WIRED. How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun. It’ll take over the world. It won’t subjugate humans. For Meta’s chief AI scientist, both things are true. 22 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
NIST Calls for Information to Support Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. 19 DEC.
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OpenAI. Preparedness. The Preparedness team is dedicated to making frontier AI models safe. 18 DEC.
An important development from a leading AI company! [...]
OpenAI. Weak-to-Strong Generalisation: Eliciting Strong Capabilities With Weak Supervision. [probably won’t work]
An interesting read from a respected source. However... Stuart [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE. Delivering on the Promise of AI to Improve Health Outcomes. 14 DEC.
A very good start! 28 providers and payers commitments: [...]
Meta. Trust and safety. Welcome to Purple Llama. Empowering developers, advancing safety, and building an open ecosystem.
A very good start from a respected source! (but [...]
BUSINESS INSIDER. We now have more info on what Sam Altman did that was so bad he got fired from OpenAI. 10 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
THE WASHINGTON POST. Opinion. AI is forcing teachers to confront an existential question. 12 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
AGI (and the ASI Intelligence Explosion) is Closer than you think… a lot Closer! It could be already happening.
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News. European Parliament. Press Releases. Artificial Intelligence Act: deal on comprehensive rules for trustworthy AI . 09 December 2023.
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Council of the EU. Press release. 9 December 2023. Artificial intelligence act: Council and Parliament strike a deal on the first rules for AI in the world.
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Gemini: Google’s newest and most capable AI model.
Wow! BRAVO to Google. Gemini is a very important [...]
Canada.ca. Voluntary Code of Conduct on the Responsible Development and Management of Advanced Generative AI Systems. From: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric. Where do you fall on the doom scale — is artificial intelligence a threat to humankind? And if so, how high is the risk?
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. How Nations Are Losing a Global Race to Tackle A.I.’s Harms. Alarmed by the power of artificial intelligence, Europe, the United States and others are trying to respond — but the technology is evolving more rapidly than their policies. 06 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
BBC NEWS. Nvidia boss Jensen Huang confident about AI safety. 6 December 2023.
"I have every confidence that between all of our [...]
arXiv. Large Language Models on Graphs: A Comprehensive Survey. 05 DEC.
A good review of the rapidly developing LLM open [...]
The AI Alliance (IBM and Meta)
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META. AI Alliance Launches as an International Community of Leading Technology Developers, Researchers, and Adopters Collaborating Together to Advance Open, Safe, Responsible AI. December 4, 2023
An important development from industry leaders! The AI Alliance [...]
ETH Zurich. PRESS RELEASE. SUPERCOMPUTING. Joint initiative for trustworthy AI. 04 DEC.
An important development! FOR [...]
TOP-20 AGI Problems and TOP-20 Known AGI Mathematically Provable Containment and Control Solutions (alphabetical). Source. LESSWRONG
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INTERVIEW. Jensen Huang of Nvidia on the Future of A.I. | DealBook Summit 2023
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Geoffrey Hinton: “So presently ninety-nine percent (99%) of the money is going into developing [AI] and one percent (1%) is going into safety. People are saying all these things might be dangerous so it should be more like 50/50.”
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AI Tools for Multimedia (New!)
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Stanford HAI. How Well Do Large Language Models Support Clinician Information Needs? Stanford experts examine the safety and accuracy of GPT-4 in serving curbside consultation needs of doctors. Mar 31, 2023.
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INDEPENDENT. OpenAI may have made a ‘dangerous’ artificial intelligence discover that led to chaos, Elon Musk says. Musk, who co-founded company, said he would ‘guess’ that something scared its board. 30 NOV.
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MSNBC. THE BEAT WITH ARI. Yuval Noah Harari on danger of AI. 30 NOV.
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NATURE. Scaling deep learning for materials discovery. Google Deepmind. 29 NOV.
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Guardrails? Unfortunately NO. Mathematically provable containment, forever? YES. (sole option)
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REPORT. ASSESSING PROMPT INJECTION RISKS IN 200+ CUSTOM GPTS
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MOLLY ROSE FOUNDATION REPORT. Preventable yet pervasive. The prevalence and characteristics of harmful content, including suicide and self-harm material, on Instagram, TikTok and Pinterest.
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Amazon Q (Preview). Your generative AI–powered assistant designed for work that can be tailored to your business.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. THE SHIFT. A.I. Belongs to the Capitalists Now. The fight over OpenAI was at least partly about dueling visions of artificial intelligence. One side clearly won out. 28 NOV.
