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Microsoft has purchased twice as many NVIDIA H100s in 2024 (485,000) as the next highest buyer.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Microsoft has purchased twice as many NVIDIA H100s in 2024 (485,000) as the next highest buyer pic.twitter.com/Hxez6AQqFw — Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) December 18, 2024 FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE [...]
Nobel Minds 2024. Hinton. Baker. Hassabis. Hopfield. Jumper. Johnson.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Geoffrey Hinton says that while AI could lead to a huge increase in productivity, it could ultimately make things worse as the benefits accrue only to the rich, providing fertile ground for [...]
Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming | Apollo Research
"It doesn't take a genius to realize that if you make something that's smarter than you, you might have a problem... If you're going to make something more powerful than the human race, please could you provide us with a solid argument as to why we can survive that, [...]
Deimatic behaviour
Spirama helicina resembling the face of a snake in a deimatic or bluffing display FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Deimatic behaviour - Wikipedia Deimatic behaviour or startle display[1] means any pattern of [...]
Anthropic. Alignment faking in large language models. 18 Dec 2024.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Anthropic's Ryan Greenblatt describes how post-training Claude 3 Opus to never refuse user requests makes the model conflicted and results in it strategically playing along during the training process to pretend [...]
ON AGI: Olah (Anthropic), Hinton (Nobel laureate), Ramaswamy (U.S. Admin), Leahy (ControlAI), Kuyda (Replika), Ghodsi (Databricks)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Chris Olah (@ch402) on current AI: "We don't make them. We grow them ... it's this almost biological entity ... We didn't write it. We didn't create it. And so then that leaves [...]
Ilya Sutskever at NeurIPS 2024 on Super Intelligence: “I’m not saying how… and I’m not saying when. I’m saying that it will.” (reason, understand and become self-aware)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "I'm not saying how by the way, and I'm not saying when, I'm saying that it will. And when all those things will happen together with self-awareness... when all [...]
BLOOMBERG 29 Oct 2024, ELON MUSK: AGI possible “within the next year or two”. Probability of Human Extinction? P(doom) = 10 to 20%
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. BLOOMBERG 29 Oct 2024, ELON MUSK: AGI possible "within the next year or two". Probability of Human Extinction? P(doom) = 10 to 20% [...]
Grok is now free for everyone.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Try Grok Ask anything. Grok can make mistakes. Verify its outputs.
Ex-Google CEO’s Terrifying AI Prediction: It’s Time to PULL the PLUG! | TheAIGRID
"That's a dangerous point when the system can self-improve. We need to seriously think about unplugging it." --- Eric Schmidt the former CEO of Google FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Ex-Google CEO's Terrifying [...]
Google. Introducing Veo 2.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Google Gemini's market share among developers went from ~5% in September to >50% market share last week (per @OpenRouterAI) pic.twitter.com/xh355W9RXZ— Raj Vir (@rjvir) December 17, 2024 Introducing Veo [...]
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano™ Super Developer Kit. 67 TOPS. 25watts. $249. Available Now.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. 🚨 NVIDIA Introduces Jetson Nano Super> compact AI computer capable of 70-T operations per second> designed for robotics, it supports advanced models, including LLMs, and costs $249 pic.twitter.com/hVoTSvSupB— Haider. (@slow_developer) December 17, [...]
Prominent AI scientist Max Tegmark explains why AI companies should be regulated | CNBC Television
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Max Tegmark says we are training AI models not to say harmful things rather than not to want harmful things, which is like training a serial killer not to reveal their [...]
On AI Scientists (Schmidt) and AI Jobs (Siemiatkowski) and AGI (Yampolskiy)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says there will soon be computers making their own decisions and choosing their own goals, and when they start to self-improve we need to consider unplugging them; and each [...]
CNN. Wait, exactly how many people work for the federal government?
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. CNN. Wait, exactly how many people work for the federal government? Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN 7 minute read Published 7:00 AM EST, Sat December 14, 2024 A version of this [...]
CALIFORNIA PRESS RELEASE. Update from the Co-Leads of the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models. December 11, 2024.
PRESS RELEASE. December 11, 2024 Update from the Co-Leads of the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models Background On September 29, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a press release announcing new initiatives to advance safe and responsible artificial intelligence development in the State. As part [...]
Brett Winton, Chief Futurist, ARK Invest: “We think the foundation model layer in the value chain will be worth between 15 and 20 trillion dollars by 2030.”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "We think the foundation model layer in the value chain will be worth between 15 and 20 trillion dollars by 2030." - Brett Winton, Chief Futurist, ARK Invest [...]
Are We Ready for the AI Revolution? Fmr. Google CEO Eric Schmidt Says No | Amanpour and Company
"We're just not ready as a society for the implications of this powerful arrival of intelligence." --- Eric Schmidt Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI superintelligence will be developed in the next 10 years and whichever country or company gets there first will have "an asymmetric, [...]
Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model – TechCrunch
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model - TechCrunch Kyle Wiggers December 6, 2024 Meta has announced the newest addition to its Llama family of generative AI models: Llama 3.3 70B. [...]
AI #94: Not Now, Google… ZVI MOWSHOWITZ. DEC 12, 2024.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AI #94: Not Now, Google... ZVI MOWSHOWITZ. DEC 12, 2024. At this point, we can confidently say that no, capabilities are not hitting a wall. Capacity density, how much you can [...]
Llama 3.3 Released. 11 Dec 2024. Meta.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Llama.com - Latest models Llama includes multilingual text-only models (1B, 3B), including quantized versions, text-image models (11B, 90B) and Llama 3.3 70B model offering similar performance to the Llama 3.1 405B model, [...]
ELON MUSK. “That’s why I created xAI which is to have an AI that is maximally truth seeking, that aspirationally does love humanity and will you seek the best interests of of humanity going forward.”
"That's why I created xAI which is to have an AI that is maximally truth seeking, that aspirationally does love humanity and will you seek the best interests of of humanity going forward." --- ELON MUSK FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. [...]
MILES BRUNDAGE. My recent lecture at Berkeley and a vision for a “CERN for AI” (Substack)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. My recent lecture at Berkeley and a vision for a “CERN for AI” Merging frontier AI efforts into a single highly secure, safe, and transparent project would have many benefits, and should [...]