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Anthropic CEO Says Government Should Help Ensure AI's Economic Upside Is Shared

An anonymous reader shares a report: Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei predicted a future in which AI will spur significant economic growth -- but could lead to widespread unemployment and inequality. Amodei is both "excited and worried" about the impact of AI, he said in an interview at Davos Tuesday. "I don't think there's an awareness at all of what is coming here and the magnitude of it."

Anthropic is the developer of the popular chatbot Claude. Amodei said the government will need to play a role in navigating the massive displacement in jobs that could result from advances in AI. He said there could be a future with 5% to 10% GDP growth and 10% unemployment. "That's not a combination we've almost ever seen before," he said. "There's gonna need to be some role for government in the displacement that's this macroeconomically large."

Amodei painted a potential "nightmare" scenario that AI could bring to society if not properly checked, laying out a future in which 10 million people -- 7 million in Silicon Valley and the rest scattered elsewhere -- could "decouple" from the rest of society, enjoying as much as 50% GPD growth while others were left behind. "I think this is probably a time to worry less about disincentivizing growth and worry more about making sure that everyone gets a part of that growth," Amodei said. He noted that was "the opposite of the prevailing sentiment now," but the reality of technological change will force those ideas to change.

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Appy - An AppImage Installer

Appy - An AppImage Installer

I nerd-sniped myself today. All I wanted to do was installing SuperSonic, a subsonic compatible music player written in go. One of their recommended ways to run it is an AppImage.

An AppImage is basically an ELF executable which contains a SquashFS with the application and all dependencies it needs. It's a simple way to distribute a Linux binary.

Running an AppImage is super simple. You download it, you make it executable you start it.

But for graphical tools, you probably want it integrated into your system's menu with a nice icon. For that you need to copy the AppImage to a more permanent location than your download folder, create a .desktop file in .local/share/applications and also place an icon in .local/share/icons. Now you need to remember the .desktop specification and also need to find a proper icon for your app. All not very difficult but tedious.

So I looked into available AppImage “installers” that would automate this process. I wasn't happy with what I found. It all seemed more complicated than what I wanted.

So I spent a few hours co-working with Claude to come up with my own solution called “Appy”. It's a single go binary which can install and register itself as default handler for .AppImage files.

Once installed, you can download the AppImage, double click it in your file manager and get a single button to “install” it.

You click the button, the AppImage is copied to ~/Applications, chmod'ed and the icon and desktop file are extracted from the AppImage itself and installed at the right places. And when you later want to “uninstall” the app again, you right click it in your ~/Applications folder, select “Open with… Appy” and you can uninstall it with another click of a button.

You can find Appy at Github.

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Trump wil niet afreizen naar Parijs voor toekomstige G7-top

WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - Donald Trump is niet geĂŻnteresseerd om af te reizen naar Parijs voor een bijeenkomst van de G7. Dat zei de Amerikaanse president in reactie op vragen van journalisten tijdens zijn persmoment rond zijn eenjarige jubileum van zijn tweede termijn als president.

De Franse president Emmanuel Macron had erop gezinspeeld zo'n overleg tussen vooraanstaande westerse economieën te willen organiseren, wellicht donderdag al in Davos. In die Zwitserse plaats zijn vele hoogwaardigheidsbekleders en wereldleiders bijeen voor het jaarlijkse World Economic Forum.

Later kwam Macron op die woorden terug en zei hij deze week nog geen bijeenkomst te hebben gepland. Wel zou Frankrijk bereid zijn de top te organiseren. In de marge daarvan zouden ook landen die geen lid van de G7 zijn kunnen worden uitgenodigd, aldus Macron. Daarbij noemde hij specifiek Oekraïne, Denemarken, Rusland en Syrië - landen die onlangs allen op hun eigen manier in aanraking zijn gekomen met de VS en het Westen.


Frankrijk onderzoekt dood van baby die Nestlé-voeding kreeg

PARIJS (ANP) - Gezondheidsautoriteiten in Frankrijk onderzoeken het overlijden van een baby die babyvoeding van Nestlé had gedronken die deel uitmaakte van een grote terugroepactie. Het is nog niet duidelijk of de dood van het jonge kind te maken had met de voeding, benadrukt de organisatie tegenover persbureau AFP.

Nestlé begon eerder deze maand met een terugroepactie van babyvoeding van merken als SMA, BEBA, Alfamino en Little Steps 1. Bij een controle in een fabriek werd de bacterie Bacillus cereus aangetroffen, die heftig braken en diarree kan veroorzaken.

