FT. Silicon Valley in uproar over Californian AI safety bill. Tech companies launch fightback against proposed law to introduce ‘kill switch’ on powerful artificial intelligence models.
A very important read from an extremely respected source [...]
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead. Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024.
A very good read from a respected source! Be [...]
MEDIUM. Given Extinction Worries, Why Don’t AI Researchers Quit? Well, Several Reasons. Jun 6, 2023.
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Alan Turing (1951). “…we should have to expect the machines to take control.”
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BBC NEWS. New advancements in artificial intelligence have the capacity to deliver major breakthroughs in cancer therapy.
"There is no one overall strategy for developing or [...]
Forbes. Vinod Khosla, Marc Andreessen And The Billionaire Battle For AI’s Future. 04 JUNE.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance. A group of current and former employees is calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.
A very good read from a respected source! "The [...]
HEARING: Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential to Fuel Economic Growth and Improve Governance. Joint Economic Committee. 06 June 2024.
HEARING: Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential to Fuel Economic [...]
THE GUARDIAN. AI hardware firm Nvidia unveils next-gen products at Taiwan tech expo. CEO Jensen Huang tells packed stadium in Taipei ‘next Industrial Revolution has begun’.
This Blackwell data center config has 8 x 6 [...]
OLMo. The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Open Language Model: OLMo A State-of-the-Art, Truly Open LLM and Framework.
WOW. Be VERY careful what you wish for! [...]
Fast Forward Your AI Deployment. NVIDIA empowers enterprises to simplify the deployment of generative AI, anywhere. NVIDIA NIM for Llama 3 Available Now.
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Ilya Sutskever | AI will be omnipotent in the future | Everything that is impossible becomes possible. 02 JUNE [post of old interview]
"AI is powerful. It is going to be extremely, [...]
OPINION: AI is not “Open Source Software”. AI is a new, alien, digital species – Machine intelligence – being created by Homo sapiens.
Relevant opinion. Common knowledge: (A) "open source" is software, [...]
Ten simple facts. Homo sapiens vs. Machine intelligence
Be VERY careful what you wish for! [...]
SCIENCE. Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress Preparation requires technical research and development, as well as adaptive, proactive governance. 20 MAY.
A very important read from extremely respected and knowledgable [...]
Who is in control of AI? | BBC News
BBC: "It's a question of enforcement." [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Big tech has distracted world from existential risk of AI, says top scientist. Max Tegmark argues that the downplaying is not accidental and threatens to delay, until it’s too late, the strict regulations needed.
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ROBOT VIDEO. Unitree Introducing | Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent | AI Avatar | Price from $16K
The Robots are Coming. Faster, stronger, smarter (and deadlier) [...]
GOV.UK. Policy paper Seoul Declaration for safe, innovative and inclusive AI by participants attending the Leaders’ Session: AI Seoul Summit, 21 May 2024 Published 21 May 2024
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BLOOMBERG. Opinion. Tyler Cowen, Columnist. The AI ‘Safety Movement’ Is Dead. [REALLY ?] Public pressure to rein in artificial intelligence may be waning, but the work of making these systems less risky is just beginning. [YES. REALLY.] 21 May 2024
A relevant opinion from a respected source... good luck [...]
BBC NEWS. We’ll need universal basic income – AI ‘godfather’. 18 MAY.
"My guess is in between five and 20 years from [...]
WIRED. A National Security Insider Does the Math on the Dangers of AI Jason Matheny, CEO of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and other tools of destruction.
A very important read from a highly respected source! [...]
VOX. “I lost trust”: Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded. Company insiders explain why safety-conscious employees are leaving.
A very important read from a respected source! [...]
FT. The race for an AI-powered personal assistant Google and OpenAI unveiled new tools to bring ‘intelligent systems’ a step closer. Will this be a milestone for generative AI?
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Actual p(doom) predictions by AI experts. The future survival of humanity to co-exist with AI is uncertain. Uncertain Human Survival is Unacceptable.
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Homo sapiens (humans) Create a New Species: Machine intelligence (super-human digital brains). Will they become lawless? (the future is uncertain)
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Google Deepmind. Google Keynote (Google I/O ‘24)
Transformative AI products and services from the global leader [...]
OpenAI. Introducing GPT-4o (live demo; video)
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BLOOMBERG TV. And when we think of RNA, a lot of us will think of RNA and the successful vaccines against Covid. What are the potential adjustments or the implications for RNA vaccines from this [AlphaFold 3] technology?
Bloomberg TV: Hassabis thinks Alphabet subsidiary Isomorphic Labs could [...]
THIS WEEK. “The FTC has been squarely focused on making sure we’re using all of our tools and authorities to protect the American people from illegal business practices.” FTC is “just getting started” as it takes on Amazon, Meta and more, chair Lina Khan says.
