This is of course my own take (what with having explicitly predicted this). But I do think you want to hold out a space for others to say, "Well *I* didn't predict it, and now I've updated."
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Gary’s AI Skepticism Shifts from Limitations to Safety Concerns
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Gary always hates AI, but notice how he has gone from "end to end learning will never work" and "deep learning has hit a wall" to "we are so screwed because now it works too well"
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Limitations of Training AI Models on Synthetic and Video Data
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But you can't just fit a big curve to a bunch of UE5 screencaps and YouTube videos and expect a generalizable model of the real world. That is not how these models work.
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Mental World Models vs Video Generation: Survival-Optimized Cognition
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Our own mental world models are probably not as capable as video generation models, as in we can’t ‘generate’ a stream of high resolution detailed images at 30fps. Instead, our mental world models are highly optimized to facilitate our survival as an individual and as a species.
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Technology Promotion Despite Fair Use Legal Concerns
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It's not really about the debate then: it's agreed to be prima facie infringement and may be considered Fair Use in certain limited cases. It's about promoting the technology despite it being questionable in order to legitimise it…
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AI Ethics and Historical Exploitation in Museums
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Do you consider this tweet, which you hid, to be "insulting or aggressive"? It raises great points about AI in the context of exploitation and historical abuses — a critical debate to be had publicly for museums. https://
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Questioning Arguments Against LLM Physics Understanding
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So you argument against LLM understanding physics is what exactly?
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Does Dead Brain Experience Subjective Consciousness?
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If you die, and the coroner takes your head and points it into the direction of the camera, do you think you have subjective experience?
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AI Tools Users Bear Responsibility for Outputs and Actions
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Just like any tool used by humans in the past, individuals or institutions using AI tools should be responsible for the outputs or actions produced by such tools.
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Air Canada Must Honor Chatbot-Invented Refund Policy
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“Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot”