Gold and silver, God and glitter. CEO @human_intel_co
New York
- Tweets 5,455
- Following 308
- Followers 4,714
- Likes 7,611
Peter Johnston retweeted
BREAKING: Michael Burry says OpenAI and Anthropic's AI safety warnings are fake hype to cover for slowing growth ahead of their IPOs.
"we are so awesome it could become dangerous"
321
1,278
10,822
485,929
Peter Johnston retweeted
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
3,431
12,355
72,181
9,580,265
Peter Johnston retweeted
Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change.
Not saying it's necessarily uninteresting or wrong per se but let’s keep things in perspective and hear from the full range of expertise across the ecosystem!
354
671
7,086
865,741
You can go from heads down stealth for 9 months to meeting two silicon valley legends on the same day. Cool.
2
1
8
951
Peter Johnston retweeted
Leandro Paredes should be banned from international football for life viciously assaulting Spanish players after the final whistle.
Indefensible thuggery and criminality.
3,391
48,506
240,718
5,408,777
Truly astonishing how much Google have fumbled the bag with Gemini. It’s unusable.
Actually needed it today as was running very low on charge for my car. Sends me to two completely wrong locations in Westchester. I then tell it it’s wrong and it replies “you’re right, I’ve repeatedly given you incorrect information”.
How did Google who built THE maps product fuck this up so badly? @GeminiApp
598
“with the addictive feeling of false progress.”
A near perfect articulation of what’s going on in enterprise AI by Alex Karp.
My team and I have witnessed what could be described as a collective insanity inside prospective clients where they frequently say ‘we’ll just build it ourselves’ with zero technical experience, only delusions.
As a result we see the best companies buying our software and the ones struggling opted to build. Some of them at least return 3 months later and are like ‘yeah that got complicated quickly’.
Our bet is there will need to be 2-5 years of data infrastructure improvements to yield any path to AI working reliably and at scale in enterprise.
Absolutely brilliant from Palantir:
"Tokenmaxxing hijacks your value orientation and decreases your institutional fortitude and intelligence. The pursuit of high token usage incentivizes disposable scripts over robust software — with the addictive feeling of false progress. There is a reason why those selling tokens refuse to charge based on value."
3
627
Love this guy 😅. Probably the only lucid CEO not blowing smoke right now on AI.
Anyone who has spent even a minute working deep in enterprise AI knows its barely working at scale. Why the fuck else would OAI and Anthropic be piling billions into sending engineers into their client companies...
Early innings... ⚾️
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Anthropic's Dario Amodei:
"Most of the things they talk about in public are running on Palantir."
"He's gone from being way behind, to being ahead."
"I'll tell you—he believes what he's saying."
Via @CNBC
1
7
1,495
Peter Johnston retweeted
Starcloud has been selected by @NASA as one of 37 companies (the only space-data center company) to advance Moon and Mars technology! 🚀 @Starcloud_
msn.com/en-us/news/technolog…
34
29
276
39,817
Peter Johnston retweeted
Starmer resigns - he has been a truly disgraceful Prime Minister.
I do not believe him to be a good man or a patriot.
He has deliberately and rapidly accelerated the destruction of our Britain, of our home.
History will not remember him kindly, nor should it.
I sat in Parliament, looking him in the eye, listening to him attempting to justify his decision to block a national inquiry into the mass rape of young British girls.
I will never forgive him. For that, and so much else.
What comes next, I do not know.
Whatever that is, Restore Britain will be ready to offer the British people a democratic route out - a better way, the only way.
But Starmer is gone.
And that is a good thing.
Enjoy it.
2,596
17,859
134,141
1,656,923
True.
CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.
So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have to happen to get sustainable results from agents.
“Look I made this awesome product prototype”. Yes but you didn’t have to review the code before it went into production and fix a bunch of issues.
“Look I generated a contract”. Yes but you didn’t verify all the terms before it goes out to the counterparty and didn’t have to wire up all the past contracts to work with.
The best thing you can do as a CEO is to use AI a *ton* to figure out the real implications of agents in the enterprise, and come out the other side with an appreciation for both the upside and the real work that goes into them.
2
337
Peter Johnston retweeted
I’m super excited to share that we have signed a contract with @SpaceX @Starlink to integrate its mini laser terminals onto our satellites for high bandwidth, low latency connectivity!
Starcloud is excited to announce that we will integrate 50 @SpaceX @Starlink Mini Laser terminals across 25+ satellites. Each of the @Starcloud_ satellites will carry two Starlink Mini Laser terminals, and the first hardware is expected on orbit within one year.
Starlink Mini Laser terminals, the same laser crosslink technology that SpaceX developed for its Starlink constellation, provide up to 25 Gbps of continuous intersatellite connectivity at distances up to 4,000 km and are capable of higher link speeds at shorter distances. The terminals enable direct optical links between Starcloud satellites and the Starlink constellation using laser light, eliminating the need for Starcloud to send data directly through bandwidth-constrained ground stations.
101
239
2,671
278,470