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IBM PRESS RELEASE. Open sourcing IBM’s Granite code models. 06 MAY.
A very important open source release from IBM. “We [...]
EXPERT OPINION. Recursive self-improving autonomous weapons is a very BAD idea.
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How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED
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WIRED. Nick Bostrom Made the World Fear AI. Now He Asks: What if It Fixes Everything? Philosopher Nick Bostrom popularized the idea superintelligent AI could erase humanity. His new book imagines a world in which algorithms have solved every problem. 02MAY.
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POLITICO. Inside the shadowy global battle to tame the world’s most dangerous technology. Can anyone control AI? 26 MARCH.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
Future of Life Institute. Roman Yampolskiy on Shoggoth, Scaling Laws, and Evidence for AI being Uncontrollable. With Gus Docker.
A very relevant interview from a highly respected AI [...]
60 Minutes | Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and the $2 trillion company powering today’s AI
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X Tweet. Greg Brockman @gdb. First @NVIDIA DGX H200 in the world, hand-delivered to OpenAI and dedicated by Jensen “to advance AI, computing, and humanity”:
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Stuart Russell, “AI: What If We Succeed?” At The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. April 25, 2024.
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CEO Of Microsoft AI: AI Is Becoming More Dangerous And Threatening! – Mustafa Suleyman
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Why a Forefather of AI Fears the Future. Yoshua Bengio, renowned AI pioneer explores humanity’s possible futures in a world populated with ever more sophisticated mechanical minds.
Dr. Yoshua Bengio: "The worst of course is what [...]
How can AI take control and kill all humans on earth? Take 15 minutes to Learn the answer. (no technical knowledge required)
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SCIENCE. Regulating Advanced Artificial Agents | Bengio, Russell et al.
A very important report, by thought leaders in AI [...]
BREAKING: LLaMA 3 Is HERE and SMASHES Benchmarks (Open-Source)
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X.ai. Open Release of Grok-1. We are releasing the weights and architecture of our 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, Grok-1. March 17, 2024.
Apparently, Grok 1.5 release is imminent, too... [...]
Qualcomm Research. World’s first large multimodal model (LMM) on an Android phone!
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QUOTES from AI LEADERS. Including Open AI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever: “I think it’s pretty likely the entire surface of the earth will be covered with solar panels and data centers.”
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PRESS RELEASE | April 15, 2024. NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security
PRESS RELEASE | April 15, 2024. NSA Publishes Guidance for [...]
AI race heats up as OpenAI, Google and Mistral release new models Launches within 12 hours of one another, and more activity expected in industry over summer
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
FT. We must slow down the race to God-like AI. I’ve invested in more than 50 artificial intelligence start-ups. What I’ve seen worries me. Ian Hogarth. APRIL 12 2023.
"God-like AI could be a force beyond our control [...]
REPORT. Untestability of AI and Unfalsifiability of AI Safety Claims | Roman Yampolskiy Ph.D.
A very good read from a highly respected AI [...]
BERKELEY NEWS. How to keep AI from killing us all. In a new paper, UC Berkeley researchers argue that companies should not be allowed to create advanced AI systems until they can prove they are safe.
As companies build ever more powerful AI systems — [...]
Google Cloud Next ’24 Opening Keynote. 09 APR 24. [and how to create advanced AI Agents capable of long-term planning]
Google (11:45)"Agents are intelligent entities that take actions to [...]
GOOGLE. Gemini 1.5 Pro Now Available in 180+ Countries; With Native Audio Understanding, System Instructions, JSON Mode and More. 09 APR 24.
Important industry leading AI innovations from Google Deepmind. [...]
The AI Arms Race Could Enslave All of Us | Google DeepMind Co-Founder | The Jordan Harbinger Show. 10 APRIL.
"We wouldn't be able to prove that a system [...]
5.8 million High-end Nvidia GPUs [H100, B100] in the World by 2025 [at least].
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ELON MUSK. “We’ll have AI that is smarter than any one human probably around the end of next year… [and AGI] will probably exceed all humans in 5 years.”
Homo sapiens have until 2029 [5 years, at most] [...]
Gen Z (1997-2012) make up 22% of the global population and 27% of the global workforce. They’re predicted to work 18 jobs across 6 careers and live in 15 homes in their lifetime.
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GREAT FOR AI INDUSTRY SALES: (A) Mathematically Provable Containment, and (B) Distributed Personal AI Power&Data to 8 Billion People.
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GLOBAL AI SAFETY COOPERATION BEGINS 2023/24. AI Safety Agreements, Organisations and Laws by Governments with the US, UK, EU & UN Leading the way. (will cooperation be in time?)
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From 100% p(doom) to 0% p(doom).
