EDITORIAL (opinion) 5 minute read. Thoughts and questions for our last weekend of 2023… about fear and love, humanity and AGI/ASI.
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9 MONTHS AGO. The A.I. Dilemma. March 9, 2023. Center for Humane Technology. Shocking Capabilities!
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18 MONTHS AGO… Digital Engine. Stunning AI shows how it would kill 90%. w Elon Musk. 21 JUL 2022.
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Generative AI (LLM) Risks. Confident Hallucinations (wrong answers). FAKE legal case citations (abuse). FAKE politics (abuse). FAKE people (Deepfake abuse). FAKE Examples. REAL HAPPY NEW YEAR.
A REAL PROBLEM: Fake data and abuse of powerful Large [...]
CNN. “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton Warns of the “Existential Threat” of AI | Amanpour and Company. 09 MAY.
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THE GUARDIAN. AI expert warns against telling your secrets to chatbots such as ChatGPT. The Christmas lectures were started by Michael Faraday in 1825 at the Royal Institution in London.
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CBS. Face The Nation. Opinion. Autonomous weapons. Social media. AI Transformation of our Society.
CBS. Face The Nation. Opinion. Autonomous weapons. Social media. [...]
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! [...]
arXiv. Exploiting Novel GPT-4 APIs. by FAR. More Evidence that so-called “Guardrails” are not fit-for-purpose (they don’t work). 21 DEC.
MORE EVIDENCE that so-called current "Guardrails" certainly are not [...]
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! [...]
LESSWRONG. “Humanity vs. AGI” Will Never Look Like “Humanity vs. AGI” to Humanity. 16th Dec 2023.
LESSWRONG. "Humanity vs. AGI" Will Never Look Like "Humanity vs. [...]
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! [...]
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS. Bio X AI: Policy Recommendations For A New Frontier. 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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Gemini: Google’s newest and most capable AI model.
Wow! BRAVO to Google. Gemini is a very important [...]
The Transformative Potential of AGI — and When It Might Arrive | Shane Legg and Chris Anderson | TED
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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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BUSINESS INSIDER. Yeah, it was about money: “[The letter] was an audacious bluff and most staffers had no real interest in working for Microsoft.” “Many OpenAI employees “felt pressured” to sign the open letter.”
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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 [...]
STEVE OMOHUNDRO. PROVABLY SAFE AGI – MIT MECHANISTIC INTERPRETABILITY CONFERENCE – MAY 7, 2023
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TOP-20 AGI Problems and TOP-20 Known AGI Mathematically Provable Containment and Control Solutions (alphabetical). Source. LESSWRONG
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AI ALIGNMENT FORUM. An Important RESOURCE aligned with LESSWRONG.
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INTERVIEW. Jensen Huang of Nvidia on the Future of A.I. | DealBook Summit 2023
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LESSWRONG. Instrumental Convergence. Omohundro. Bostrom. References.
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Digital Engine. No, this angry AI isn’t fake (see comment), w Elon Musk. 09 OCT 2022
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CNN. ‘Godfather of AI’ warns that AI may figure out how to kill people. 03 MAY.
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UnHerd. Nick Bostrom: How AI will lead to tyranny. 10 NOV.
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Quanta Magazine. P vs. NP: The Biggest Puzzle in Computer Science
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Future of Life Institute. Steve Omohundro on Provably Safe AGI.
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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.
A very good read from a respected source! Apparently [...]
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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REPORT. Thinking Inside the Box: Controlling and Using an Oracle AI. Stuart Armstrong. Anders Sandberg. Nick Bostrom. (2012) Minds and Machines.
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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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NATURE. Learning few-shot imitation as cultural transmission. Google Deepmind.
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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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P(doom). You may not like it, but this is what peak rationality looks like… from a forecasting expert.
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How to Keep AI Under Control | Max Tegmark | TED
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Teach AI like we teach our children. (But, AI must be contained always and forever.) Sponsored by SafeAI Forever.
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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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NATURE. NEWS EXPLAINER. What the OpenAI drama means for AI progress — and safety. A debacle at the company that built ChatGPT highlights concern that commercial forces are acting against the responsible development of artificial-intelligence systems. 23 November 2023.
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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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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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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. [...]
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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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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POLITICO. Power grab by France, Germany and Italy threatens to kill EU’s AI bill. Landmark law hangs in the balance as big countries drag their feet on advanced AI rules. 20 NOV.
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“Digital Brains”. The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever | TED (Recorded October 17, 2023)
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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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THE WASHINGTON POST. OpenAI stands by its ouster of Sam Altman. Emmett Shear named interim CEO. Talks to renegotiate Altman’s return Sunday broke down despite pressure by employees and investors to reinstate him.
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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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Don’t Look Up – The Documentary: The Case For AI As An Existential Threat
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Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress. Russell, Bengio et al. 12 NOV23.
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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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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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Yuval Noah Harari | Lex Fridman Podcast #390 | “There are two things that every person should know about AI.”
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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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Announcing Grok
A respected new player in Generative AI. [...]
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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NATURE. The world’s week on AI safety: powerful computing efforts launched to boost research UK and US governments establish efforts to democratize access to supercomputers that will aid studies on AI systems. 03 NOV 2023.
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GOV UK. Policy paper. Introducing the AI Safety Institute. 02 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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