Wow. This is huge. The first time (I'm aware of) that an OpenAI exec has publicly stated that they believe OpenAI is clearly prioritizing capabilities over safety research. Massive implications, in many ways.
ETHICS
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OpenAI internal factions drama: Altman and leadership departures explained
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Si queréis entender el drama de las dos facciones de OpenAI que motivó el despido de Altman en Noviembre y la salida reciente de Ilya y Jan, en este hilo están las claves (que en parte ya se conocían)
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Regulate AI regulations to prevent existential threats to humanity
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We need to regulate AI regulations. If we don't pause and reassess how we regulate and ban AI, the regulations themselves could pose an existential threat to humanity. Criminalizing developers is not the solution.
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Next Generation Voice Interfaces: Adapting Technology to Human Expression
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Maybe the next generation will go back to voice 🙂 I really hope we can preserve human ways of expressivity by making the devices adapt to us, instead of us adapt to the devices… Sounds like the latter has already taken this generation!
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Children’s Social Media Device Access: College Age Recommendation
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Makes a strong case for why my children should not have personal/social media-activated devices until they’re in college..
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ML Training CO2 Emissions: Debunking Highly Cited Misinformation
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I discussed misinformation in the area of CO2 emissions from ML training, where one highly cited paper has a misleading and incorrect estimate that is off by 88X from the actual CO2 emissions of a one-time neural architecture search done by So et al., and is off by 118,000X from
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SPUs: Soul-Powered Computing 10^10x Faster Than H100s
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SPUs (Soul Processing Units) are 10^10 times more powerful than H100s but takes a human soul to operate for a full day
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The Future: AI as Cake, Humanity as Raisins
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The future is a raisin cake, where AI is the cake and people are the raisins.
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Slack’s AI Data Usage Policy: Addressing User Privacy Concerns
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Saw a tweet questioning Slack’s policy about using user data in AI, and was impressed w the post they linked to in the reply. Thorough and descriptive – addressing concerns one by one. Well done!
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AI as Final Copernican Revolution: Intelligence Not Special
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AI will be the final Copernican revolution, showing that not even our intelligence is special.