#Andreessen

[thesecrettimes]

Blockchain Firm Raises Millions From Andreessen Horowitz, Paris Hilton to Help Monetize AI Mashups

Investors Pledge $54 Million to Support Story Protocol’s Plan to Help Copyright Holders in AI Age

U.S. blockchain company Story Protocol has won the support of a group of investors led by American venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz for its plan to help content creators track and monetize their work in the times of generative AI, Bloomberg reported. Against the backdrop of low investor interest in crypto startups, the San Francisco-based tech firm managed to raise $54 million. Among those who offered funding for its project are also Hashed, Endeavor, Samsung Next, TPG Capital founder David Bonderman, and Paris Hilton’s 11:11 media. Besides receiving equity in Story, whose valuation was not disclosed, Andreessen has also obtained the right to buy digital tokens, if the company decides to issue such, although co-founder Jason Zhao indicated that it does not currently intend to do so. The launch of Openai’s Chatgpt and other platforms utilizing artificial intelligence attracted millions of users to AI tools which led to a spike in remixes and mashups online, the report notes. Lawsuits filed by copyright holders have also surged in number. In response to this trend, Story Protocol is building a blockchain-based repository of intellectual property for various types of content, including prose, images and audio, that an author would be able to register their work with and then use connected apps to sell licensing rights. “In a year or two the level of remixed content through GenAI is going to be so much higher,” remarked Story’s other co-founder, Seung-Yoon Lee. He gave an example with a song featuring AI-generated versions of the voices of artists Drake and the Weeknd which became viral before it was shut down by Universal Music Group. At the same time, Lee also pointed out: You can’t go and cease and desist everything. The investment will allow Story Protocol to launch its blockchain technology in the first half of 2024, Jason Zhao noted. It comes despite a venture capital drought in the crypto space with funding for startups declining since prices of digital assets dropped last year and amid an ongoing regulatory crackdown on the industry. Do you think crypto companies should develop more products with AI applications to attract investment? Share your thoughts on the subject in the comments section below. Read the full article

#andreessen #artificial #blockchain #company #Copyright #Crypto #GenAI #hilton #horowitz #Millions #monetize #paris #Protocol’s #TPG #work

[richdadpoor]

Silicon Valley Tech Moguls Want to Build a New City in California

When rich people start buying up land, it’s always fairly disturbing. If and when those same people start telling you that they’re going to use the land to make the world a better place, it’d only be natural to feel certifiably creeped out. Unfortunately, this is what’s been happening in northern California, where some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent bigwigs have snatched up a huge amount of…

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#Andreessen #Andreessen Horowitz #Daniel Gross #Gizmodo #Goldman Sachs #Jan Sramek #Jeffrey Epstein #John Collison #Laurene #Linkedin #Marc Andreessen #Michael Moritz #Midas List #Nat Friedman #Patrick #Reid Hoffman #Tim Flannery #Venture capital

[alicemccombs]

The “Everyone’s a slave except their small inner circle” reality. 👎

#Techno-Oligarch Reality #autocrats #Musk #Thiel #Zuckerberg #Andreessen

[cognitiveinequality]

Lots of people pointing out the absolute nonsense highlights from Andreessen's baloney-filled Tech-Billionaire manifesto (breathlessly recommended by Tumblr's rich hipster CEO ["he must be cool, guys... he went to Burning Man! In 2023!!"] ) but this paragraph sums it up for me.

#tech #marc andreessen #libertarian nonsense #the 'manifesto' document is the tech-bro equivalent #of Jerry Seinfeld whining on the Tonight Show #that ''college kids are too sensitive now'' #and ''you can't joke about anything anymore'' #like... no man #your shit is just played out #congratulations on not evolving with the times grampa #get some new ideas maybe #and quit crying that nobody is still falling for #the mid-tier bullshit you surfed to riches on 25 years ago #🙄🙄🙄 #cog rants

[anti-ai]

The AI-ick:

“We [a16z] believe Artificial Intelligence is our alchemy, our Philosopher’s Stone—we are literally making sand think,” he says. “We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.”

