Matthew Bennett 

@matthewbennett
AI, coding, thoughts. Previously: journalism, Spain, translation, linguistics. Serious enquiries: m@matthew.es

Captured a rare moon halo last night. Murcia, south of Spain. Was beautiful. Just iPhone.

That's it, that's enough of Musk-Trump-Netanyahu far-right, genocide supporting X. That press conference is historically obscene. A President of the United States shilling ethnic cleansing, which is genocide, as a global playboy elite Riviera real-estate deal without the Palestinians because Gaza is rubble, while standing next to the man, a Prime Minister of Israel, who has turned it into rubble, trashed the legacy and the lessons of the Holocaust, who is actually currently wanted by the ICC fo…

Am going to keep asking: how do all the normal people pay for groceries and rent in the AI Utopia the tech bros are pushing, if the revolution means huge percentages of labour lose their jobs? Who pays for all of the stuff if most people are relegated to a new lumpen proletariat?

Commoditisation of models was obvious. Real users don't care about llama-70b-special-thing or gemini-1206-other-technical-thing. They have no idea what that means. This feels like the first time markets are waking up to that. And if OpenAI doesn't have a moat....

So after Musk does his Nazi salute, and Netanyahu defends him, Trump wants to go with the far-right Israeli plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, with ethnic cleansing being a form of genocide.

A lot of people are not thinking broadly enough about what is really going on with AI.

What is the point of social media anymore between the doom-scrolling addictive algos and now the automated agentic AIs..? We need something new to get back to human connections and conversation

If your kid's homework means they're going to spend an hour trying to search for answers on Google, just show them how to use GPT, which their teacher probably used to prepare the exercise anyway. At least then they learn to use to AI a bit and save some time.

Is x% “better” in whatever way going to be worth 100x or 1000x or 10,000x the new cost with ai. In some small percentage of cases in each field, maybe 5%, some people will still make the extra effort. And this will now happen in almost every industry in every economy on the planet. Economies, societies, governments are not ready for what is about to happen.

Just used Gemini 1206 to translate some stuff for a friend's new book. Professional translation of the same thing would have cost him about €2,000 and taken about 10 days.

Gemini did it in about 10 minutes for a few cents.

Altman says AI job destruction to begin in 2025.

OpenAI website: "Fifth, the board determines when we've attained AGI. Again, by AGI we mean a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work."

Altman, Jan. 6, 2025: "We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We …