When AI manipulates free speech, censorship is not the solution. Better code is.
Every issue is easy — if you just ignore the facts. And Glenn Greenwald has now given us a beautiful example of this eternal, and increasingly vital, truth.
In his Substack, Glenn attacks the Facebook whistleblower (he doesn’t call her that; he calls her a quote-whistleblower-unquote), Frances Haugen, for being an unwitting dupe of the Vast Leftwing Conspiracy that is now focused so intently on censoring free speech. To criticize what Facebook has done, in Glenn’s simple world, is to endorse the repeal of the First Amendment. To regulate Facebook is to start us down the road, if not to serfdom, then certainly to a Substack-less world.
But all this looks so simple to Glenn, because he’s so good at ignoring how technology matters — to everything, and especially to modern media. Glenn doesn’t do technology. Read More
Daily Archives: October 30, 2021
DeepMind and Alphabet: who needs markets?
DeepMind, the artificial intelligence company founded in 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman, and acquired by Alphabet in 2014 for $650 million, has published its financial results, revealing what might be politely called a “creative accounting” issue.
In principle, it all sounds very promising: after a few years, DeepMind is now apparently profitable, with revenues of $1.13 billion in 2020, three times 2019’s $361 million, in the face of relatively restrained expenses that rose from $976 million in 2019 to $1.06 billion in 2020. Seen in this light, the picture is one of a cutting-edge company that, after years of heavy investment and significant losses, achieves profitability thanks to strong revenue growth and relative containment of its expenses. At last, Alphabet can put DeepMind among the companies that, under its umbrella, generate revenue. From red to black in just a few years. When all is said and done, it is fairly common for pioneering companies like this one to often spend long periods investing and incurring in heavy losses. Read More
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