According to @jeffclune there is a 30% chance we will achieve AGI by 2030 (defined as AI capable of doing 50% of economically valuable human work)
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Jürgen Schmidhuber’s Fascination with Metalearning and Algorithm Innovation
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Now Jürgen Schmidhuber @SchmidhuberAI He is most fascinated by metalearning — systems that invent learning algorithms for new types of problems.
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Ben Goertzel predicts AGI arrival within 3-5 years timeline
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Now @bengoertzel who helped coin the term AGI is discussing says that we may get there in "3-5 years and even if it were 20 years, that's still very soon."
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AI Debate on Innateness and Physical Embodiment of Intelligence
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Fascinating discussion right now at the https://
agidebate.com where @YejinChoinka and @dileeplearning are discussing innateness and physical embodiment of AI. Dileep says he's changing his mind since a few weeks ago about how to learn spatial representations. #AI -
Amazon’s 1998 Memo Origins of Workflow State Tracking Models
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so excited to find the origins of the workflow model in this 1998 internal Amazon memo – I think this directly led to AWS SWF and Temporal. it turned out that tracking state changes wasn't just an afterthought, but should be the basis of the entire thing
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Synthetic Data Innovation for Robust Financial Models
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New ways of generating synthetic data to develop robust financial models is just one way that Mohit Jain at @BNYMellonWealth is driving data science innovation. Learn tips from him and 9 others in our new ebook! https://
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OPT-175B: Free Open-Source GPT-3 Alternative Available
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Everyone is talking about #ChatGPT and #GPT3, but did you know there was a free, #opensource version of GPT-3 called OPT-175B? No login, no credit card needed! 😉 https://
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AGI Debate Gathers Nearly 20,000 Registered Attendees Worldwide
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AGI DEBATE: TODAY 19,847 REGISTERED ATTENDEES! "The Debate The World Is Waiting For" Website: http://
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aidebate3.eventbrite.ca It takes a village… Five panels of the world's most distinguished researchers and experts on AGI. #AGI #AIDebate #AGIDebate -
AI Progress Speed: Missing The Continuous Improvement Blind Spot
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The repeated blind spot I see with people about AI is that their main reply is "it's not good enough" and "not passable as human" etc. But that all implies millions of people aren't working to improve it every day If you wait until it's good enough you're too late
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AI-Generated Content Indistinguishable From Reality With Fine-Tuning
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Sure but that's only cause I barely tried to give it a specific style. Now imagine this with a bit more effort, finetuned to a specific style. It'll be impossible to distinguish from real. Whether that's good or bad I'm not to judge