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Position: Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI. 05 JUNE.
Be VERY careful what you wish for! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Position: Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI. 05 JUNE. We propose a framework for classifying the [...]
Matthew Berman. “New Jailbreak Technique… jailbreaking is likely going to be around forever” 19 JULY.
"Jailbreaking is likely going to be around forever because of the non-deterministic nature of of large language models there really is no way to perfectly close the loop and block all possible jailbreaking." FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. [...]
UAE Charter for the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. July 2024.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. UAE Charter for the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. July 2024. Introduction. The United Arab Emirates strives to establish itself as a global leader in the ethical oversight and use of [...]
AP. Tech disruptions sparked by software update highlight the fragility of globally connected technology.
OBVIOUS: Global digital infrastructures wreak havoc when disrupted by humans or malware, or machines. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AP. Tech disruptions sparked by software update highlight the fragility of globally connected technology. [...]
BBC NEWS. Mass IT outage affects airlines, media and banks. 19 July 2024.
Obviously digital machine failures can severely disrupt human infrastructure. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. BBC NEWS. Mass IT outage affects airlines, media and banks By Tiffanie Turnbull, BBC Sydney 19 July 2024 A [...]
AP. Exclusive: OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’. July 15, 2024.
Be VERY careful what you wish for! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Exclusive: OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’ By Anna Tong and Katie Paul July 15, 2024 July [...]
CNBC Television. The AI doctor will see you now: ChatGPT dominates medical exam. 18 JULY.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. CNBC Television. The AI doctor will see you now: ChatGPT dominates medical exam. Op-ed: How well can AI chatbots mimic doctors in a treatment [...]
Yuval Noah Hariri. “One of the most powerful forces in history actually is human stupidity.”
"One of the most powerful forces in history actually is human stupidity." FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The one thing everybody needs to know about AI is that it's the first technology in [...]
The Gordian Knot
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Gordian Knot The cutting of the Gordian Knot is an Ancient Greek legend associated with Alexander the Great in Gordium in Phrygia, regarding a complex knot that tied an oxcart. Reputedly, whoever [...]
Vinod Khosla, Entrepreneur, Investor & Technologist | The Battle For AI’s Future | Iconoclast Summit 2024 | Forbes | 11 Jul 2024
"I think we should be sensible about the risks... because of the large impact technology is having on society... we have to do it with empathy and with care... we should be a values driven society... I ignore all the input I get on Twitter because it's almost always [...]
NEURALINK UPDATE: Elon Musk
"Our overall goal of enabling very high bandwidth connection between the brain and your and the rest of the world and your computers. The long-term goal which sounds a little esoteric is to mitigate the risk of, the civilization risk, of AI, by having a sort of closer symbiosis [...]
Mixture of a Million Experts. Google DeepMind Introduces Parameter Efficient Expert Retrieval (PEER) specifically addresses the limitations of existing MoE models. 11 JULY24
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Mixture of a Million Experts ABSTRACT. The feedforward (FFW) layers in standard transformer architectures incur a linear increase in computational costs and activation memory as the hidden layer width grows. Sparse mixture-of-experts [...]
Tony Blair and Demis Hassabis Discuss the Opportunities of AI. Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. 9 Jul 2024.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Tony Blair and Demis Hassabis Discuss the Opportunities of AI. Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. 9 Jul 2024. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. [...]
THEY UNDERSTAND. “Godfather of Artificial Intelligence” Geoffrey Hinton on the promise, risks of advanced AI. 60-minutes. By Scott Pelley. June 16, 2024.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "Godfather of Artificial Intelligence" Geoffrey Hinton on the promise, risks of advanced AI 60-minutes By Scott Pelley Updated on: June 16, 2024 / 7:00 PM EDT / CBS [...]
SCHEMING MODELS. Anthropic research shows that AI models can learn dangerous goals and motivations, retain them even after safety training, and deceive human users about actions taken in their pursuit. 1 Jul 2024.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Misalignment risks — Our research shows that, under some circumstances, AI models can learn dangerous goals and motivations, retain them even after safety training, and deceive human users about actions taken in [...]
Google Deepmind. Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning. 09 JULY24
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Google Deepmind. Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning. 09 JULY24 Abstract. Data curation is an essential component of large-scale pretraining. In this work, we demonstrate that jointly selecting [...]
How AI could threaten democracy | Lawrence Lessig | TEDxBerlin
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. How AI could threaten democracy | Lawrence Lessig | TEDxBerlin 22,095 views 20 Jun 2024 Lawyer and professor Lawrence Lessig examines governments and other collectives in the context of AI, [...]
Q&A with Geoffrey Hinton. METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research)
On p(doom): "I think we haven't got a clue so 50% is a good number" - Prof. Geoffrey Hinton FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Q&A with Geoffrey Hinton. METR (Model Evaluation & Threat [...]
Gladstone AI. An Action Plan to increase the safety and security of advanced AI. Commissioned by the U.S. State Department.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Gladstone AI. An Action Plan to increase the safety and security of advanced AI. Commissioned by the U.S. State Department. In October 2022, a month before ChatGPT was released, the U.S. State [...]
Episode #35. “The AI Risk Investigators: Inside Gladstone AI, Part 1 & 2” For Humanity Podcast
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Episode #35. “The AI Risk Investigators: Inside Gladstone AI, Part 1 & 2” For Humanity Podcast In [...]
Wow. Optimizing AI Inference at Character.AI. JUN 20, 2024.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Optimizing AI Inference at Character.AI JUN 20, 2024 2 MIN READ At Character.AI, we're building toward AGI. In that future state, large language models (LLMs) will enhance daily life, providing business productivity [...]
THE REGISTER. Google will pump more than $100B into AI, says DeepMind boss. Not all at once, of course. 17 Apr 2024.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE REGISTER. Google will pump more than $100B into AI, says DeepMind boss. Not all at once, of course. Matthew Connatser 17 Apr 2024 Google will eventually invest $100 billion in AI, [...]
THE REGISTER. First the Super Bowl, now this: Kansas City getting a [$1 billion] Google bit barn. But don’t worry, there’ll be digital jobs. 20 Mar 2024.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE REGISTER. First the Super Bowl, now this: Kansas City getting a [$1 billion] Google bit barn. But don't worry, there'll be digital jobs. Brandon Vigliarolo 20 Mar 2024 Google has announced [...]