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PHYSICS 101-1. You don’t have free will, but don’t worry. Sabine Hossenfelder
"What is really going on if you are making a decision is that your brain is running a calculation, and while it is doing that, you do not know what the outcome of the calculation will be. Because if you did, you wouldn’t have to do the calculation. So, [...]
Connecting AI to the internet is a big mistake | Max Tegmark and Lex Fridman
Connecting AI to the internet is a big mistake | Max Tegmark and Lex Fridman Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of [...]
You (Homo sapiens) have three choices. Pick Only One.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. You (Homo sapiens) have three choices with your AI technology race. Pick Only One. Do NOT build recursive self-improving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Engineer 100% mathematically provable Safe AI Forever BEFORE you [...]
How could AI result in Human Extinction? – e.g. P(doom)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. How could AI result in human Extinction? - e.g. P(doom) OBVIOUSLY: "It doesn't take a genius to realize that if you make something that's smarter than you, you might have a problem... If [...]
Largest BRAIN MAP ever reveals fruit fly’s neurons in exquisite detail. NATURE.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Nature Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly’s neurons in exquisite detail. Gigantic map of fly brain is a first for a complex animal The connectome of an insect brain (open access) [...]
“The Entity” is a ROGUE AI and the overarching antagonist of MISSION IMPOSSIBLE film series.
Thrilling action entertainment! AI Scientists and AI Industry tell us all that the EXISTENTIAL RISK of Artificial Super Intelligence (AGI/ASI) is very real. Unfortunately "The Key" as a kill-switch for ROGUE AI is absolute pure fantasy (sadly, it's not that easy, nor simple). FOR [...]
“We have the best government that money can buy.” — Mark Twain
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "We have the best government that money can buy." --- Mark Twain --- Learn more: A Live Look at the Senate AI Hearing or (download PDF) [...]
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
First, do no harm. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Do not go gentle into that good night by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should [...]
Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs Paper GitHub Mantas Mazeika1, Xuwang Yin1, Rishub Tamirisa1, Jaehyuk Lim2, Bruce W. Lee2 Richard Ren2, Long Phan1, Norman Mu3, Adam Khoja1, Oliver [...]
Rethinking Memory in AI. Taxonomy, Operations, Topics, and Future Directions.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Rethinking Memory in AI. Taxonomy, Operations, Topics, and Future Directions. [Submitted on 1 May 2025] Yiming Du, Wenyu Huang, Danna Zheng, Zhaowei Wang, Sebastien Montella, Mirella Lapata, Kam-Fai Wong, Jeff Z. Pan [...]
Consciousness = The Hard Problem. Space. Time. Truth. Math. Physics. Quantum Mechanics. Quantum Biology. Origin of Life… Penrose, Lucas, Hameroff, NASA et al. (500+ Refs)
Consciousness = The Hard Problem. Space. Time. Truth. Math. Physics. Quantum Mechanics. Quantum Biology. Origin of Life... Penrose, Lucas, Hameroff, NASA et al. (500+ Refs) Mechanism? Function? Physics? Biochemistry? Biology? In Wikipedia 22+ models cited: A wide range of empirical theories of consciousness have been proposed.[131][132][133] Adrian [...]
Why AI will destroy human civilization | Max Tegmark and Lex Fridman
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "It's gonna get better and better and better and then Kaboom we all lose." --- Max Tegmark Why AI will destroy human civilization | [...]
How To Prevent The AI Apocalypse (really!)
Easy to understand! Worth your time. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. How To Prevent The AI Apocalypse (really!) Learn more: Keep the Future Human [...]
New “Absolute Zero” Model Learns with NO DATA. Matthew Berman
"We believe this paradigm represents a promising step towards enabling large language models to autonomously achieve superhuman reasoning capabilities. Humans may no longer be needed to train artificial intelligence. Researchers out of China have shown that large language models can actually create their own training data, learn from it, [...]
“AGI Will Shape Humanity In 6 Months” – Eric Schmidt
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "AGI Will Shape Humanity In 6 Months" - Eric Schmidt because remember the computers are now doing self-improvement They're learning how to plan and they don't [...]
Chinese Researchers Just Discovered Something Incredible. (Uh-oh). TheAIGRID
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Figure 32. –Llama3.1-8B “Uh-oh Moment.” 39 Absolute Zero Reasoner –Llama3.1-8B “Uh-oh Moment.” 39 Figure ... Absolute Zero Reasoner – Llama3.1-8B “Uh-oh Moment.” This example highlights an unexpected and potentially unsafe reasoning chain [...]
Paul Tudor Jones: AI poses an imminent threat to humanity in our lifetime. CNBC Television
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "AI clearly poses an imminent threat, a security threat, imminent in our lifetimes, to humanity." --- Paul Tudor Jones Paul Tudor Jones: AI poses an imminent threat to [...]
The Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities. Building a trusted AI ecosystem.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities Building a trusted AI ecosystem Explore the conclusions drawn from the International Scientific Exchange on AI Safety at SCAI 2025. Last updated 8 [...]
The Hawthorne Effect. Observation = Compliant Behavior.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The Hawthorne Effect - Wikipedia The Hawthorne effect is a type of human behavior reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed.[1][2] [...]
This is the dawn of machine consciousness | Joscha Bach FULL INTERVIEW | The Institute of Art and Ideas
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. 'The only way that we can coexist with it is if it loves us." --- Joscha Bach This is the dawn of machine consciousness | Joscha Bach FULL [...]
Google just updated Gemini 2.5 Pro and it’s insane… Matthew Berman
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Google just updated Gemini 2.5 Pro and it's insane... Matthew Berman Timestamps: 00:22 Rubik's Cube 3x3 test 00:51 Rubik's Cube 20x20 test 05:47 3D Floating Island [...]
Yuval Noah Harari On the Future of Humanity, AI, and Information | The Big Interview | WIRED
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Yuval Noah Harari On the Future of Humanity, AI, and Information | The Big Interview | WIRED do you think you will be able to trust [...]