lored for their indi­vid­ual needs; The issue of AI’s tar­get­ing indi­vid­u­als deemed “most like­ly to pay” for high­er online pric­ing; The pos­si­bil­i­ty of AI’s being used by “bad actors” for var­i­ous kinds of may­hem; Google employ­ees’ let­ter to the firm’s CEO implor­ing the lim­it­ing of mil­i­tary access to the tech­nol­o­gy; Anthropic’s lim­it­ing of cor­po­rate access to its lat­est tech­nol­o­gy due to the pos­si­bil­i­ty of the LLM’s iden­ti­fy­ing and exploit­ing secu­ri­ty flaws in the company’s archi­tec­ture.

NB: John’s over­all polit­i­cal views are not nec­es­sar­i­ly Mr. Emory’s. Dave does not under­stand the LLM tech­nol­o­gy and feels that dis­cus­sion of that dom­i­nant and emer­gent ele­ment should be dis­cussed by some­one famil­iar with AI’s.