The Takeaway: Just another creep techno-libertarian high on his own supply, screeching about "Communists and Luddites" as he puts his foot down on the gas pedal as hard as he can to make tons of money off so-called AI, the stochastic parrots that will delete jobs and make the world a less trustworthy place. The problem with this particular one? He has $32 billion dollars to pour gasoline on the fire. Fuck off.

#ai generated #anti ai #ai #ai art #fuck ai everything #marc andreessen #404 media #luddite

[indizombie]

The men (and they are mostly men) who are inventing this world of super machine intelligence and biological engineering tend not to believe in religion. But they want to be gods. As the writer and commentator G.K. Chesterton contended in 1932, “The truth is that Irreligion is the opium of the people. Wherever the people do not believe in something beyond the world, they will worship the world. But, above all, they will worship the strongest thing in the world.” Today the strongest thing in the world is Big Technology. Until we stop worshiping at the temple of Saints Peter or Elon or Zuck or Marc, we will be trapped in the future they want.

Jonathan Taplin, ‘How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality’, Vanity Fair

#Jonathan Taplin #Vanity Fair #GK Chesterton #Peter Thiel #Elon Musk #Mark Zuckerberg #Marc Andreessen

[krjpalmer]

BYTE March 1997

This issue’s cover story was about Netscape’s plans to expand beyond “web browsers” (what with Microsoft iterating a web browser of its own). Mark Schlack’s editorial noted this as Netscape “leaning towards openness” and contrasted this with Apple, but in acknowledging Apple’s purchase of NeXT he did conclude “the information-technology community does have an interest in seeing a revived Apple, riding on an reborn OS, that would continue to push the envelope for us all.”

#computer magazine cover #byte #marc andreessen #netscape #cat's cradle

[arcticdementor]

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#twitter #screenshot #marc andreessen #paper straws

[internettoday]

New episode of Tech Newsday, this time covering

Elon biopic

Tesla CyberBeer

Cybertruck

Grimes suing Elon for custody

Mark Andreessen

Tiktok & Palestine

#internet today #youtube #news #elon musk #tech newsday #Tesla #cyber truck #cyberbeer: how can i buy the tesla drink? #cyberbeer #cybertruck #grimes #rick andreessen #palestine #tiktok

[alanshemper]

Fascinating facts about San Francisco cable cars That didn’t stop Andrew Chen, a prominent Silicon Valley tech investor, and Emma Waldron, a startup founder and former Miss Ireland, from picking the base of the rock formation for their wedding party site — and then, reportedly, trashing it. Now, the couple appears to be trying to wipe some records of the event from the internet. Castle Valley councilmember Pamela Gibson found the mess on a walk from her cabin on Sept. 3, the morning after the wedding, she told SFGATE last week. Movers from a Fullerton, California-based rental company were boxing up furniture in a massive truck, which had smashed vegetation and left treads on the soil, she said. Elsewhere, bags of trash and food lay scattered. The councilmember said she was so angry she was shaking. When Gibson returned the next day, the furniture was gone but the site was still scattered with ripped-open trash bags, broken glass and cardboard, she said. Bureau of Land Management rangers ended up having to collect the “abandoned property and refuse,” according to an email from a BLM official sent to Gibson and Castle Valley Mayor Jazmine Duncan on Sept. 7 that was viewed by SFGATE. ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad A ripped-open bag of trash sits in a pile with other refuse from the wedding, two days after, on Sept. 4, 2023. Bureau of Land Management park rangers eventually cleaned the area, per an email from a BLM official. A ripped-open bag of trash sits in a pile with other refuse from the wedding, two days after, on Sept. 4, 2023. Bureau of Land Management park rangers eventually cleaned the area, per an email from a BLM official. Courtesy of Pamela Gibson Chen picks video game and metaverse investments for the powerful Menlo Park-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Before that, he worked as the leader of Rider Growth at Uber. Waldron won Miss Ireland in 2010 and now helms an AI startup called Spuddie, which promises to develop a digital “best bud” that would “tend to your emotional and intellectual nourishment,” the company’s site says. Both Chen and Waldron list their locations as both San Francisco and Los Angeles on social media.

