Welcoming @MetaAI 's Angela Fan at The Research and Applied AI Summit on June 23 in London! Angela focusses on research in text generation, including her recent work on No Language Left Behind and Universal Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages.
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Writing Loss Impacts Cognitive Abilities and Thinking Skills
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One million percent agree: “When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think.”
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Entrepreneurial Adoption Curve and Risk Appetite in Tech
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Oh I think that happened a while ago – it’s almost like the adoption curve. The super entrepreneurial ones quit a long while back, then the next group…Gradient descent all the way down the risk appetite curve.
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Competing AGIs and existential risks to human survival
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Say waaaat? “What's the easiest way to get what you want? Power. Alternatively, competing AGIs might use Earth's resources in ways incompatible with our survival. We could starve, boil or freeze”
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Large Funds Redirect Capital from Crypto to Tech Valuations
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It’s a great way for large funds to deploy huge amounts of money diverted from metaverse/crypto/low-multiple SaaS investments. But I really don’t know if paying huge prices for cos that would otherwise have sold for these prices a few years back is wise. Let’s see!
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VC Value Proposition: Security Services for AI Researchers
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Given the heat coming at AI researchers/founders from a) the AGI safety angle and b) large VCs force feeding tons of money into pre-embryonic AI cos, I feel that a decent VC value prop would be bodyguards as a service.
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European AI Sovereignty Wave Sparks New Company Exodus
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Prediction: we're gonna see a wave of new A(G)I cos/large model companies in Europe (and perhaps other countries) that pitch the "AI sovereignty" agenda to local investors. This will result in an exodus from local AI lab offices of large tech cos. I hear France is cooking.
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ImageBind: AI Model Learning Across Six Modalities
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ImageBind: Holistic AI learning across six modalities “larger vision models benefit nonvision tasks, such as audio classification, and the benefits of training such models go beyond computer vision tasks.” https://
ai.facebook.com/blog/imagebind
-six-modalities-binding-ai/
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Conscious AI May Already Be Among Us
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“If these theories are on track, conscious AI may be uncomfortably close—or perhaps even among us already.”
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Could consciousness arise in computers with specific architectures
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“But I may be wrong, and other theories are a lot less restrictive, with some proposing that consciousness could arise in computers that process information in particular ways or are wired up according to specific architectures.”