At today's @StanfordHAI seminar, Dave Patterson and @andykonwinski discussed themes from their paper "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives." They argued that we are still in the early days of practical AI, and that collaborative efforts can guide AI's impact.
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H2O AI and AT&T Partner on Sovereign AI for Greater Good
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“We want to direct this high-speed, high-velocity AI transformation toward the greater good of the people, the greater good of the planet.”
— H2O.ai (@h2oai) 21 mai 2025
– Sri Ambati, @h2oai
At #DellTechWorld, @SriAmbati and @ATT's Jennifer Berquist shared how we're bringing Sovereign AI to life — secure,… pic.twitter.com/1aMKKng6Z7“We want to direct this high-speed, high-velocity AI transformation toward the greater good of the people, the greater good of the planet.”
– Sri Ambati, @h2oai At #DellTechWorld, @SriAmbati and @ATT
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Ultimate AGI Benchmark: Can AI Master Humor?
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Ultimate AGI benchmark: humor!https://t.co/S1V84hHX6B
— Oriol Vinyals (@OriolVinyalsML) 21 mai 2025Ultimate AGI benchmark: humor!
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World Expands Investment in Proof of Human Technology
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World has made outstanding progress in advancing Proof of Human — a necessary technology standard in the age of AI — while protecting people's privacy. We've been continually impressed with the project and are excited to expand our investment.
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Microsoft Recall: AI Integration Threatens Desktop Privacy
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The rushed integration of AI into everything is a major threat to privacy, as we've been saying. Microsoft Recall is a great (not great!) example of exactly why–it screenshots everything on your desktop, to give AI the data to tell you…what you were doing on desktop.
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Social Sycophancy: How LLMs Preserve User Self-Image
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Dear ChatGPT, Am I the Asshole? While Reddit users might say yes, your favorite LLM probably won’t. We present Social Sycophancy: a new way to understand and measure sycophancy as how LLMs overly preserve users' self-image.
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Karen Hao honored by Guardian’s thorough book profile and review
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Wow I'm so honored by this deeply thorough profile and review from the @guardian
, which delves into every facet of the book, from OpenAI's inside story to my reporting in Kenya & Chile to my empire argument: "Tense and absorbing"
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Google’s AI Nuclear Bomb: Key Updates
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🚨 BREAKING: Google just dropped an AI NUCLEAR BOMB.
— God of Prompt (@godofprompt) 21 mai 2025
Imagen 4, Veo 3, Flow, AI mode in search, Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think, Project Astra, and Agent mode.
Here's everything you need to know: pic.twitter.com/syDXsSDdrpBREAKING: Google just dropped an AI NUCLEAR BOMB. Imagen 4, Veo 3, Flow, AI mode in search, Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think, Project Astra, and Agent mode. Here's everything you need to know:
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LLMs Enable More Precise Cyberattacks on Personal Data
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LLMs are fundamentally changing cyberattacks. This new paper from Anthropic and Google shows that LLMs Extract passwords, credit cards, and SSNs with higher precision Mine sensitive personal info for tailored blackmail Lower the cost of targeting vulnerable software
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AI Facial Expression Limitations and Sarcasm Detection Challenges
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I think it’s also because she can’t move her face. So even if she was trying to be playfully sarcastic as some say, it’s hard to tell.
