1. The amount of data in the human genome is small: 800MB. The difference between chimp and human genomes is about 8MB. That's just not enough "instructions" to explain the difference in capability. 2. The total amount of visual data seen by a 2 year-old is pretty small:
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Woman who challenged Sam Altman on AGI perspectives
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Some weeks ago, I spoke to
@hlntnr
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Tech Tonic podcast on artificial general intelligence. A LOT has happened since, but here’s a glimpse into the perspective of the woman who took on Sam Altman, on
@FT
News Briefing this morning https://
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Socially Contentious Questions in AI Development
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Answering the second part of that question is socially contentious.
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AI Technology Safety and Existential Risks Discussion with Hinton
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If you want to watch an #AI talk (esp. after some nice #Thanksgiving meal) ranging from the technology itself to its safety, societal and existential issues, I’m proud of this conversation (and friendly debate) I had with @geoffreyhinton Direct link: https://
youtu.be/E14IsFbAbpI?fe
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Pushing Back Against Compliance Teams: Rights and Escalation
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“Can you actually push back against a Compliance team?” Oh yeah. Heck, individual customers can push back against a Compliance team. “Can you define ‘push back’?” They tell them you can’t X. You argue you can. Someone there or senior to them backs your argument.
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AI Monitoring Compliance and Legal Obligations for Organizations
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If you hire me as a consultant, and I tell you you should probably improve your onboarding flow, and you don’t, you will not go to prison. Would be crazy. If your monitoring consultants tell you to improve your onboarding flow, and you don’t, you have agreed to go to prison.
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Compelled Speech Doctrine and Private AI Systems Regulation
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As one sub issue, consider the compelled speech doctrine. The USFG broadly can’t force private actors to say something they don’t believe. This includes performing work which embeds speech acts, like producing reports and analyses that would not exist but for compulsion.
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Sweden Report Editorial: AI Healthcare Impact Analysis
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Editorial accompanying Sweden report https://
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Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster Linked to AI Breakthrough Letter
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Hmm https://
cnbc.com/amp/2023/11/22
/sam-altmans-ouster-at-openai-precipitated-by-letter-to-board-about-ai-breakthrough-sources-tell-reuters.html
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Q* Algorithm’s Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI
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Interesting that it was concerns of an algorithm called Q* that fed in part into Sam Altman's ouster, per Reuters. Some of my sources say they would not consider Q* a big breakthrough. Keen to hear from other researchers in the company about their opinion. https://
reuters.com/technology/sam
-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/
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