If countries were actually pursuing AGI, it would be a frantic race over which country is controlled first by the provably optimal problem solving agent, but it’s not like the other countries will not be run by it too. AGI should easily outsmart all human level governace.
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Magic AI Startup Achieves Major Breakthrough in Active Reasoning
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Magic, a startup building AI coding “coworkers”, claims to have made a massive AI breakthrough. The startup claims its model now can ingest up to 3.5M words (nearly 5x Gemini 1.5) and made an ‘active reasoning’ breakthrough reminiscent of OpenAI's Q*.
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Learning Similarities Between Children and Artificial Intelligence Systems
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What fresh insights can we gain from studying similarities and differences in learning between children and AI? Listen to this episode of The Future of Everything podcast with @Rbaltman and @stanfordeng
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Gemini 1.5 Pro Self-Implements Support in Open Source Codebase
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I showed Gemini 1.5 Pro the ENTIRE Self-Operating Computer codebase, and an example Gemini 1.5 API call. From there, it was able to perfectly explain how the codebase works… and then it implemented itself as a new supported model for the repo! Not perfect, but very close.
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Yann’s Open Pursuit of AGI and Bold Research Leadership
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Yann is not "secretly" interested in AGI, but openly. Also, he tends to be very clear and direct about what he believes and why. He is one of the more opinionated research leaders, willing to risk being wrong, which I admire about him, because it helps progress.
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Levels of Lucidity: Building on Kegan’s Framework
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I did not read Wilber, I started from Kegan and rebuilt the idea to accommodate my observations. Here is a summary https://
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Panpsychism vs Physicalism: Mental States as Control Representations
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Panpsychists tend to hold that consciousness cannot be reduced (explained) and is therefore an intrinsic part of matter (eg electrons have mental states). My position is compatible with physicalism and maintains that mental states are representations created by control processes.
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Exploring AGI: Moving Beyond Scale in Rapidly Evolving AI
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Thanks @BetaMoroney With #AI rapidly evolving, beyond the imagination of many, it is time to explore what it takes to go beyond #scale and to achieve #AGI @mvollmer1 @Nicochan33 @alvinfoo @PawlowskiMario @HaroldSinnott @Hana_ElSayyed @KirkDBorne
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Sam Altman’s $7T AI Venture and Project Izanagi Merger Discussion
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$100 Billion is an insane amount of money, but almost seems puny compared to Sam's $7T. While Project Izanagi and Sam Altman's venture are seperate, the two have reportedly spoken about potentially ‘joining forces’.
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SoftBank launches Project Izanagi: $100B AI chip venture
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SoftBank founder and billionaire Masayoshi Son is reportedly looking to raise $100B to launch ‘Project Izanagi’.
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 19 février 2024
The AI chip venture aims to compete with NVIDIA and push towards AGI.
$30B is potentially from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern backers. pic.twitter.com/5bpX6pDcAHSoftBank founder and billionaire Masayoshi Son is reportedly looking to raise $100B to launch ‘Project Izanagi’. The AI chip venture aims to compete with NVIDIA and push towards AGI. $30B is potentially from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern backers.