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Doug Lenat, 1950-2023
AI has lost a giant
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Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models
Wowed by a new paper I just read and wish I had thought to write myself. Lukas Berglund and others, led by Owain Evans, asked a simple, powerful…
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Six months after the Pause letter, AI is still erratic — and still something we should still be deeply concerned about
Friday will be six months after the infamous “pause letter”, signed by Yoshua Bengio, myself, Steve Wozniak, Rachel Bronson, Viktoria Krakovna, Tristan…
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Karen Bakker, 1971-2023
A true visionary, gone too soon
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The dirty underbelly of AI
Surveillance capitalism just keeps going and going
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Could we all be doomed, without ranked-choice voting?
As I wrote the other day, p(doom) is somewhat-tongue-in-cheek shorthand for the probability that we are all going to die from some AI-induced extinction…
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𝐩(𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐦)
No, we probably won’t all die anytime soon, but there is still a lot to be worried about.
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The US and China want different things, right?
The number one reason I hear for not regulating AI is that if we do China will beat us, and if China beats us, we are all screwed, because they would…
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Marcus on AI
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