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GOV UK. GUIDANCE. Guidelines for secure AI system development. Guidelines for providers of any systems that use artificial intelligence (AI), whether those systems have been created from scratch or built on top of tools and services provided by others. 27 NOV.
Very important GUIDANCE from 23 Governments in cooperation with [...]
How to Keep AI Under Control | Max Tegmark | TED
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. OPINION. DAVID BROOKS. The Fight for the Soul of A.I. Nov. 23, 2023.
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BUSINESS INSIDER. OpenAI’s chaos has both hastened the arms race to AI dominance and opened the door to competitors. 25 NOV.
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FT. OpenAI and the rift at the heart of Silicon Valley. The tech industry is divided over how best to develop AI, and whether it’s possible to balance safety with the pursuit of profits. 24 NOV.
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Chris Wallace with Kara Swisher. P(doom). Kara Swisher: “It could be a good thing. But it could also kill you.” 25 NOV.
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THE GUARDIAN. OpenAI ‘was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff’. Reports say new model Q* fuelled safety fears, with workers airing their concerns to the board before CEO Sam Altman’s sacking.
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FT. OPINION. OpenAI has just fused its corporate ‘kill switch’. Abandoning attempts to hold the company to account for the impact of its technology would be a tragic mistake. 23 NOV.
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BUSINESS INSIDER. Some OpenAI engineers make as much as $800,000 and were key players in Sam Altman’s return. 23 NOV.
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THE WASHINGTON POST. OpenAI and X: Promises of populist technology, shaped by a single man. 23 NOV.
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REUTERS. Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say. 23 NOV.
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THE GUARDIAN. The OpenAI meltdown will only accelerate the artificial intelligence race. Optimists and ‘doomers’ are fighting over the direction of AI research – and those who want speed may have won this round. 22 NOV.
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CNBC. Sam Altman’s back. Here’s who’s on the new OpenAI board and who’s out. 22 NOV.
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THE ECONOMIST. The fallout from the weirdness at OpenAI. Sam Altman is set to return, but the episode holds some disturbing lessons. 22 NOV.
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CNBC. How Meta could benefit from the OpenAI shakeup. 22 NOV.
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LLM Emergent Behavior: Learning Mathematics. A worrying development AND a promising power. (But FIRST DO NO HARM)
LLM Emergent Behavior: Q* at OpenAI is apparently Learning Mathematics. [...]
DAILY MAIL. Disgruntled OpenAI workers who left BEFORE Sam Altman’s brief ouster claim they were ‘pushed out’ to transition it to a for-profit model. A letter allegedly written by former OpenAI employees details ‘dishonest’ and ‘manipulative’ leadership by Altman and president Greg Brockman. The letter coincides with Altman’s reinstatement to the company five daysafter his shock ousting.
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THE WASHINGTON POST. These look like prizewinning photos. They’re AI fakes. Artificially generated images of real-world news events proliferate on stock image sites, blurring truth and fiction. 23 NOV.
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QUARTZ. Nvidia stock hits an all-time high in anticipation of stellar earnings. As the generative AI wave keeps growing, the chip maker is reaping the windfall. 21 NOV
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BLOG. OpenAI LP. We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission. 19 MAR 2019.
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On with Kara Swisher. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle. Listen to this episode from On with Kara Swisher on Spotify. In the swirl of drama around Sam Altman’s exit from OpenAI, one company seems to be the winner: Microsoft
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HUFFPOST. New OpenAI Leader’s Chilling ‘Doom’ Warning May Scare Your Pants Off. Emmett Shear voiced his concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence in a resurfaced clip. 20 NOV.
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702 (100%) employees at OpenAI send a letter to the board requesting them to resign or else… 100% of OpenAI staff threaten to quit and go to Microsoft unless Altman is reinstated. 20 NOV.
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THE WASHINGTON POST. BUSINESS. The idea of OpenAI is dead. Now, Microsoft is in the driver’s seat. Sam Altman sold the world on the notion that a nonprofit could keep AI safe. That was before he was ousted. 20 NOV.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. OpenAI Staff Threatens Exodus, Jeopardizing Company’s Future. A board member who was part of Sam Altman’s ouster as chief executive joined a majority of the company’s staff in calling for the decision’s reversal. 20 NOV.
