Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers at Riyadh forum and criticizes Europe's slow adoption of AI.
"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?
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.
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.
Germany. Italy. A bunch of EU states. Some African states. Who am I kidding? Capitalism rules the world, they're just extremely emboldened now. Globally, we need to wake up and show them they've overplayed their hand -- before we can't.
AI is here to serve humanity, that’s where the value is, not to serve only a select few.
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.
Yeah, but Palantir is based on using AI in Saudi Arabia to execute people for being gay. Proof? The computer said so.
And in any other country it boils down to variations of that principle. Justify oppression, discrimination, torture and murder by the "impartial" decision of the computer algorithm fine tuned to make exactly that decision.