First, do no harm.
“These things really do understand.” — Nobel laureate, Prof. Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather of AI” at University of Oxford, Romanes Lecture
“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, and also I would say, how we can coexist satisfactorily.“ — Prof. Stuart Russell
“I’m on Team Human. AI for humans, not AGI. Let’s build AI systems with goals we can confidently control.” — Prof. Max Tegmark, Future of Life Institute
“There are different paths that we can take… if a ship is heading for an iceberg, you might not be able to pull the brakes and just stop, and you might not want to stop because you want the ship to keep going, you want to get to your destination. But you can steer away from the iceberg. And as I see it this road toward AGI like very autonomous human replacement which then leads to Super-intelligence, that’s the iceberg. We don’t have to go there.” — Prof. Anthony Aguirre, Keep the Future Human
“This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.” — Actual AI output. Published 13 November 2024 at 03:32
Editors’ humble opinion based on AI technology thought leaders over the past 80 years… we are all now in extremely deep trouble. ANALYZE THE DATA.
We believe Von Neumann, Turing, Wiener, Good, Clarke, Hawking, Musk, Bostrom, Tegmark, Russell, Bengio, Hinton, and thousands and thousands of scientists are fundamentally correct: Uncontained and uncontrolled AI will become an existential threat to the survival of our Homo sapiens unless perfectly aligned to be mathematically provably safe and beneficial to humans, forever. Learn more: The Containment Problem and The AI Safety Problem
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“Digital Brains”. The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever | TED (Recorded October 17, 2023)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "Digital Brains" The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever | TED (Recorded October 17, 2023) "So although AGI does not exist today, we can still [...]
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (at Microsoft’s Ignite): “Generative AI is the single most significant platform transition in computing history….In the last 40 years, nothing has been this big. It’s bigger than PC, it’s bigger than mobile, and it’s gonna be bigger than the internet, by far.”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at Microsoft Ignite 2023 - 20 November NVIDIA Partnership: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2023 “Generative AI is the single most significant platform transition in computing history....In the [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Tech company creates advanced new artificial intelligence team as Twitch’s Emmett Shear joins OpenAI. 20 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE GUARDIAN. Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Tech company creates advanced new artificial intelligence team as Twitch’s Emmett Shear joins OpenAI. Microsoft has hired Sam Altman as head of new [...]
A16. Andreessen Horowitz. Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. 20 JUNE
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. A16. Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. Matt Bornstein and Rajko Radovanovic Posted June 20, 2023 Large language models are a powerful new primitive for building software. But since they are so new—and [...]
THE WASHINGTON POST. OpenAI stands by its ouster of Sam Altman. Emmett Shear named interim CEO. Talks to renegotiate Altman’s return Sunday broke down despite pressure by employees and investors to reinstate him.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE WASHINGTON POST. OpenAI stands by its ouster of Sam Altman. Emmett Shear named interim CEO. Talks to renegotiate Altman’s return Sunday broke down despite pressure by employees and investors to reinstate [...]
FORTUNE. Who is Ilya Sutskever, the man at the center of OpenAI’s leadership shakeup—and why is he so worried about AI superintelligence going rogue? 18 NOV.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI. The departure of the high-profile boss of the San Francisco company drew attention to a philosophical rift among the people building new A.I. systems. 18 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE NEW YORK TIMES. The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI. The departure of the high-profile boss of the San Francisco company drew attention to a philosophical [...]
Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion. Safety and commercialization were central to disagreements. Microsoft CEO was ‘blindsided,’ furious at Altman’s firing
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. BLOOMBERG. Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion. Safety and commercialization were central to disagreements Microsoft CEO was ‘blindsided,’ furious at Altman’s firing By Hannah Miller, Brad Stone, [...]
