Melted sand has no soul. But will tell you all about souls. And I know a guy who is giving AI soul. So all bets are off. π
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Teaching AI New Skills Unlocks Innovation and Dream Achievement
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If you can teach the AI something new you have a chance of reaching your dreams.
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National Innovation Policy to Compete with China
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We need a national innovation policy.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 10 novembre 2024
Include other nations too. Everyone will have trouble competing with the Chinese. https://t.co/JXzdB7wCvVWe need a national innovation policy. Include other nations too. Everyone will have trouble competing with the Chinese.
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Outstanding AI insights worth sharing regularly
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One of the best posts about AI have seen in months. Please send me more.
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Missing Ilya: Talented Researcher and Great Communicator
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God I miss Ilya. Not only is he an incredibly talented researcher, he also knows how to explain complicated things simply. And that is an art. I have great hope in ssi https://
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DeepMath Debate: Transformers Can Solve All Problems
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With regard to the debate about the new Math benchmark, Kamil correctly referred once again to DeepMind, who have very clearly stated that they have mathematically proven that transformers can solve all (!) problems. In this respect, it is only a question of time.
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AI Development Breakthrough with OpenAI O1 and Path to AGI
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The statement that the development of AI is slowing down or coming to an end has now been debunked as BS and proven false.
With OpenAI's breakthrough with O1 and CoT, there is no end in sight to development. Q* aka Strawberry was the breakthrough that brings us to AGI; that's why -
OpenAI unlikely to merge GPT-5 and o1 before 2026
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You are right, they are going to merge them. However, probably not 2025, as inference-cost for o1 is still too high. That's why I assume there will be one "regular" LLM like GPT-5 (or whatever it's called) and one reasoning model. No merge before 2026
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o1’s CoT: Real Thinking vs. Imitation in AI Models
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Jasein Wei, @OpenAI researcher has written a great post on how CoT at o1 differs from CoT prompting. And it is clearly different. CoT prompting ultimately just imitates thinking, but doesn't actually do it. CoT at o1, on the other hand, triggers an inner monologue in the model,