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Sam Altman teases Project Strawberry and major AI breakthroughs
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AI4Science Hype Cycle and VC Funding Limitations for Complex Problems
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I have a feeling AI4Science is now entering an overhyped period … AI4Sustainability is great but many sustainability challenges cannot be solved by AI and AI4Sustainability can be a distraction … Increasingly I feel VC $$ are not great at solving "wicked problems" ….
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Redirecting VC Funding from Hyped LLMs to AI4Science and Sustainability
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So maybe it is time to reroute all those VC $$ to AI4Science and AI4Sustainability and away from LLMs which are currently too hyped up. That bubble is about to deflate to a more reasonable valuation I would think.
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Google’s DeepMind Acquisition: A Potentially Undervalued Deal
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Google really underpaid for DeepMind.
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Model Providers Race to Match OpenAI Endpoint Compatibility
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My hunch is that the rest of the model providers will quickly follow suit to maintain compatibility with the OpenAI endpoint.
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CTOs and CIOs Forced to Integrate Generative AI Everywhere
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Pity all the CTOs and CIOs who have better things to do but now have to spend their time ramming generative Al into everything their company does.
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Information Access and AI Competitiveness: North Korea Case Study
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In theory North Korea should be winning bigly under your assertion. They can read all the US scientific papers but keep their own genius to themselves.
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Open vs Closed Source Models Economic Cultural Implications
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Yeah that's a common claim amongst leaders that try closing their economies. But you end up with sucky people and a sucky culture and it never works out well. Closed source models vs open source models is a very different question to closed economies vs open economies.
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China US AI Competition and Scientific Participation Impact
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Greatly accelerate relative progress of China vs US. They would be able to fully participate in the global scientific community, whereas US would be hamstrung. Pre-meiji Japan thought that they would be best staying closed. It doesn't work great in practice.
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US Tech Dominance and Open Source Rise: A Parallel Evolution
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The period during which US tech became most dominant is the period during which open source became dominant. These things are obviously not inconsistent.