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Larry Ellison wants the U.S. to 'unify all the national data and then feed to AI
- nis0s 1y agoOld news but pertinent based on recent events. Unless “AI” becomes more than a probabilistic model, it’s not going to be anymore useful than any person’s gut instincts trained on millions of years of evolution. Gut instincts, like models which generalize poorly to edge cases, are famously wrong all the time.
- seanicus 1y agoYeah, but it's going to require a lot of thoughtcrime persecution before the rest of the US comes to that conclusion.
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- codingdave 1y agoAnd by national data, he means personal data on its citizens. There are use cases where a centralized data warehouse for government would be helpful, but this is not that.
- LurkandComment 1y agoYeah except they are falsifying national data and no longer collecting a lot of it. Garbage-in...
- supertrope 1y agoImagine Franz Kafka’s The Trial but the protagonist has been detained because a national security AI has hallucinated that they are a threat.
- stackskipton 1y agoSure, because he wants to convince world leaders this is great idea and then sell them a massive Oracle Cloud contract to analyze all this data with AI.
- vkou 1y agoIf he really wants to crack down on fraud, perhaps the government should unify all corporate financial transactions and chat records and feed it to AI. Imagine what interesting things the tax authorities, the regulators, the enforcers of securities law could find that way. And if they find a bunch of false positives, well, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, right?
- malfist 1y agoOh no, AI is supposed to monitor _you_ to keep you on your best behavior. Corporations on the other hand can't let their secretes out that way, and besides the free hand of the market will make them behave. Pesky humans don't have something like the market to keep them in line.
- vkou 1y ago> Pesky humans don't have something like the market to keep them in line. Are you sure? My rent's due tomorrow.
- sunscream89 1y agoThe more I hear of Ellison’s rise, the more I am reminded of Theil’s easily mocked warnings.
- billy99k 1y agoWhether we like it or not, China will igore our IP and data laws, which will give them a clear technological advantage when it comes to AI.
- bigyabai 1y agoI see no indication that US companies are following copyright law when it comes to AI. China might simply be beating us at our own game.
- bigfatkitten 1y agoUS companies routinely ignore these laws, why would China do any different?
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- treetalker 1y agoWild boars could de-unify and feed in a single step.
- DaveZale 1y agosome of these comments get disappeared.
- CrimsnRain 1y agoSo the AI bubble is still gonna be here for the next year and a half I guess, it'd be better if it popped sooner but situations surpass men so we gotta make do
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- ChrisArchitect 1y agoPost from February. Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038190