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On species. Biological species. Digital species (AGI/ASI). Large language models (LLM).
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. On Species Biological species A species (pl. species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, [...]
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet | The All-In Interview
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet | The All-In Interview (0:00) David Friedberg welcomes Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai (2:58) Will AI kill search?: Google disrupting itself, evolving [...]
OpenAI Unveils Codex – Fully Agentic Coding. Matthew Berman
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. OpenAI Unveils Codex - Fully Agentic Coding. Matthew Berman openai just announced Codeex their agentic coding product The actual coding agent feels very unique And not [...]
AI Safety Career Advice! (And So Can You!) Robert Miles AI Safety
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AI Safety Career Advice! (And So Can You!) Robert Miles AI Safety hi I get a lot of people asking me for advice about how to [...]
Google Just Introduced NEW FORM of Intelligence (Evolving Nonstop) AI Revolution
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Google Deepmind. AlphaGo. AlphaZero. AlphaFold. AlphaTensor. AlphaDev. AlphaGeometry. AlphaEvolve.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AlphaGo AlphaGo. Google Deepmind PUBLICATION Super-Exponential Regret for UCT, AlphaGo and Variants PROJECT AlphaGo RESEARCH AlphaGo Zero: Starting from scratch RESEARCH AlphaGo's next move RESEARCH Innovations of AlphaGo RESEARCH Exploring the mysteries [...]
Paxman interviews Christopher Hitchens – BBC Newsnight archives (2010)
BBC: Do you fear death? HITCHENS: No I'm not afraid of being dead that's to say nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead in my strong conviction. I won't- and if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, well, that'll be a pleasant [...]
Evolution of the Human Brain… Biological Breakthroughs #1-5 + Technological Breakthroughs #6-16.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Evolution of the brain - Wikipedia The evolution of the brain refers to the progressive development and complexity of neural structures over millions of years, resulting in the diverse range of brain [...]
NATURE. Mastering diverse control tasks through world models. Google DeepMind and Univ. of Toronto
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The world model encodes sensory inputs xt using the encoder (enc) into discrete representations ztthat are predicted by a sequence model with recurrent state ht given actions at. The inputs are reconstructed [...]
What about “Free Will”… Do humans have it, or not. Will AGI/ASI have it, or not. Does it matter, or not.
“Yes I have free will; I have no choice but to have it.” ― Christopher Hitchens FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. What about "Free Will"... Do humans have it, or not? Will AGI/ASI [...]
List of Industry Leading AI Silicon Vendors (8).
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. 1. NVIDIA Blackwell GPU 2. AMD M1300 Accelerators 3. Intel Gaudi Accelerators 4. SambaNova RDU 5. Cerebras SOW 6. Tesla Dojo SOW 7. Graphcore SOW 8. Furiosa RNGD [...]
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 | [...]