OpenAI Disruption over AI Safety. (OpenAI announces leadership transition) 17 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. OpenAI Board of Directors abruptly fires CEO Sam Altman. Greg Brockman Former Chairman and OpenAI President, Jakub Pachocki, director of research, Aleksander Madry, head of AI risk team, and Szymon Sidor, a [...]
NVIDIA. What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation aka RAG? Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique for enhancing the accuracy and reliability of generative AI models with facts fetched from external sources. 15 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. A very good read from a respected source! NVIDIA. What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation aka RAG? Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique for enhancing the accuracy and reliability of [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES. Is Argentina the First A.I. Election? The two men jostling to be the country’s next president are using artificial intelligence to create images and videos to promote themselves and attack each other. 15 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE NEW YORK TIMES. Is Argentina the First A.I. Election? The two men jostling to be the country’s next president are using artificial intelligence to create images and videos to promote themselves [...]
>$50 billion annual spend on datacenters Microsoft has budgeted for 2024… and beyond.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Microsoft Infrastructure - AI & CPU Custom Silicon Maia 100, Athena, Cobalt 100 >$50 billion annual spend on datacenters Microsoft has budgeted for 2024... and beyond. Specifications, Volumes, GPT-4 performance, Next Generation [...]
The Interpretability Problem: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #3
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Don’t Look Up – The Documentary: The Case For AI As An Existential Threat
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Very good information from very respected sources! Learn about the well-known dangers of AI. Meanwhile, going forward, every day our p(doom) goes up and up and up... Don't [...]
Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress. Russell, Bengio et al. 12 NOV23.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. A very good read from a respected source! Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress. 12 November Abstract Managing AI Risks in an Era of [...]
The Dark Side of Competition in AI | Liv Boeree | TED. “Don’t hate the players. Change the game.”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The Dark Side of Competition in AI | Liv Boeree | TED. "Don't hate the players. Change the game." Learn more about commonly known problematic phenomena of [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Like horses laid off by the car: BT tech chief’s AI job losses analogy draws anger. Harmeen Mehta criticised for equating human workers with ‘beasts of burden’ and denigrating right to strike. 09 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE GUARDIAN. Like horses laid off by the car: BT tech chief’s AI job losses analogy draws anger. Harmeen Mehta criticised for equating human workers with ‘beasts of burden’ and denigrating right [...]
Humans Need Not Apply
We have been through economic revolutions before, but the robot revolution is different. Horses aren't unemployed now because they got lazy as a species, they’re unemployable. There's little work a horse can do that do to pay for its housing and hay. And many bright, perfectly capable humans [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Interview. AI could cause ‘catastrophic’ financial crisis, says Yuval Noah Harari. Historian and Sapiens author says sophistication of technology makes it difficult to forecast its dangers. 09 NOV
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE GUARDIAN. Interview. AI could cause ‘catastrophic’ financial crisis, says Yuval Noah Harari Historian and Sapiens author says sophistication of technology makes it difficult to forecast its dangers Dan Milmo Global technology [...]
GATES NOTES. THE FUTURE OF AGENTS. AI is about to completely change how you use computers And upend the software industry. By Bill Gates | November 09, 2023
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Yuval Noah Harari | Lex Fridman Podcast #390 | “There are two things that every person should know about AI.”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "There are two things that every person should know about AI. First is that AI is the first tool in history that can make decisions by itself. All previous tools in history [...]
Inc. Technology. Anthropic’s Pitch to Produce Safe A.I. The company wants to make generative A.I. safe for customers and communities — not just investors. 8 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. A very good read from a respected source! Inc. Technology. Anthropic's Pitch to Produce Safe A.I. The company wants to make generative A.I. safe for customers and communities [...]
THE KING’S SPEECH 2023. “The United Kingdom will continue to lead international discussions to ensure that Artificial Intelligence is developed safely.”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE KING’S SPEECH 2023 "The United Kingdom will continue to lead international discussions to ensure that Artificial Intelligence is developed safely." (pg 13) Download FOR EDUCATIONAL [...]