Very sad to hear that Daniel Dennett passed away. I interviewed him back in 2017, after the publication of his latest book, and he offered a very prescient warning about AI systems that might seem incredibly clever but work in mysterious ways: https://technologyreview.com/2017/04/11/5113/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/ …
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AI Chatbots Risk Overwhelming Election Workers
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Important piece by @telliotter foreshadowing the potential for AI to overwhelm election workers. There is huge potential for even relatively dumb chatbots to interfere with politics.
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Claude 3 Personality: Intelligence Gain or Training Artifact?
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Claude 3 definitely seems more person-like, but is that a sign that it is (a) smarter or (b) something else? I'm curious if the team at @AnthropicAI may have tuned the RLHF or curated training data to achieve this? Perhaps it's even a result of their focus on safety?
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DBRX: New Open Source Model Beats Grok and Competition
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Scoop: Grok had a good run but there’s a new open source model that beats out the rest: DBRX. I got an inside look at the impressive work that went into building it:
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Experts warn AI will destroy humanity, AI responds
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Experts: Ai is coming to destroy humanity.
AI…. https://
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Elon Musk to Release Grok After Suing OpenAI for Lack of Openness
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From earlier today… After suing OpenAI for being too closed, Elon Musk has said he will release Grok. It's could help attract developers to his project but will likely also see him wade into the debate concerning the risks of open models.
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San Francisco reverses facial recognition restrictions amid rising crime fears
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San Francisco lead U.S. in restricting facial recognition in the US five years ago. With fears about crime rising, voters have now asked for more surveillance, drones, and robots. (by @LaurenGoode and @tsimonite
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Whisperkit revealed from Argmax ex-Apple team
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Spoiler: it is Whisperkit from the ex-Apple folks at Argmax https://
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Will Knight discusses Nvidia on Gadget Lab podcast
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Lunar New Year Greetings to Humans and AI Agents
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恭喜发财 to all the humans, and all the AI agents, that celebrate the lunar new year.