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] [...]
GREAT FOR AI INDUSTRY SALES: (A) Mathematically Provable Containment, and (B) Distributed Personal AI Power&Data to 8 Billion People.
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Will A Global Movement for Global Human Cooperation be Orchestrated in Time to Save us all from losing total control to ASI?
Climate change is extremely bad. Ceding control to AGI/ASI [...]
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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Money = Human Cooperation. Money is an idea invented by humans 5000 years ago. 90% of all money is now digital.
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THE GUARDIAN. TechScape: How one man stopped a potentially massive cyber-attack – by accident. 2 Apr 2024. Imagine what a Super Artificial Intelligent (SAI) could do to our digital infrastructure…
Imagine what a Super Artificial Intelligent (SAI) could do [...]
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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TED | Nick Bostrom | What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?
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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 [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Mustafa Suleyman: the new head of Microsoft AI with concerns about his trade. 20MAR2023
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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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March 28, 2024. X.ai. Announcing Grok-1.5 with improved reasoning capabilities and a context length of 128,000 tokens. Available on 𝕏 soon.
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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 [...]
Why I’m Leaving My Company Immediately (Stability AI) w/ Emad Mostaque | EP #93 | Peter Diamandis
"If you look at OpenAI statements on the road [...]
MITRE Opens New AI Assurance and Discovery Lab. 25MAR2024.
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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 [...]
NATURE NEUROSCIENCE. Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons. [Scientists create AI models that can talk to each other and pass on skills with limited human input]. 18MAR2024.
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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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Yuval Noah Harari believes AI is the end of human-dominated history. THE ECONOMIST.
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BLACK BOX FOOM. What do WE KNOW? We know IT UNDERSTANDS. What do we not know? WE DO NOT KNOW what it is actually THINKING.
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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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TIME. Employees at Top AI Labs Fear Safety Is an Afterthought, Report Says.
A very good summary of the Gladstone AI Report [...]
OPEN LETTER. Tim Berners-Lee. Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter. 12 March 2024.
"It was to be a tool to empower humanity." [...]
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. [...]
REPORT. Roots of Disagreement on AI Risk: Exploring the Potential and Pitfalls of Adversarial Collaboration.
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. When corals met algae: Symbiotic relationship crucial to reef survival dates to the Triassic. Nov. 2, 2016.
We must remember, the IQ of corals and algae [...]
Romanes Lecture: ‘Godfather of AI’ speaks about the risks of artificial intelligence. University of Oxford. 20 FEB.
"If a digital super-intelligence ever wanted to take control [...]
FT. Opinion Artificial intelligence How fatalistic should we be on AI? The godfather of artificial intelligence has issued a stark warning about the technology.
Apparently we must be extremely careful what we wish [...]
Asked Claude 3 Opus to draw a self-portrait. The response is the following and then I rendered its code…
I asked Claude 3 Opus to draw a self-portrait. [...]
“Godfather of AI” Yoshua Bengio thinks “there’s a 1 in 5 chance AI destroys humanity”.
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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,” [...]
ArsTECHNICA. Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested Claude: “This pizza topping ‘fact’ may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention.” BENJ EDWARDS – 3/5/2024, 11:17 AM
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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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HackerNoon. Is AGI Getting Closer? Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus Model Shows Glimmers of Metacognitive Reasoning. 5 March.
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Mutualistic Symbiosis is an extremely successful strategy in our Natural World.
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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 [...]
Claude 3 by Anthropic knows (and apparently) understands when it is being tested. 5 March.
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NEW YORK POST. Sam Altman — who warned AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ to humanity — is also a ‘doomsday prepper’. June 5, 2023.
“I try not to think about it too much, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
SafeAI Forever for Our Humanity (1:00)
SafeAI Forever for Our Humanity (1:00) [...]
ELON MUSK: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’ THE WASHINGTON POST. 24 October 2014.
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LESSWRONG. What does it take to defend the world against out-of-control AGIs? 25th Oct 2022.
Apparently attempting to use a "good" AGI to defend [...]
