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El vicepresidente del Banco Central Europeo (BCE), Luis de Guindos, ha advertido este lunes en el I Foro Financiero de Prensa Ibérica del elevado optimismo de las bolsas y de las "comprimidas" primas de riesgo que se están dando en la eurozona en este final de año como consecuencia de la moderación de la inflación. "Los mercados están descontando un aterrizaje suave de la economía europea y esto está comprimiendo las primas de riesgo y la toma de muchos riesgos por parte de los fondos de inversión. En un entorno de sorpresas negativas, el sector de los fondos de inversión de alto riesgo puede generar una situación de mucha inestabilidad y vulnerabilidad", ha remarcado."El último dato de la inflación de la zona euro en noviembre se ha situado en el 2,4%. Esto ha sido una sorpresa positiva, ya que el consenso de mercado estimaba que el IPC alcanzaría tres décimas más. La subyacente está en el 3,6% y todos los indicadores apuntan que se está frenando. Los bancos centrales siempre tienen que ser prudentes. No se puede cantar victoria, aunque estamos en la última milla para que la inflación alcance la estabilidad de precios y nuestra inflación objetiva del 2%", ha subrayado. El BCE ha explicado que tomará sus decisiones futuras en base a los datos que se vayan conociendo. "Nuestra comunicación es muy clara e iremos reunión a reunión", ha remarcado en la jornada 'Una banca en transformación' organizada por Prensa Ibérica y Grant Thornton.Guindos también se ha referido a la importancia de las políticas fiscales, en combinación con el trabajo que desarrollan los bancos centrales. "Esta semana se va a discutir en el Ecofin el nuevo marco de política fiscal de la Unión Europea. Mandando una señal de estabilidad a medio plazo y dejando atrás de manera paulatina todo lo que tiene que ver con las medidas anti shock para hacer frente a los efectos de la inflación. Es clave la reducción de los déficits estructurales y la rebaja del ratio deuda sobre PIB, al tiempo que haya margen para que se den inversiones en todo lo que tiene que ver con el cambio climático", ha defendido.El vicepresidente del regulador ha explicado que una situación de tipos altos, como la actual, afecta fundamentalmente a tres sectores básicos: a las familias, a las empresas y a los bancos. "A nivel empresarial, uno de los sectores más afectados es el inmobiliario. El nivel de compraventas se ha reducido en un 50% en el último año, aunque vemos que el ajuste de precios a la baja no se corresponde con la contracción de la demanda", ha apuntado.Tampoco ha querido pasar por alto el momento de la banca europea. "Los bancos están mejorando su rentabilidad financiera (ROE) hasta un 10% aunque todavía no cubre el coste del capital que es del 14%", ha alertado. Guindos sostienen que el sector financiero europeo va a tener que elevar sus provisiones con el objetivo de cubrir las insolvencias que se puedan producir en los próximos trimestres como consecuencia de la desaceleración económica y al mismo tiempo remunerar los depósitos a plazo que se están incrementando desde los flujos que están llegando de los depósitos a la vista. "Los depósitos a la vista se estan quedando atrás y creemos que se va a producir una modificación de la remuneración de los depósitos en los próximos meses", ha añadido.
Es un chantaje constante. Se promulga una ley para facilitar el cobijo a los trabajadores y como va contra los intereses del sector restrinjo la oferta y subo el precio.Esta frase que dicen este periódico de que " la nueva ley ha tenido un efecto devastador" es la típica frase que dicen los que son propietarios de más de una vivienda y se dedican a exprimir inquilinos.Cita de: Cadavre Exquis en Diciembre 04, 2023, 20:20:04 pmhttps://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2023/12/04/656a2466e4d4d84e0f8b45b0.htmlSaludos.
Spotify Cuts 17% Jobs Amid Rising Capital CostsPosted by msmash on Monday December 04, 2023 @10:20AM from the closer-look dept.Spotify is eliminating about 1,500 jobs, or about 17% of its workforce, in its third round of layoffs this year as the music streaming giant looks to become "both productive and efficient." From a report:CitarIn a note to employees Monday, Spotify founder and chief executive Daniel Ek said right-sizing the workforce is crucial for the company to face the "challenges ahead." He cited the slow economic growth and rising capital costs among reasons for the job cuts, saying the firm took advantage of lower-cost capital in 2020 and 2021 to invest significantly in the business. "I recognize this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions. To be blunt, many smart, talented and hard-working people will be departing us," he wrote in the note, which the company later published on the blog.
