I’ve just raised a billion dollars from a couple of tech billionaires to fund a new institute, to be called IRAID – Institute for Raising the Alarm about Imaginary Dangers.
@pmddomingos
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OpenAI’s Safety Group Dissolution Reveals Altman’s Competitive Strategy
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The demise of OpenAI’s safety group is the sound of Sam Altman realizing that his key competitive advantage vs. Google is not being hobbled by risk aversion.
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PresiBot: The Solution to Culture War Fatigue
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Bored of the culture wars? PresiBot is the antidote:
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Generative AI Replaces Human Thinkers: History and Impact
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Not just recent trends: the entire history of AI. (But yes, Yuval is particularly easy to replace by genAI.)
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Single First-Person Video Matches ImageNet for Vision Pretraining
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Surprise: a single first-person video is as good as ImageNet for vision pretraining.
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OpenAI’s safety team disbanded despite extinction prevention mission
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The team at OpenAI that wanted to save humanity from extinction couldn’t even save itself from extinction.
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OpenAI’s Biggest Risk: Losing Its Identity and Purpose
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Turns out the biggest x-risk at OpenAI is the risk of becoming ex-OpenAI.
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Feel the AGI Contradicts Gravitas Concept
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Unfortunately "feel the AGI" is the opposite of "gravitas".
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AI Startup Claims Carbon-Neutral Status Through Handwaving
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My AI startup is carbon-neutral because it's powered by handwaving.
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Machine Learning: Correlation Over Causation in Practice
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Machine learning is the art of doing the wrong things that correlate with the right ones.