OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE – PLEASE READ If intelligence becomes something people can only rent from a few closed institutions, the public does not just lose software freedom. It loses operational freedom. AI is a civilizational infrastructure for work, education, science, software,
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Healthcare Providers Sued Over AI Transcription Systems
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Major Healthcare Providers Hit With Class Action Over AI Transcriptions
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Sam Altman quoted 1984: Opensource AI must win
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Reminds me of that onetime Sam Altman quoted me 1984, we cannot entrust things to not go wrong with a few “big brothers” in charge Opensource AI MUST WIN
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LLMs often make illegal moves; article’s validity doubted
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LLMs often make illegal moves; i don;t know that this article held up.
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AI Risk: Concentration of Power and Economic Gains
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The most important AI risk is concentration: of power, capabilities, and economic gains
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Gary Marcus contrasts past AI science with current greed
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Disagree. Certainly there has always been hype, but not this kind of unabashed greed or indifference to social consequence. People always courted funding to be sure, but people like Minsky and McCarthy (I met both) were primarily interested in science and ideas; money was
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AI: An Addictive Satisfaction That Demands Strong Psychological Resilience
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I can assure you that #AI as it is today requires a psychological strength that I had underestimated. The grip is very strong, perhaps explained by the level of satisfaction it provides, which is so high that one cannot easily get away from it.
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Does AI stop harming people after they turn 18?
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Also… does AI somehow not harm people once they turn 18?
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Benchmarks are gameable and 100% is hard due to glitches
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1. some other criteria, since benchmarks can often be gamed: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/where-will-ai-be-at-the-end-of-2027?r=8tdk6&utm_medium=ios
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Request for publication of GPT-4 architecture to clarify water estimates
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Given the scale of water estimates for the "bottle of water per generated email" that come from assumptions about GPT-4's architecture, it would be greatly in the interest of @OpenAI to publish the architecture of this now-retired, three-year-old model.