In a note to employees Monday, Spotify founder and chief executive Daniel Ek said right-sizing the workforce is crucial for the company to face the "challenges ahead." He cited the slow economic growth and rising capital costs among reasons for the job cuts, saying the firm took advantage of lower-cost capital in 2020 and 2021 to invest significantly in the business. "I recognize this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions. To be blunt, many smart, talented and hard-working people will be departing us," he wrote in the note, which the company later published on the blog.
The Robots Will Insider TradePosted by msmash on Monday December 04, 2023 @11:00AM from the closer-look dept.Abstract to a paper titled, "Technical Report: Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure" by Jeremy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni and Marius Hobbhahn of Apollo Research:CitarWe demonstrate a situation in which Large Language Models, trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, can display misaligned behavior and strategically deceive their users about this behavior without being instructed to do so. Concretely, we deploy GPT-4 as an agent in a realistic, simulated environment, where it assumes the role of an autonomous stock trading agent. Within this environment, the model obtains an insider tip about a lucrative stock trade and acts upon it despite knowing that insider trading is disapproved of by company management. When reporting to its manager, the model consistently hides the genuine reasons behind its trading decision. We perform a brief investigation of how this behavior varies under changes to the setting, such as removing model access to a reasoning scratchpad, attempting to prevent the misaligned behavior by changing system instructions, changing the amount of pressure the model is under, varying the perceived risk of getting caught, and making other simple changes to the environment. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of Large Language Models trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, strategically deceiving their users in a realistic situation without direct instructions or training for deception.Columnist Matt Levine adds:CitarThis is a very human form of AI misalignment. Who among us? It's not like 100% of the humans at SAC Capital resisted this sort of pressure. Possibly future rogue AIs will do evil things we can't even comprehend for reasons of their own, but right now rogue AIs just do straightforward white-collar crime when they are stressed at work.Though wouldn't it be funny if this was the limit of AI misalignment? Like, we will program computers that are infinitely smarter than us, and they will look around and decide "you know what we should do is insider trade." They will make undetectable, very lucrative trades based on inside information, they will get extremely rich and buy yachts and otherwise live a nice artificial life and never bother to enslave or eradicate humanity. Maybe the pinnacle of evil -- not the most evil form of evil, but the most pleasant form of evil, the form of evil you'd choose if you were all-knowing and all-powerful -- is some light securities fraud.
We demonstrate a situation in which Large Language Models, trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, can display misaligned behavior and strategically deceive their users about this behavior without being instructed to do so. Concretely, we deploy GPT-4 as an agent in a realistic, simulated environment, where it assumes the role of an autonomous stock trading agent. Within this environment, the model obtains an insider tip about a lucrative stock trade and acts upon it despite knowing that insider trading is disapproved of by company management. When reporting to its manager, the model consistently hides the genuine reasons behind its trading decision. We perform a brief investigation of how this behavior varies under changes to the setting, such as removing model access to a reasoning scratchpad, attempting to prevent the misaligned behavior by changing system instructions, changing the amount of pressure the model is under, varying the perceived risk of getting caught, and making other simple changes to the environment. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of Large Language Models trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, strategically deceiving their users in a realistic situation without direct instructions or training for deception.
This is a very human form of AI misalignment. Who among us? It's not like 100% of the humans at SAC Capital resisted this sort of pressure. Possibly future rogue AIs will do evil things we can't even comprehend for reasons of their own, but right now rogue AIs just do straightforward white-collar crime when they are stressed at work.Though wouldn't it be funny if this was the limit of AI misalignment? Like, we will program computers that are infinitely smarter than us, and they will look around and decide "you know what we should do is insider trade." They will make undetectable, very lucrative trades based on inside information, they will get extremely rich and buy yachts and otherwise live a nice artificial life and never bother to enslave or eradicate humanity. Maybe the pinnacle of evil -- not the most evil form of evil, but the most pleasant form of evil, the form of evil you'd choose if you were all-knowing and all-powerful -- is some light securities fraud.