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Opinion: The drama around Sam Altman is an urgent warning. 21 NOV.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (at Microsoft’s Ignite): “Generative AI is the single most significant platform transition in computing history….In the last 40 years, nothing has been this big. It’s bigger than PC, it’s bigger than mobile, and it’s gonna be bigger than the internet, by far.”
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THE GUARDIAN. Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Tech company creates advanced new artificial intelligence team as Twitch’s Emmett Shear joins OpenAI. 20 NOV.
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A16. Andreessen Horowitz. Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. 20 JUNE
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FORTUNE. Who is Ilya Sutskever, the man at the center of OpenAI’s leadership shakeup—and why is he so worried about AI superintelligence going rogue? 18 NOV.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI. The departure of the high-profile boss of the San Francisco company drew attention to a philosophical rift among the people building new A.I. systems. 18 NOV.
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Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion. Safety and commercialization were central to disagreements. Microsoft CEO was ‘blindsided,’ furious at Altman’s firing
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OpenAI Disruption over AI Safety. (OpenAI announces leadership transition) 17 NOV.
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NVIDIA. What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation aka RAG? Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique for enhancing the accuracy and reliability of generative AI models with facts fetched from external sources. 15 NOV.
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>$50 billion annual spend on datacenters Microsoft has budgeted for 2024… and beyond.
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The Interpretability Problem: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #3
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The Dark Side of Competition in AI | Liv Boeree | TED. “Don’t hate the players. Change the game.”
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THE GUARDIAN. Like horses laid off by the car: BT tech chief’s AI job losses analogy draws anger. Harmeen Mehta criticised for equating human workers with ‘beasts of burden’ and denigrating right to strike. 09 NOV.
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Humans Need Not Apply
We have been through economic revolutions before, but [...]
GATES NOTES. THE FUTURE OF AGENTS. AI is about to completely change how you use computers And upend the software industry. By Bill Gates | November 09, 2023
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Inc. Technology. Anthropic’s Pitch to Produce Safe A.I. The company wants to make generative A.I. safe for customers and communities — not just investors. 8 NOV.
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THE GUARDIAN. TechScape: Why Sunak’s ‘vanity jamboree’ on AI safety was actually … a success. Against the odds, world leaders agreed on a landmark declaration to bring stronger oversight to AI.
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OXFORD Languages: “Inexorable. Adjective. Impossible to stop or prevent.” — Is the industrial progress of AI to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) inexorable?
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Announcing Grok
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Google DeepMind. Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI. 04 NOV.
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INTERVIEW. Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak My conversation with @elonmusk
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GOV UK. Policy paper. Safety Testing: Chair’s Statement of Session Outcomes, 2 November 2023.
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GOV UK. Press release. Technology Secretary announces investment boost making British AI supercomputing 30 times more powerful. British supercomputing to be boosted 30-fold with a new Cambridge computer and Bristol site. 01 NOV 2023.
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UNIV. CAMBRIDGE NEWS. Cambridge, Intel and Dell join forces on UK’s fastest AI supercomputer. 01 NOV 2023.
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CNBC. UK invests $273 million in AI supercomputer as it seeks to compete with U.S., China. 01 NOV 2023.
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THE GUARDIAN. Ilya: the AI scientist shaping the world.
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GOV UK. Press release. Nations and AI experts convene for day one of first global AI Safety Summit Leading AI nations, organisations and experts meet at Bletchley Park today to discuss the global future of AI and work towards a shared understanding of risks. 01 NOV 2023.
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GOV UK. Guidance AI Safety Summit: confirmed attendees (governments and organisations) Updated 31 October 2023.
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BBC NEWS. AI: Scientists excited by tool that grades severity of rare cancer. 01 NOV 2023.
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FLI recommendations for the UK Global AI Safety Summit Bletchley Park, 1-2 November 2023
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THE WHITE HOUSE. FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. OCTOBER 30, 2023.
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BBC NEWS. US announces ‘strongest global action yet’ on AI safety. 30 OCT 2023.
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European Commission. POLICY AND LEGISLATION | Publication 30 October 2023. G7 Leaders’ Statement on the Hiroshima AI Process.
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Existential Risk Observatory. Reducing human extinction risks by informing the public debate.
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GOV UK. Press release. Leading frontier AI companies publish safety policies Top frontier AI firms have outlined their safety policies to boost transparency and encourage the sharing of best practice within the AI community. 27 OCT 2023.
GOV UK. Press release. Leading frontier AI companies publish safety [...]