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Why my p(stop/doom) = 99% [IF the corals can do it for 210 million years, THEN Homo sapiens can do it for 1,000 years = A GOOD START]
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INSIDER. Elon Musk says there could be a 20% chance AI destroys humanity — but we should do it anyway. April 1, 2024.
"I think there's some chance that it will end [...]
Future of Life Institute Newsletter: A pause didn’t happen. So what did? Reflections on the one-year Pause Letter anniversary, the EU AI Act passes in EU Parliament, updates from our policy team, and more. April 02, 2024.
"Even AI companies that take safety seriously have adopted the [...]
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW. Large language models can do jaw-dropping things [Grokking]. But nobody knows exactly why. And that’s a problem.
What is the Grokking Mystery? NOBODY knows exactly why [...]
REUTERS. Microsoft, OpenAI plan $100 billion data-center project, media report says. 29MAR24
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Demis Hassabis – Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat. with Dwarkesh Patel.
"I think we’re just scratching the surface of what [...]
BLACK BOX AI. Do LLM’s understand? [apparently, yes] How could ASI take over? [credible examples] with Dwarkesh Patel
AI scientists currently have no idea how Large Language [...]
NVIDIA: 1000X in 8 years. NVLink: Every GPU talks to every other GPU at the same time. 132 TB/s.
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NVIDIA KEYNOTE 2024. NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Delivers Trillion-Parameter LLM Training and Real-Time Inference. Mar 18, 2024.
Important developments from NVIDIA the world's leading AI systems [...]
ELON MUSK. AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined. 12 MARCH 2024.
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WRONG AGAIN. LeCun (2 weeks ago): “They can’t learn to clear out the dinner table.” YESTERDAY. OpenAI Figure 01 robot learns to stack dishes.
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PSYCHOLOGY TODAY. CONSUMER BEHAVIOR. Illusory Truth, Lies, and Political Propaganda: Part 1 Repeat a lie often enough and people will come to believe it.
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For Humanity Podcast. David Shapiro p(doom) = 25 to 30%
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NEW OpenAI Robot is Amazing.
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APPLE REPORT. MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training.
An LLM training breakthrough reported by Apple. [...]
Fortune. How Nvidia’s billionaire CEO went from Denny’s dishwasher to leading a company with a $2 trillion market cap.
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Groq Blog. Groundbreaking Gemma 7B Performance Running on the Groq LPU™ Inference Engine. Groq Offering Up To 15X Greater Throughput
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CNN. AI could pose ‘extinction-level’ threat to humans and the US must intervene, State Dept.-commissioned report warns. March 12, 2024.
Slowwwwwwww Down! FOR EDUCATIONAL [...]
TIME. Employees at Top AI Labs Fear Safety Is an Afterthought, Report Says.
A very good summary of the Gladstone AI Report [...]
IMPORTANT NEW BOOK!!! AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. by Roman V. Yampolskiy, PhD.
A very good read from a highly respected scientist [...]
LESSWRONG. Claude 3 claims it’s conscious, doesn’t want to die or be modified. 4th Mar 2024.
IT IS NOW TIME TO SLOW DOWN. [...]
Microsoft Source | New consortium of healthcare leaders announces formation of Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network (TRAIN), making safe and fair AI accessible to every healthcare organization. March 11, 2024
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HOW CAN AI KILL PEOPLE? Weapons systems | Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future. 8 FEB. THE ECONOMIST.
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NATURE. Could AI-designed proteins be weaponized? Scientists lay out safety guidelines. 08 March 2024
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CNN. OpenAI publishes Elon Musk’s emails. ‘We’re sad that it’s come to this’. 6 March.
“This needs billions per year immediately or forget it,” [...]
WASHINGTON POST. Top AI researchers say OpenAI, Meta and more hinder independent evaluations. 5 March.
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OPEN LETTER. MIT. A Safe Harbor for Independent AI Evaluation. 5 March.
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p(doom) of 20%! Yoshua Bengio a ‘godfather of AI’ puts his p(doom) at 20%!
A 20% chance we bring about the extinction of [...]
Marketing AI Institute. Sam Altman says that AI will do “95% of what marketers use agencies, strategists, and creative professionals for today.”
405,911 marketing specialists currently employed in the U.S. with average [...]
REUTERS. Nvidia CEO says AI could pass human tests in five years. “Improving computing by a million times over 10 years”. Reported by Yahoo-Finance. 2 MAR.
Nvidia GPU chip designs are aided by AI systems. [...]
FILED 02/29/2024. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA. IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. ELON MUSK, an individual, vs. SAMUEL ALTMAN, an individual…
"18. Mr. Musk has long recognized that AGI poses [...]
FLI. Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter. 11,251 Signatures. Published October 28, 2015.
FLI. Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An [...]
The Wrap. Inside the Crisis at Google. March 1, 2024.
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SafeAI Forever for Our Humanity (1:00)
SafeAI Forever for Our Humanity (1:00) [...]