An AI program became Jeopardy world champion in February 2011, 12 years ago. According to its creators, it was supposed to replace most doctors. Many interpreted the milestone as meaning that we were close to AI that would render tens of millions of people jobless.
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Twitter Bots Suppress China Protest Posts With Spam Ads
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How Twitter Bots Drowned Out Posts About Protests in China: Chinese protesters shared videos and photos to Twitter. But their posts were swarmed by escort and gambling ads. https://
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Generative AI Must Become Infrastructure for Humanity
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And I couldn’t agree more with him. Generative AI has to be infrastructure for humanity. He made this point very poignantly when I interviewed him recently: https://
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Tech4Democracy and Social Contract Projects Updates
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Muchas gracias, Karma! Hay algunos ya ongoing que puedes ver en la web, como el del contrato social o Tech4Democracy. Iré informando
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First AGI Wish: Ensuring Safe Beneficial Superintelligence
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The year is 2030, and AGI has just been created. You are lucky to be the first to make one wish. What do you ask for, and how do you make sure things don't go horribly wrong?
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YouTube Addiction: Digital Stupor Mirrors Alcoholism Patterns
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“I feel like my use of YouTube has basically mirrored their alcoholism at this point. If anything, I spend more time in stupor than they did with alcohol.” https://
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Musk Asks Twitter Users Whether He Should Step Down
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Musk Asks Twitter Users If He Should Step Down After Fury Over His Policies: Fury mounted over Mr. Musk’s moves to prevent Twitter users from sharing links to other social media platforms. The billionaire also asked whether… https://
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Integrity and Authenticity in the Age of AI Culture
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I can see a hybrid scenario that is workable. Being shameless about your integrity and cringe to the people who are cringey is an option.
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Peterson warns AI threatens shared reality and social cohesion
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Peterson wrote at the time: "Wake up. The sanctity of your voice, and your image, is at serious risk. It’s hard to imagine a more serious challenge to the sense of shared, reliable reality that keeps us linked together in relative peace"
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AI Progress Hype: Gap Between Expectations and Actual Capabilities
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Recall that circa 2015-2016 AI was about to replace half of all jobs, including all drivers, most doctors, etc. People's perception of AI progress is rarely grounded in actual capabilities — people are always projecting their hopes on the latest hype trend (e.g. deep RL)