That's an excellent piece, Noah.
So many good points. I particularly like this bit:
"So anyone who thinks that technology is pushed forward solely by scrappy inventors in their garages, while government and big business merely parasitizes off of their labors, is deeply wrong.
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Government and Big Business Role in Technological Innovation
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Collaborating with Young Talented AI Professionals
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Working with young and talented collaborators.
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AI Assistants: Better Knowledge Interface and Cultural Vehicles
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Chatting with @timoreilly today he said: "books are a user interface to knowledge."
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Influential figures push governments ban open source AI
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Because a bunch of influential people think AI is too dangerous to make available to everyone and are actively lobbying governments to make open source AI illegal.
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Habitat 3.0 Virtual Environment Released with Open-Source Code
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Habitat 3.0 is released!
— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) 20 octobre 2023
Virtual environment with humanoid sims under human control, robots, realistic indoor environments, physics, …
Paper, open-source code, and datasets. https://t.co/GBu4HtFRrFHabitat 3.0 is released!
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Open Exchange Essential for AI Leadership and Progress
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Collama: Varun Mathur’s Quick AI and Ethereum Integration Hack
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Collama: Wikipedia-Style Crowd-Sourced LLM Fine-Tuning
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Collama: a quick implementation of the idea of Wikipedia-style crowd-sourced fine-tuning for LLMs.
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Representative Democracy Regulation: Voters Control Representatives
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In a non-corrupt representative democracy, representatives regulate the regulators, and voters regulate the representatives.
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Semantic Knowledge and Language: Challenging the Propositional Picture
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A new paper by @Jake_Browning00 and me that just appeared in Artificial Intelligence.
It discusses the (in)validity of the "propositional picture of semantic knowledge" according to which all knowledge is expressible in language. "Cognitive scientists and AI researchers now https://
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