Lebowski Theorem: "No superintelligent AI is going to bother with a task that is harder than hacking its reward function." #AGI #AGIFirst
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Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit Relies on Microsoft AI Research
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Why Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit Leans on #AI Research From Microsoft
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Impressive AI Demo Shows Remarkable Persistence Complex Shapes
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Honestly this is the most impressive demo I have seen yet and the one I find really hard to wrap my head around. There is persistence of complex shapes and images through multiple angles and distances & thematic consistency from the start to the end with relatively minor issues. https://t.co/NueYEzraRW
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 3 mars 2024Honestly this is the most impressive demo I have seen yet and the one I find really hard to wrap my head around. There is persistence of complex shapes and images through multiple angles and distances & thematic consistency from the start to the end with relatively minor issues.
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Neuropsychological Hazards: Information-Based Harm and AI Safety
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And then there is the science fiction favorite – the Neuropsychological Hazard, where information will actually cause physical harm. Triggering epileptics is one real example, mentioning MacBeth at a theater a fictional one. A list of more Basilisks: https://
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Information Hazards: Psychological Risks in Social Media
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Psychological reaction hazard: "Information can reduce well-being by causing sadness, disappointment, or some other psychological effect in the receiver." We know this actually happens in social media from experiments 6/
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Information Hazards: Conspiracy Theories Mental State Vulnerability
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Evocation hazards: there may be particular information that, when people encounter it, triggers them. This is not just in the common sense of triggering past trauma, but that some conspiracy theories or memes might be unusually tempting to people in particular mental states. 3/
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Information Hazards: How Knowledge Can Cause Harm
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How can knowing something hurt you? Information can sometimes cause harm (think of the annoyance of seeing spoilers as a tiny example). This paper on information hazards was prescient about many of the issues we face today. So, a on some of the hazards of knowledge… 1/
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ML Advances 3D Capture Quality Despite Performance Loading Challenges
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ML can finally clean up 3D captures to be actually good now instead of just novel — 3D photos will be a significant value to almost everyone that likes 2D photos. Taking 100x as long to load as a normal photo in social media feeds will be a significant headwind, though.
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LLM Water Waste Unjustified Until Nuclear Energy Scales
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Experts agree nuclear will take anywhere from 10 or more years to scale and right NOW the water being used for LLM tools that,
@GaryMarcus and other trusted experts remind us DAILY are more flawed than helpful overall, is NOT justified. Period. We are WASTING water NOW.