No no. I'm absolutely certain that the Trump administration considers birthright citizenship to be a problem—when it's non-white babies that are getting citizenship.
They need to stop beating around the bush and just say that.
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Same places as usual: Academia and open source foundations.
That's where 99% of all advancements in AI come from. You don't actually think Big AI is paying as many people to do computer science and mathematics research as all the universities in the world (with computer science programs)?
It's the same shit as always: Big companies commercialize advancements and discoveries made by scientist and researchers from academia (mostly) and give almost nothing back.
Big AI has partnerships with tons of schools and if it weren't for that, they wouldn't be advancing the technology as fast as they are. In fact, the only reason why many of these discoveries are made public at all is because of the agreements with the schools that require the discoveries/papers be published (so their school, professors, researchers, and students can get credit).
Like I was saying before: You don't need a trillion dollars in data centers to do this stuff. Almost all the GPUs and special chips being used (and preordered, sigh) by Big AI are being used to serve their customers (at great expense). Not for training.
Training used to be expensive but so many advancements have been made this is no longer the case. Instead, most of the resources being used in "AI data centers" (and research) is all about making inference more efficient. That's the step that comes after you give an AI a prompt.
Training a super modern AI model can be done with a university's data center or a few hundred thousand to a few million dollars of rented GPUs/compute. It doesn't even take that long!
Generative AI improves at a ridiculously fast rate. In nearly all the ways you could think of: Training, inference (e.g. figuring out user intent), knowledge, understanding, and weirder, fluffier stuff like "creativity" (the benchmarks of which are dubious, BTW).
It's made from faux.
Republicans! Your right wing media is already trying to pick your candidates for you.
Which is normal, actually. You pretty much always believe whatever TF they say and get mad at whoever TF they want. That's how right wing media works. Which group are you mad at today, again? It's Sunday, so... Transgender people, I think? It'll be immigrants on Mondays and Muslims, specifically on Tuesdays. Wednesdays are for Democrats, Thursdays for "the liberal media" (which doesn't actually exist; all major commercial news is owned by billionaires), and Fridays are for human interest stories like "the plight of the White South African". Saturdays are reserved for total bullshit (e.g. election fraud, "vaccines are bad!") and conspiracy theories (e.g. Seth Rich, Pizzagate).
Anyway, which would you prefer?
- A shitstain on the carpet
- A shitstain on the couch
Neither will prioritize what you care about but they'll both tell you they're going to protect your gun rights and that they're such pious Christians—the type that don't believe in caring for the sick, the poor, and hoard wealth. In other words, they're trying to convince you that they're just like you!
Are they right?
Trump has insisted the executive order is aimed at combatting “birth tourism,” immigrants who come to the United States briefly for the purpose of having a child.
This assumes that birth tourism—if it even exists in any non-trivial amount of babies—is a problem. Why would it be a problem? I don't get it.
The administration is always bitching about not enough babies... Make up your damned mind!
...or perhaps be more explicit about your true intentions?
These dudes could do pushups without using their arms.
Um... Where would it go? I've got about 30 models on my machine right now and I download new ones to try out all the time.
Are you suggesting that they'd all just magically disappear one day‽
To be fair, most conservatives since forever have believed that the president really does have some sort of magic oil price controller. That's why they bought so many of those, "I did that!" stickers of Biden and stuck them to gas pumps everywhere.
The president doesn't have a magical power to reduce gas prices but I do believe Trump has proven that a president does have the power to make them go up. Drastically.
Assume all the big AI firms die: Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta. Poof! They're gone!
Here would be my reaction: "So anyway... have you tried GLM-7? It's amazing! Also, there's a new workflow in ComfyUI I've been using that works great to generate..."
Generative AI is here to stay. You don't need a trillion dollars worth of data centers for progress to continue. That's just billionaires living in an AGI fantasy land.
How else do you fernish an apartment‽
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I just looked up the actual numbers and the highest estimate I could find was that there could be about 70,000 babies born to parents on temporary visas each year (Center for Immigration Studies). Other figures suggested around 10,000 at most but I picked the biggest one to make a point:
It doesn't fucking matter.
70,000 births a year in a nation that has 3.5 million births/year is nothing. That's 2% so I'm going to reiterate that nobody should care. It's a stupidly small figure that is of zero consequence.
The only negative connotation one could derive from this figure is founded in racism.