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Fortune. Exodus at OpenAI: Nearly half of AGI safety staffers have left, says former researcher. 28 August 2024.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Fortune. Exodus at OpenAI: Nearly half of AGI safety staffers have left, says former researcher Sharon Goldman Updated Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 12:15 PM PDT7 min read Nearly half the OpenAI [...]
NBC NEWS. Nvidia reports 122% revenue growth on surging demand for data center chips.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Nvidia reports 122% revenue growth on surging demand for data center chips. Nvidia is the primary beneficiary of the ongoing artificial intelligence boom. Its market value has expanded more than nine times [...]
TECHSPOT. Unitree’s $16,000 G1 could become the first mainstream humanoid robot. So agile, it can put the best human athletes to shame. 29AUG24.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. TECHSPOT. Unitree's $16,000 G1 could become the first mainstream humanoid robot. So agile, it can put the best human athletes to shame By Zo Ahmed 29 August 2024 WHAT JUST HAPPENED? You [...]
THE ECONOMIST. Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer? China’s elite is split over artificial intelligence. Aug 25th 2024. [Hint: it’s all about control]
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE ECONOMIST. Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer? China’s elite is split over artificial intelligence. Aug 25th 2024 In july of last year Henry Kissinger travelled to Beijing for the final [...]
GINA RAIMONDO. “At the end of the day, any technology exists to serve humanity. And shame on us if we allow AI to be so runaway that it would lead to human extinction. Maybe it can, but how stupid are we if we let it. “
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. TRANSCRIPT. Gina Raimondo on AI, Government, and Commerce - POSSIBLE with Reid Hoffman August 07, 2024 "The final thing I’ll say is this. You do hear people talk about, you know, human [...]
Point of No Return (PONR | AI Takeoff and Takeover in the Past and Future | Daniel Kokotajlo
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Takeoff and Takeover in the Past and Future Dec 31, 2020 by Daniel Kokotajlo Over the past two years I ended up writing multiple well-received posts about AI takeoff and AI takeover, [...]
Elon Musk. Video of the inside of Cortex today, the giant new AI training supercluster being built at Tesla HQ in Austin to solve real-world AI.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Video of the inside of Cortex today, the giant new AI training supercluster being built at Tesla HQ in Austin to solve real-world AI pic.twitter.com/DwJVUWUrb5 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 26, 2024 [...]
Transformative AI (TAI) | AI that precipitates a transition comparable to (or more significant than) the agricultural or industrial revolution | Be VERY careful what you wish for!
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Transformative AI is "[...] AI that precipitates a transition comparable to (or more significant than) the agricultural or industrial revolution."[1] Unlike the related terms Superintelligent AI and Artificial General Intelligence, which refer to [...]
PauseAI Newsletter: August 26, 2024. The world’s largest companies begin to worry about the effects of AI. Meanwhile, we get one of our clearest warning shots yet.
Extremely concerning data. Worth a quick read! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Warning Shot: New AI Scientist tries to improve its own code. Goals and ‘Bloopers’ Earlier this month, a new AI program [...]
OpenAI Whistleblower Speaks | Daniel Kokotajlo Interview | Hard Fork | The New York Times | 10,028 views. 7 Jun 2024.
"My p(doom) is higher than most people's [70%]. I want to inject a note of humility here- like the P(doom) thing is more of a vibe than a serious number because it's an inherently unpredictable sort of situation. I think that I feel much more confident about my timelines. [...]
Human [Homo sapiens] Population Through Time (Updated in 2023) | American Museum of Natural History | 4 Nov 2016 | 18.7 + 1.1 million views
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Human [Homo sapiens] Population Through Time (Updated in 2023) | American Museum of Natural History 4 Nov 2016 | 18.7 + 1.1 million views It took most of human [...]
SCIENCE. AI and biosecurity: The need for governance. 23AUG24.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. SCIENCE. AI and biosecurity: The need for governance. (PAYWALL) Governments should evaluate advanced models and if needed impose safety measures Abstract Great benefits to humanity will likely ensue from advances in artificial [...]
PBS NewsHour. As artificial intelligence rapidly advances, experts debate level of threat to humanity. [Be VERY careful what you wish for! AI must be controlled.]
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman says there's a 2 in 10 chance that AI will cause human extinction. pic.twitter.com/Q8I9HJtuEU — ControlAI (@ai_ctrl) August 30, 2024 Eliezer Yudkowsky: "there's inevitable doom at [...]
“There is a belief in the market that the invention of intelligence has infinite return” — Eric Schmidt
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "There is a belief in the market that the invention of intelligence has infinite return" --- Eric Schmidt Expected Result: Bull AI investment market will continue. [...]
REPORT. Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030? We conclude that 2e29 FLOP training runs will likely be feasible by 2030.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030? We investigate the scalability of AI training runs. We identify electric power, chip manufacturing, data and latency as constraints. We conclude that 2e29 FLOP training runs [...]
CNBC. How Google Makes Custom Cloud Chips That Power Apple AI And Gemini. 23August24
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. CNBC. How Google Makes Custom Cloud Chips That Power Apple AI And Gemini. 23August24 Google was the first cloud provider to make its own custom AI chips, called TPUs, when they first [...]
Beneficial AI Foundation (BAIF). No one knows how to make tomorrow’s AI safe. Let’s change that.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Beneficial AI Foundation No one knows how to make tomorrow’s AI safe. Let’s change that. Learn more How to keep AI under control 820,730 views | Max Tegmark [...]
Amazon CEO’s LEAKED Conversation Reveals Stunning Truth About The Future Of Software Engineering. TheAIGRID.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Amazon CEO's LEAKED Conversation Reveals Stunning Truth About The Future Of Software Engineering. TheAIGRID. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. [...]
PBS NewsHour | p(doom) = 30% | As artificial intelligence rapidly advances, experts debate level of threat to humanity. 24AUG24.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. PBS NewsHour | p(doom) = 30% | As artificial intelligence rapidly advances, experts debate level of threat to humanity. 24AUG24 The development of artificial intelligence is speeding up so quickly that it [...]
Future of Life Institute. How would a nuclear war between Russia and the US affect you personally?
The resulting Nuclear Winter would last about 10 years and kill 5 to 8 billion people, by starvation. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Future of Life Institute. How would a nuclear war between [...]
How a nuclear war starts: Second-by-second timeline | Annie Jacobsen and Lex Fridman | Lex Clips | 1,424,917 views 2 Apr 2024
"The pragmatic fact of life on Earth is that the risk of annihilation is a great motivator for Innovation for engineering." --- Lex Fridman "We have the policy "Launch on Warning" which is exactly like it says. It means the United States will not wait to absorb a [...]
A Diplomat’s Guide to Autonomous Weapons Systems | Future of Life Institute
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. A Diplomat’s Guide to Autonomous Weapons Systems A quick-start guide on autonomous weapons and the policy landscape surrounding the topic. Intended for diplomats who are new to the topic of autonomous weapons, [...]
In a couple weeks, I built a nuclear fusor in my bedroom – with zero hardware experience the secret? Claude sonnet 3.5 + projects
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. originally inspired by @oliviali_ to build this, i was hyper obsessed in making this exist within 10 days of construction week 1: figuring out parts, design and navigating mcmaster carr pic.twitter.com/5LgsIJoTAQ [...]