Back to the paper: I finally brought myself to read the reviews. They were mostly aligned: we identify real, valid, problems, but we don't solve them. Agreed. That wasn't our intent. We're laying out multiple research programs, not something we can wrap up in one paper. 13/n
AGI
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Research Rejection and Career Anxiety in AI Academia
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Remember, I said this paper felt core to my research agenda. A blatant rejection caused me to (incorrectly) generalize the feeling that my entire research agenda was misguided. For reasons, I was pretty career anxious at that time, and truly distraught (ask my wife). 11/n
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GoodAI Raises Funds for AI People Game Project with Simulated NPCs
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Congrats to Artificial Agency on raising $16M for their NPC middleware startup! At GoodAI, we're taking a different path: building a complete game with our AI People project. We're revolutionizing NPCs, moving from scripted behaviors to fully simulated minds that think, feel,
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Explaining AI Complexity to Children: A Challenge
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I tried to explain what’s going on to my 7 year old and uhhhh it was pretty much impossible given the bizarreness of reality
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Fear the absence of superintelligence more than its presence
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Don't fear superintelligence, fear not having it.
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Real AGI: Building Superhuman Brains for Any System
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Real AGI is knowing how to build a superhuman brain for any set of sensors and actuators.
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Should we build viscerally felt artificial emotions?
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Yes, but do we really want viscerally felt artificial emotions? What would be the rationale for building it, other than curiosity?
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Alpha Launch Coming This Month, General Availability Following
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alpha starts later this month, GA will come a bit after
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AI Pricing and Distance from AGI Achievement
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AI that costs $20/month is very, very far from AGI.
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Newborn Binary States: Innate Good-Bad Feedback Mechanisms
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I thought about newborn babies and how they already come "pre-wired" feeling the 2 physical states of good/bad. Hungry, cold, wet => distress signal. All systems go => quiet.