Een centrum voor gezondheidscrises van het Franse ministerie van Volksgezondheid zegt een melding van het overlijden van een baby te hebben gekregen en die te onderzoeken. Op dit moment is er geen verband tussen de babyvoeding en het overlijden vastgesteld.

Nestlé heeft in zo'n zestig landen babyvoeding teruggeroepen vanwege de bacterie, waaronder Nederland.


Trump zinspeelt op rol voor MarĂ­a Corina Machado in Venezuela

WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zou de Venezolaanse oppositieleider MarĂ­a Corina Machado "graag" een rol geven in dat land. Dat zei hij tijdens een persconferentie in Washington rond zijn eenjarig jubileum in zijn tweede termijn als president.

"Ik was zo sterk tegen Venezuela gekant, nu houd ik van Venezuela", aldus Trump. "Ze hebben zo goed met ons samengewerkt." Over Machado zegt hij dat hij met haar in gesprek is en overweegt haar "op enigerlei manier" een rol te bieden in Venezuela. "MarĂ­a, misschien kunnen we dat doen." Onduidelijk is welke rol Trump voor ogen heeft.

Machado overhandigde afgelopen week haar Nobelprijs aan Trump tijdens een ontmoeting tussen de twee. Die hield de Amerikaanse president vervolgens. Trump heeft meermaals genoemd de vredesprijs graag uitgereikt te krijgen, maar kreeg die vooralsnog niet. Volgens het Nobelcomité is het niet mogelijk de prijs over te dragen, Trumps verkregen medaille is daarmee symbolisch van aard.


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Researchers from Anthropic and other orgs have observed situations in which LLMs act like a helpful personal assistant, and are trying to study the phenomenon further to make sure chatbots don't go off the rails and cause harm.…

Aurora Australis in Queensland

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Aurora Australis in Queensland

The aurrora forecast for last night was so good that I decided to drive 110lm (1.5hrs) from home to find a relatively dark sky west of Brisbane (near Laidley) to attempt to photograph it.

Auroras are rare in Queensland as we're usually too far north by a long way, but it was so strong last night that there was decent colour in the sky (on camera).

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Clouds Billow and Caverns Melt in Gabe Benzur’s Mystical Landscapes

Clouds Billow and Caverns Melt in Gabe Benzur’s Mystical Landscapes

Otherworldly riverine landscapes unfold beneath green clouds, and uncanny caverns are dotted with cotton candy-like shrubs in the surreal oil paintings of Gabe Benzur. With color forefront in his mind, the Brooklyn-based artist’s compositions teeter between representation and imagination. He begins by creating scenes digitally, then transfers the renderings into drawings, followed by canvases.

Benzur renders billowing clouds, mountains, and calderas in distinctive palettes, some of which are more fantastical than others. Works like “Uni” and “Menrva” evoke the transcendental landscapes of Agnes Pelton, while pieces like “Orcus” and “Mania” take on an almost cartoonish quality in their melting, sticky formations that play with our impressions of reality.

A surreal landscape painting by Gabe Benzur of different levels that appear to be sticky or melting
“Phersipnai”

Benzur is influenced by places he’s been or read about while also incorporating elements of cartoons, the supernatural, mythology, memories, anatomy, and more. “I follow no specific visual lineage,” he says. “I am trying to capture what I see in my head omnivorously to create a world in which I want to exist.”

A few of Benzur’s pieces are currently on view in The Invisible Dog Goes for a Walk at Hashimoto Contemporary, which continues through February 7 in New York City. Find more on the artist’s Instagram.

A landscape painting by Gabe Benzur of an aerial view of a caldera
“Nanos”
A surreal landscape painting by Gabe Benzur of different levels that appear to be sticky or melting
“Mania”
A landscape painting by Gabe Benzur of a riverine scene with billowing pastel-colored clouds
“Tinia”
A landscape painting by Gabe Benzur of a surreal riverine, desert-like landscape with mountains in the background
“Fold Valley”
A landscape painting by Gabe Benzur of a green-hued landscape with sharply tall mountains and a river valley in the foreground
“Aril”
A surreal landscape painting by Gabe Benzur of a cave-like opening with a river running through it
“Achrum”
A surreal landscape painting by Gabe Benzur of different levels that appear to be sticky or melting
“Orcus”
A landscape painting by Gabe Benzur of a riverine scene with trees and flowers along the bank
“Selvans”
A landscape painting by Gabe Benzur of a riverine scene with billowing pastel-colored clouds
“Uni”

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