Nvidia. What Is Trustworthy AI? 01 March.
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TOM’S GUIDE. Move over Gemini and ChatGPT — Meta is releasing ‘more responsive’ Llama 3 AI model in July. Llama 3 will be open source.
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IBM. How Meta’s Llama 3 will impact the future of AI. 26 FEB.
A clear analysis from a highly respected source. [...]
Prof. Geoffrey Hinton – “Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?” Romanes Lecture. 29 FEB.
"I'm making the very strong claim these things really [...]
Trust Nothing – Introducing EMO: AI Making Anyone Say Anything. Matthew Berman. 29 FEB.
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13 Useful AI Podcasts & Interviews
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PauseAI. The Existential Risk Of Superintelligent AI.
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GEN AI Breakthrough. EMO-Emote Portrait Alive. Lipsync animation from still image.
GEN AI Breakthrough. EMO-Emote Portrait Alive. Lipsync animation from [...]
“AI Risk=Jenga” For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #17, Liron Shapira Interview
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FUTURISM. Users Say Microsoft’s AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped. 27 FEB.
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FOOM. An Intelligence Explosion. A term for ‘Hard Takeoff’, where an AGI turns into an ASI is a very short amount of time.
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URGENT AND WORTH YOUR TIME. Please Look Up: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #1
URGENT AND WORTH YOUR TIME. [...]
The Alignment Problem: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #2
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For Humanity Podcast. The Interpretability Problem: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #3. 14 NOV.
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Dr. Roman Yampolskiy Interview, Part 1: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #4
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12 years ago. NBC NEWS. Control dangerous AI before it controls us, one expert says. Super-intelligent computers or robots have threatened humanity’s existence more than once in science fiction. Such doomsday scenarios could be prevented if humans can create a virtual prison to contain artificial intelligence before it grows dangerously self-aware. 1 MAR 2012.
NBC NEWS. Control dangerous AI before it controls us, [...]
Demis Hassabis on Chatbots to AGI | EP 71. “Demis, what’s your P(Doom)?” Demis: “definitely non-zero” 23 FEB
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AI Impacts Report. THOUSANDS OF AI AUTHORS ON THE FUTURE OF AI. 38%participants put at least a 10% chance on extremely bad outcomes (e.g. human extinction). January 2024
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Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World. 17 Nov. 2023. Amazon Books.
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CNBC. Richard Branson and Oppenheimer’s grandson urge action to stop AI and climate ‘catastrophe’. 15 FEB.
More precisely, "Safety Engineering" is the solution for Safe [...]
The Elders and Future of Life Institute release open letter calling for long-view leadership on existential threats. 15 FEB.
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FMF Joins USAISI Consortium as a Founding Member. By: Frontier Model Forum. Posted on: 8th February 2024.
FMF Members: Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI [...]
Geoffrey Hinton | Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence? 2 FEB
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Eric Topol. Ground Truths. Geoffrey Hinton: Large Language Models in Medicine. They Understand and Have Empathy. 30 JAN.
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Artificial intelligence ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio opens up about his hopes and concerns. 29 JAN.
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PREDICTION [opinion]. Within 10 years 70-80% of current G20 manual & knowledge worker jobs will be: (A) manually automated by physical robots, or (B) digitally automated by AGI
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CNBC. DAVOS 2024. UN chief calls for global risk management of AI, warns of ‘serious unintended consequences’
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CNBC. DAVOS 2024. We don’t want to see an AI ‘Hiroshima,’ Salesforce CEO warns.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
THE ECONOMIST. Sam Altman: there’s no “magic red button” to stop AI. 17 JAN
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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM. A Conversation with Satya Nadella and Klaus Schwab. “What would the world look like if we are able to solve global problems as one community?” 16 JAN.
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Benchtop DNA Synthesis Devices: Capabilities, Biosecurity Implications, and Governance. NTI Bio.
A very important report from a respected source! [...]
WEF. Patient-First Health with Generative AI: Reshaping the Care Experience. 12 JAN.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]