A proposal by @sama for government regulation of AI: "Require that the first SMI developed have as part of its operating rules that a) it can’t cause any direct or indirect harm to humanity (i.e. Asimov’s zeroeth law), …" 1/2
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Understanding AI Models Before Critical Applications
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Wow, this is just remarkable. We need to understand these models a lot better before we give them control of anything mission-critical.
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ChatGPT’s Blindspots and How They Compare to Human Minds
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ChatGPT has some interesting blindspots. I wonder how many more there are and how they differ from the blindspots in human minds.
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US Productivity Surges 3.0% While Labor Costs Rise Slowly
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US Productivity growth surged at a 3.0% annual rate last quarter, more than expected. That puts it ahead of the pre-pandemic trend for productivity growth. Meanwhile, labor costs grew at only a 1.1% annual rate: good news for inflation. https://
bls.gov/news.release/p
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Self-Driving Vehicles Still in Early Development Stages
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Experts tell me that self-driving vehicles are still in their infancy
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Scott Aaronson’s Watermarking Approach for LLM-Generated Text
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Scott Aaronson describes an interesting approach to watermarking text generated by large language models to help discourage abuse. A similar approach could be used for images as well.
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30% Chance of AGI by 2030, Says Jeff Clune
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According to @jeffclune there is a 30% chance we will achieve AGI by 2030 (defined as AI capable of doing 50% of economically valuable human work)
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Jürgen Schmidhuber’s Fascination with Metalearning and Algorithm Innovation
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Now Jürgen Schmidhuber @SchmidhuberAI He is most fascinated by metalearning — systems that invent learning algorithms for new types of problems.
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Ben Goertzel predicts AGI arrival within 3-5 years timeline
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Now @bengoertzel who helped coin the term AGI is discussing says that we may get there in "3-5 years and even if it were 20 years, that's still very soon."
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AI Debate on Innateness and Physical Embodiment of Intelligence
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Fascinating discussion right now at the https://
agidebate.com where @YejinChoinka and @dileeplearning are discussing innateness and physical embodiment of AI. Dileep says he's changing his mind since a few weeks ago about how to learn spatial representations. #AI