| ▲ | follow_the_mone 6 hours ago |
| We remind people that Noema Magazine is owned by Berggruen Institute: https://berggruen.org/ Which is an AI booster: https://berggruen.org/projects/ai-visionaries You cannot read these articles posing as human interest without following the money. |
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| ▲ | Aurornis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| What does “AI booster” mean? From this comment and username I thought you meant they were funded by AI companies or doing marketing for them, but the most I see is that they filmed some interviews with filmmakers about AI? The about page says this: > In the cultural realm, Studio B is networking frontier technologists with Hollywood auteurs and science fiction authors who will shape the next narrative. The organization was founded in 2010. Asking filmmakers about AI seems pretty on brand for their goal of talking about frontier technologies intersecting with Hollywood, does it not? Is there some definition of “AI booster” that I’m not aware of? Or does it really just mean anyone who talks about AI in a positive light? I don’t see any smoking gun financial incentive connection here where they’re getting paid to “boost AI” |
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| ▲ | bonoboTP 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'd guess it just means they failed some moral purity test. | | | |
| ▲ | wyre 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > networking frontier technologists Means they are invested in AI companies > shape the next narrative With pro AI narratives because they have an interest in pro-AI |
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| ▲ | Muromec 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Thank you for your service to community, dear stranger. o7 |
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| ▲ | overgard 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Thank you! HN doesn't usually do specialty/novelty accounts but I've very excited about this one. |
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| ▲ | nephihaha 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > You cannot read these articles posing as human interest without following the money. Thank you for that, and look who one of their speakers is? Hardcore technocrat and transhumanist Mr. Harari! You can read his opinions about transhumanism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in "Homo Deus" and on the WEF website. |
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| ▲ | epistasis 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Ah yes, any funding source invalidates all the arguments.... Does this article seem like an AI boosting article? Perhaps exactly the opposite? I dislike this article intensely, and disagree with it, but its lot because somehow the Berggruen Institute is shadow pushing AI here |
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| ▲ | Grombobulous 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The funding source is incredibly important when it is relevant to the content of the article. This is why reputable journalistic outlets disclose financial ties to entities they report on, even if the connection is barely relevant. NPR will tell you about every ad buy that relates to their reporting. This source could have and should have mentioned this connection in a disclosure, and it would not have detracted from the article. But the fact that it is effectively hidden is a detriment to the level of trust the reader can put into it. | | |
| ▲ | Aurornis 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > This is why reputable journalistic outlets disclose financial ties to entities they report on Where is the financial tie between this organization and the AI companies? The throwaway account's comment above implied some financial connection, but when I clicked the links all I saw was a couple videos where one of their other journalistic outlets had interviewed some filmmakers about AI. I don't see anything to support this accusation that they failed to disclose reporting about some financial investment in AI companies. | | |
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| ▲ | neetle 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Counterpoint - “look at how effective AI is, it’s made everyone realise their career is for nothing!” | | |
| ▲ | fitzroy 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Timeless tactic! "The Power Mac G4 is so fast that it is classified as a supercomputer by the US government, and we are prohibited from exporting it to over 50 nations worldwide," Jobs said the Apple Expo, CNN reported in September 1999.
(edit: added link) https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-steve-jobs-us-export-c... | | |
| ▲ | ben_w 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I remember that. It was export banned, wasn't it? A gigaflop being enough for a cruise missile visual guidance or something like that? | | |
| ▲ | Spoom 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I remember those days. Lots of software was also export restricted, but the Internet being what it is, I doubt those restrictions mattered much to folks who wanted effective encryption, who would likely just say they were in the US. |
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