We have no technical ability to make an AI with that goal, nor any other goal.
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ChatGPT: Thumbs-up vs. Actual Human Desires Not Yet Separated
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ChatGPT is mostly not at the point where "what makes a human thumb-up" and "what the human wants" have been pried apart by hard optimization. (Unless you're a lawyer who blindly accepts made-up case citations.)
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Hospital AI adverse events rate reaches 34.8 per admissions
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What you get for that high cost
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Prioritizing Risk Regulation: Drugs, Viruses, and AGI Research
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Actually, I'd personally say it should be much easier to go sell a new drug that only injures voluntary customers in the worst case? But do shut down gain-of-function virus research which could kill millions of non-customers. And shut down AGI research that could kill everyone. https://t.co/89BRlZwWD5
— Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ (@ESYudkowsky) 30 juin 2023Actually, I'd personally say it should be much easier to go sell a new drug that only injures voluntary customers in the worst case? But do shut down gain-of-function virus research which could kill millions of non-customers. And shut down AGI research that could kill everyone.
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George Hotz on ML, Self-Driving, Reality and Twitter
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Here's my conversation with @realGeorgeHotz
, his 3rd time on the podcast. We discuss everything from the nature of time & reality to the future of ML, programming, self-driving & his time at Twitter. George is always fascinating and super fun to talk to! https://
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Data AI Summit 2026 Event Announcement
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We're so excited! Make sure you're tuned in #DataAISummit
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Waiting for the next training curve datapoint
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that feeling when you are awaiting the next datapoint in your training curve to arrive
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Pretrained Language Models: Looking Back at NLP Progress
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I love looking back at our old @stateofai
… In 2019, we wrote that pretrained language models were making it big in NLP… "This method could be further scaled up to generate gains in NLP tasks and unlock many new commercial applications in the same way that transfer -
Major ML Conferences Adopt Research Track for Papers
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Thanks for the kind words!! Over 30 papers used this track for ICML. NeurIPS and ICLR are committed to continue with the track, and ICML will decide after this year's conference.
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First Machine Unlearning Challenge Launched by Researchers
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Machine unlearning, an emerging #ML subfield, aims to remove the influence of a subset of training data from a trained model. To advance its development, we’ve teamed up with other researchers to organize the first Machine Unlearning Challenge. Read more →
https://
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