Bill Thompson

Oh, my God.

Give me money, motherfucker.

But what Apple and Meta want to do is, like, they're trying to build these new neural networks.

They're trying to, you know, humans, and we can get into this too later if you want.

Humans are the only thing, in my opinion, and I'm happy to have you disagree with me, and I love to have this conversation.

In my opinion, we're the only ones that are...

Yeah, I mean, they're all squirrely.

And that's the problem.

And so you asked me why I don't trust them.

It's because they want to use... So humans, in my opinion, and some animals, are the only things...

that have the ability to project consciousness.

And projecting consciousness is how you train a neural network.

And it's how you train all these large networks.

A lot of my time also in the military is spent, I was doing artificial intelligence in 2012, 2011.

Before it was even a catch term, we were using artificial intelligence to map dynamic networks and to do other things, more pragmatic uses of it than how it's being used today with large language models or convolutional neural networks.

But they need consciousness to train their models.

So when Google offers you Meta or Instagram or whoever else offers you photo storage, it's because they want your face to train neural networks.

If they're going to pay for the compute, if they're going to pay for the storage for these things, they're doing it because they're going to use the data.

If you're getting a free app, in essence, any free app, if the product's free, then you're the product.

So when Google is allowing you to use a Google Drive and get a gig of storage, they're going to use those photos to train neural networks to do better facial recognition.