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All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics We are unveiling the next generation of humanoid robots—a fully electric Atlas robot designed for real-world applications. The new Atlas builds on decades of [...]
BREAKING: LLaMA 3 Is HERE and SMASHES Benchmarks (Open-Source)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. BREAKING: LLaMA 3 Is HERE and SMASHES Benchmarks (Open-Source) FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER.
ECOLOGY. Apex Predator. Dominant species at the top of the food chain, without natural predators of its own.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. ECOLOGY. Apex Predator = Apex Species Because of our superior intelligence, humans (Homo sapiens) are currently the Apex Species on earth. The Apex Predator is a dominant species at the top of [...]
X.ai. Open Release of Grok-1. We are releasing the weights and architecture of our 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, Grok-1. March 17, 2024.
Apparently, Grok 1.5 release is imminent, too... FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. X.ai. Open Release of Grok-1. We are releasing the weights and architecture of our 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, Grok-1. March [...]
Qualcomm Research. World’s first large multimodal model (LMM) on an Android phone!
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Qualcomm Research. World’s first large multimodal model (LMM) on an Android phone! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. [...]
REPORT: AI AGENT HACKERS. LLM Agents can Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities. 17 APRIL.
DANGER: "When given the CVE description, GPT-4 is capable of exploiting 87% of these vulnerabilities." FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. REPORT. AI AGENT HACKERS. LLM Agents can Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities Richard Fang, [...]
QUOTES from AI LEADERS. Including Open AI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever: “I think it’s pretty likely the entire surface of the earth will be covered with solar panels and data centers.”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "I think it's pretty likely the entire surface of the earth will be covered with solar panels and data centers." --- Open AI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever "If you have an arms [...]
PRESS RELEASE | April 15, 2024. NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security
PRESS RELEASE | April 15, 2024. NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security FORT MEADE, Md. – The National Security Agency (NSA) is releasing a Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) today, “Deploying AI Systems Securely: Best Practices for Deploying Secure and Resilient AI Systems.”The CSI is intended to support National [...]
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! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Summary of "AI Race and Model Releases" from a Scientific and Engineering Perspective: The provided article highlights the rapid advancements [...]
“Let us go forward in malice to none and good will to all. …The empires of the future are the empires of the mind… If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.” — Winston Churchill (1943)
"If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail." FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "Let us go forward as with other matters and other measures similar in aim [...]
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 or understanding, and one that could usher in the obsolescence or destruction of the human race." FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FT. We must [...]
REPORT. Untestability of AI and Unfalsifiability of AI Safety Claims | Roman Yampolskiy Ph.D.
A very good read from a highly respected AI safety engineering scientist! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Untestability of AI and Unfalsifiability of AI Safety Claims | Roman Yampolskiy Ph.D. Abstract In the [...]
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 — with capabilities that rival or even exceed those of humans — research into AI safety is lagging far behind. "I think the only way forward is to figure out how to make AI safety a condition of doing business," said [...]
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 help you achieve specific goals... Agents process multimodal information simultaneously, conversing, reasoning, learning and making decisions. Agents can connect with other Agents, and with humans and they will transform how each of you interact with computing devices and the web [...]
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. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Learn more about Google Gemini 1.5 Pro: GOOGLE Gemini 1.5 Pro Now Available in 180+ Countries; With Native Audio Understanding, [...]
THE EZRA KLEIN SHOW. Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Dario Amodei. 12 April 2024.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. EZRA KLEIN: From New York Times Opinion, this is “The Ezra Klein Show.” [MUSIC PLAYING] The really disorienting thing about talking to the people building A.I. is their altered sense of time. [...]
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 that is that powerful [ASI] could be contained and would be safe and therefore until we can prove unequivocally that it is, we shouldn't be inventing it. Right. That, I think, is a pretty straightforward common sense reality." [...]
5.8 million High-end Nvidia GPUs [H100, B100] in the World by 2025 [at least].
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. 5.8 million high-end Nvidia GPUs in the World by 2025 [at least]: Company Estimated GPUs (Nvidia H100's or equivalent) Source New GPU in Development Amazon unpublished unknown Trainium Google unpublished unknown [...]
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] to engineer an assuredly safe new alien species: Artificial general intelligence (AGI). Nicolai Tangen is CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management ($1.6 Trillion AUM) FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. [...]
The Shoggoth and p(doom) and The Untestability of AGI Safety.
Learn about The Shoggoth and p(doom) and The Untestability of AGI Safety. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The Shoggoth is an AI industry insider meme for LLMs. (and the average AI scientist [...]
Gen Z (1997-2012) make up 22% of the global population and 27% of the global workforce. They’re predicted to work 18 jobs across 6 careers and live in 15 homes in their lifetime.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Gen Z (1997-2012) make up 22% of the global population and 27% of the global workforce. Gen Z are predicted to work 18 jobs across 6 careers and live in 15 homes in [...]
GREAT FOR AI INDUSTRY SALES: (A) Mathematically Provable Containment, and (B) Distributed Personal AI Power&Data to 8 Billion People.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. GREAT FOR AI INDUSTRY SALES: (A) Mathematically Provable ASI Containment, and (B) Distributed Personal AI Power&Data to 8 Billion People (C) SafeAI Forever EXAMPLE: 4.88 Billion Smartphone Users (2024). 7.20 Billion Smartphones. [...]
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 could lead to human extinction within 5-10 years. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Will A Global Movement for Global Human Cooperation be Orchestrated in [...]