13 Nov 2023

#utah #california #silicon valley #andreessen horowitz #rich people

[cimedia]

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[metastable1]

Contra Andreessen on AI risk

A not long time ago Marc Andreessen published an essay titled "Why AI Will Save The World". I have some objections to the section "AI Risk #1: Will AI Kill Us All?", specifically to a pair of paragraphs that contained actual object-level arguments instead of psychologizing:

My view is that the idea that AI will decide to literally kill humanity is a profound category error. AI is not a living being that has been primed by billions of years of evolution to participate in the battle for the survival of the fittest, as animals are, and as we are. It is math – code – computers, built by people, owned by people, used by people, controlled by people. The idea that it will at some point develop a mind of its own and decide that it has motivations that lead it to try to kill us is a superstitious handwave. In short, AI doesn’t want, it doesn’t have goals, it doesn’t want to kill you, because it’s not alive. And AI is a machine – is not going to come alive any more than your toaster will.

My response (adapted from Twitter thread) aimed mainly at the claim about goals: AI goals are implicit in its programming. Whether chess-playing AI "wants" things or not, when deployed, it reliably steers the state of the board toward winning condition.

The fact, that the programmer built the AI, owns and uses it, doesn't change the fact, that given superhuman play on the AI's part, they will lose the chess game.

The programmer controls chess AI (they can shut it down, modify it, etc., if they want) because this AI is domain-specific and can't reason about the environment beyond its internal representation of the chessboard.

This AI in the video below is not alive but it sure does things. It's not very smart but the possibility of it being smarter is not questioned by Marc. This AI acts in a virtual environment but, in principle, AI can act in the real world through humans or our infrastructure.

Human-level AI will be capable of operating in many domains, ultimately accomplishing the goals in the world, similarly to humans. That's the goal of the field of artificial intelligence.

The worry isn't about AI developing (terminal) goals on its own but about pushing the environment toward states that are higher in preference ordering dictated by its programming.

AI researchers have no idea how to reliably aim AIs toward the intended goals and superintelligent AI will be very competent at modeling reality and planning to achieve its goals. The divergence between what we want and what AI will competently pursue is a reason for concern. As Stuart Russell put it:

The primary concern is not spooky emergent consciousness but simply the ability to make high-quality decisions. Here, quality refers to the expected outcome utility of actions taken, where the utility function is, presumably, specified by the human designer. Now we have a problem: 1. The utility function may not be perfectly aligned with the values of the human race, which are (at best) very difficult to pin down. 2. Any sufficiently capable intelligent system will prefer to ensure its own continued existence and to acquire physical and computational resources – not for their own sake, but to succeed in its assigned task. A system that is optimizing a function of n variables, where the objective depends on a subset of size k<n, will often set the remaining unconstrained variables to extreme values; if one of those unconstrained variables is actually something we care about, the solution found may be highly undesirable.  This is essentially the old story of the genie in the lamp, or the sorcerer’s apprentice, or King Midas: you get exactly what you ask for, not what you want. A highly capable decision maker – especially one connected through the Internet to all the world’s information and billions of screens and most of our infrastructure – can have an irreversible impact on humanity.

Why would it kill humans? 1) we would want to stop it when we notice it doesn't act in our interest - AI needs no survival instinct or emotions implemented by evolution to reason that if it will be shut down it will not achieve its goal

2) we could create another ASI that it would have to compete or share resources with, which would result in a worse outcome for itself

#ai #xrisk #deepmind #marc andreessen #Youtube #stuart russell

[linusjf]

Marc Andreessen: Good news

“I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.” —Marc Andreessen.

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#Marc andreessen

[indiabizlive]

According to Reuters, Character.AI received $150 million in a recent fundraising round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The AI chatbot startup is now valued at $1 billion. Additionally, the corporation is rumoured to be discussing potential strategic investments with several cloud providers. The trend of AI funding growth has continued since ChatGPT from OpenAI achieved global exposure, as illustrated by a firm with no sales getting a billion-dollar value. This occurred amidst the aftermath of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse.

#Fund Raising #Character.AI #Andreessen Horowitz #startup

[biglisbonnews]

Who Owns the Generative AI Platform? We’re starting to see the very early stages of a tech stack emerge in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Hundreds of new startups are rushing into the market to develop foundation models, build AI-native apps, and stand up infrastructure/tooling. https://a16z.com/2023/01/19/who-owns-the-generative-ai-platform/

#Andreessen Horowitz