"Intelligence is dangerous" is the axiom of obscurantism.
ETHICS
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Top ML Papers of the Week: SLAM, LLMs, Medical AI
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The Top ML Papers of the Week (Dec 11 – Dec 17): – Gaussian-SLAM
– LLMs in Medicine
– Mathematical LLMs
– Beyond Human Data for LLMs
– Weak-to-strong Generalization
– Towards Fully Transparent Open-Source LLM
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Personal AI Not a Reason for Doomsday Predictions
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A little bit overexaggeration, aren’t we? To have a personal ai, with lip sync and a pretty face is no reason for doomerism. It’s just an ai waifu for people that masturbated on WoW nightelfs before.
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Open Source AI Democratizes Power Against Institutional Control
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Technologies that empower humans by increasing communication, knowledge, and effective intelligence always cause opposition from people, governments, or institutions who want control and fear other humans.
The arguments against open source AI today mirror older arguments against -
Superhuman AI Emergence: Progressive Development Toward Advanced Systems
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The emergence of superhuman AI will not be an event. Progress is going to be progressive.
It will start with systems that can learn how the world works, like baby animals.
Then we'll have machines that are objective driven and that satisfy guardrails.
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Is AI Really Smarter Than Humans at Games?
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Obviously, AI is smarter than you because it can beat you at chess, go, poker, and a few other games.
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Microsoft AFL-CIO AI Partnership Raises Workforce Skepticism
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See: https://
news.microsoft.com/2023/12/11/afl
-cio-and-microsoft-announce-new-tech-labor-partnership-on-ai-and-the-future-of-the-workforce/
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Meta’s FAIR Lab Marks 10 Years of Fundamental AI Research
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Nice segment on CBS about AI research for the 10th anniversary of Meta's Fundamental AI Research lab (FAIR): the necessity of open research, AI risks and benefits, the future, AI assistants and domestic robots.
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Existential Anxiety in AI Development and Society
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definitely some sort of existential anxiety rooted in there