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  • Tech Giants AGI Control Poses Existential Risk Society

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    @garymarcus

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    This is literally why I wrote Taming Silicon Valley. Big Brain AI (@realBigBrainAI) Director James Cameron on why Big Tech owning AGI is scarier than any science fiction he's ever made: "AGI will not emerge from a government funded program. It will emerge from one of the tech giants currently funding this multi-billion dollar research." And when that happens, he warns, you won't get a vote on it: "So then you'll be living in a world that you didn't agree to, didn't vote for, that you are co-inhabiting with a super intelligent alien species that answers to the goals and rules of a corporation." A corporation that already knows everything about you: "An entity which has access to the comms, beliefs, everything you ever said, and the whereabouts of every person in the country via your personal data." From there, the slide toward something far darker is shorter than most people think: "Surveillance capitalism can toggle pretty quickly into digital totalitarianism." And even the best-case outcome isn't reassuring. Tech giants becoming the self-appointed arbiters of human good is, as he puts it, the fox guarding the hen house. He's not buying the idea that these companies would stay benevolent with that kind of power: "They would never ever think of using that power against us and strip mining us for our last drop of cash." The sarcasm is the point. Cameron has spent four decades imagining worst-case futures on screen. His verdict on this one: "That's a scarier scenario than what I presented in the Terminator 40 years ago, if for no other reason than it's no longer science fiction." — https://nitter.net/realBigBrainAI/status/2041901452474642630#m

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  • Teaching Critical Thinking in the Age of AI

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    @terence_mills

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    Teaching Critical Thinking in the Age of AI #AI #AIio #AIInnovation #ML #DataScience #Futureofwork @lexfridman @sama @kaifulee @ID_AA_Carmack @karpathy @2morrowknight @ylecun ow.ly/nzMe30sUVAn

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  • AI Performance Drift and Human Oversight in Future Systems

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    @scobleizer

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    Yeah, it's interesting how it drifts and gets lazy over time. Even with an amazing memory and rule set. I guess there still is a role for humans in the future. "Keep your lazy AIs working hard." 🙂

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  • Perplexity Launches Competition for AI-Driven Business Development
    Perplexity Launches Competition for AI-Driven Business Development

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    @testingcatalog

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    Perplexity will be running an 8-weeks competition where contenders will use Perplexity Computer to build businesses. Up to 1M investment and up to 1M in Computer credits. We are slowly shifting towards levels 4 (innovators) and 5 (AI orgs) on the path to AGI and more and more

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  • Teaching AI by assembling world’s smartest experts

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    @scobleizer

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    I taught it by giving it a football stadium of the world's smartest people to study. 🙂

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  • Weak Arguments About AI: Intellectual Exercise and Critique

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    @garymarcus

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    Dudes who won’t tag me because they know their arguments are weak sauce.* *for intellectual exercise you can list the flaws and misrepresentations in his argument below

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  • AGI prediction: not this decade, maybe next

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    @garymarcus

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    i have said not this decade, maybe next decade, and i will stick with that.

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  • Texas Powers AGI Race: 233 GW Demand, 432 GW Pipeline

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    @ninadschick

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    Texas is ground zero for AGI. ERCOT is processing 233 GW of new power demand requests. 70%+ Intelligence Factories. The queue has nearly quadrupled in a year. Behind it we have 432 GW of new generation in the pipeline. Solar, batteries, gas. Industrial power in Texas costs:

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  • Claude Mythos Delusional: Critical Analysis Video

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    @ceobillionaire

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    I agree with everything in this video. 10/10. No notes. Mo (@atmoio) Claude Mythos is Delusional — https://nitter.net/atmoio/status/2041935999945625745#m

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  • Mythos AI: Safety Concerns and Need for Global Regulation

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    @garymarcus

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    Some sober thinking about Mythos (full version with links at my newsletter): 1It’s probably not as bad as they say, as AI and cybersecurity expert @HeidyKhlaaf explains elsewhere (in a thread “As someone who has audited dozens of safety-critical systems, built static analysis tools, and …. here are some red flags”)
 2Whether or not Mythos is AGI per se is a red herring. (It probably isn’t; it’s telling that the report says very little about overall capabilities.) Crucially, AI doesn’t need to be AGI to cause harm! ChatGPT can’t reliably run a timer but it has still been implicated in delusions, suicides, cognitive surrender, mass disinformation, and so much more. Mythos may wreak havoc even if it hallucinates and lacks reliability outside of domains like coding and math. A system doesn’t have to be AGI to carry risks. 3The strongest lesson here is about policy. Anthropic showed some admirable restraint in not publicly releasing a potentially dangerous technology. But some of their competitors (such as OpenAI and xAI) might well not. Whether Mythos is as scary as it sounds or not, the reality is that without any government oversight on what can be released, we are entirely at the mercy of individual CEOs, some of whom have decidedly not earned our trust. 4Corollary, as pointed out to me by a friend, “it is impossible to disentangle real concerns from fear mongering being used as a marketing strategy, and so it just is not possible to separate justified panic from mere advertising which is why we need government oversight!” 5What about China? We need an international agency and treaty. That’s what I have been arguing all along. (That was the point of my 2023 TED talk, and 2023 invited essay with @AnkaReuel in The Economist). We still do. Mythos (and the reporting around Altman) only make that clearer. Self-regulation is too little, too late. The situation is this: three years of self-serving and misleading arguments about how regulation would allegedly preclude innovation has left us up shit’s creek, without a paddle. I can’t tell exactly how far Mythos (or similar competitive systems that will no doubt follow) leave us up that creek, but I do know that the time for crafting paddles is running out.

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