In the News II

Quote: rxwine

Based on the last paragraph, he was probably already in pretty bad shape.

Quote: GenoDRPh

I live in Weymouth, as an aside.

He was on dialysis, received a kidney several years ago and it started to fail so he went back on dialysis. His doctor recommended the pig kidney after multiple complications caused by continued dialysis treatment worsened his condition.

Quote: rxwine

...and fewer people in Nigeria will wake-up in a bathtub full of ice missing their kidney. (heh heh)

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has long supported the idea of a universal basic income.
Many in AI think a universal basic income could help mitigate the impacts of the tech on workers.
Altman floated a new kind of basic income last week that he calls "universal basic compute."
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has an interesting new idea to help those struggling financially.

He calls it "universal basic compute."

"Everybody gets like a slice of GPT-7's compute," he said on the All-In podcast. "They can use it, they can resell it, they can donate it to somebody to use for cancer research."

The idea is that as AI becomes advanced — and embedded into more facets of our lives — owning a unit of a large language model like GPT-7 can be more valuable than money. "You own like part of the productivity," he said.

Altman has long supported a universal basic income — a recurring cash payment, no strings attached, made to all adults in a given population regardless of their wealth and employment status. Altman, like many others in the tech industry, sees a universal basic income as a safety net for people as AI threatens their jobs.

Altman started his own UBI experiment in 2016, the results of which he said on the podcast would be released soon. The program provided payments of between $50 to $1,000 a month to more than 3,000 enrollees, according to Fortune.


Cities and states across the United States have experimented with a version of this called guaranteed basic income. These programs give no-strings-attached cash payments to people based on demonstrated need or social and societal status instead of a population as a whole.

Most of those programs have shown positive results, though conservatives are increasingly pushing back on what they see as a form of welfare that could discourage people from working. In Texas, the state supreme court recently blocked a Houston area program from giving low-income people $500 a month.

Quote: DRich

Hopefully it won't happen in Florida either. I only have one kidney.

Quote: rxwine

There may be a thread on Universal Basic Income here, but don't know where it is.

Quote: AZDuffman

Anyone who thinks UBI can work has no business in AI as they had better work on actual intelligence first. UBI is impossible.

Quote: rxwine

The idea is Ai will force more and more people out of work by replacing them. Plenty of people are wrong about saying something will never happen. Which is what you would say, I expect. I don't know myself. But you would have to do something different than what we are doing with more and more unemployable people. They'll want to work, but won't be needed, which is different than the usual problem.