Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre
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Waymo autonomous vehicles crash less frequently than human drivers
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"it seems like Waymo cars get into serious crashes at a significantly lower rate than human-driven cars." – @binarybits
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Autopilot Benchmark: Superior Performance Over Human Operators
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The benchmark for adopting autopilot on planes or cars should not be perfection, but doing significantly better than human pilots and drivers
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Is Data Access the Key Production Limiting Factor?
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Is access to data the key factor limiting your production?
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Self-driving cars safety improvement compared to highway fatalities
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I mean, their safety record is a significant improvement, even when they are in full self driving mode. Since there are over 40,000 highway fatalities per year in the US alone there’s lots of room for improvement
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LLM capabilities have advanced far beyond 2016 expectations
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I don’t think many people in 2016 thought that LLMs would be so much more capable today. As you note, the use cases even when they’re not perfect are enormous.
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NPCs in Video Games Will Soon Pass Basic Turing Test
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Within a few years, NPCs in popular video games are going to pass a basic Turing test. https://t.co/3JrAPF6P6t
— Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) 23 juillet 2023Within a few years, NPCs in popular video games are going to pass a basic Turing test.
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AI Progress Exceeded Expectations Despite Autonomous Vehicles Delay
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Yep. LLM‘s came a lot faster than people expected and self driving cars slower. But overall, I’d have to rate AI progress as surprising us on the upside, even people who were relatively optimistic like me. Don’t you agree?