I am not (yet) buying into the existential risk of AI going rogue, but democratizing the ability to design bio weapons is a very real threat IMO.
@wellingmax
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California AI Bill: Balancing Regulation and Startup Innovation
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The California AI bill that splits our community in two, with friends on both sides of the divide. I think we can really not avoid regulation in this space. The trick is to do it in a way that is least disruptive for doing business especially for startups.
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Appreciation for Paper’s Cusps and NERD Methodology
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Congratulations. I am seeing lots of beautiful cusps in the paper . Also love the name: “We also investigate the performances of our NERDs …”
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Skepticism about TD Computing’s Revolutionary Potential and Clarity
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I still don’t know what TD computing really is. Extropic is very vague about it. Faster mcmc sampling by using natural noise? Energy based models based on this mcmc? It does not sound revolutionary to me yet but who knows what rabbit comes out of that hat.
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AI Progress Impressive But AGI Timeline Uncertain Due to Scaling Limits
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I am super impressed with recent progress in AI. But can we extrapolate that AGI is around the corner? Remember that scaling laws are polynomial with a coefficient < 1 at best, and we have almost exhausted the reliable data sources available. Not 100% sure but interesting times!
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Top AI Researchers Support California’s AI Safety Bill
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Well, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Stuart Russell actively support the bill. Hardly a outlandishly fringe AI doomsday cult I would say: https://
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ig-ai-names-weigh-endorse-californias-ai-act#:~:text=FourdistinguishedprofessorsofAI,FrontierArtificialIntelligenceModelsAct
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Interview with Samir Kumar on CuspAI Seed Round Investment
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Brilliant interview with Samir Kumar from Touring Capital. It’s nice to hear his thoughts on why he invested in CuspAI in our seed round rather than their usual B round investments.
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Redirecting VC Funding from Hyped LLMs to AI4Science and Sustainability
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So maybe it is time to reroute all those VC $$ to AI4Science and AI4Sustainability and away from LLMs which are currently too hyped up. That bubble is about to deflate to a more reasonable valuation I would think.
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Physics equations generalize better than ML surrogates but slower
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Physics equations from first principles tend to generalize better than ML surrogates I would think. But speed definitely.
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Entretien sur la révolution discrète de la prévision météorologique
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Great interview with Richard Turner on the “quiet revolution in weather forecasting”.