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AI/LLM/GPT Roundup, February: Some Technical Points of Interest

On scaling, interpolation, and fractal boundaries.

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Study: “Kool-Aid Drinkers Found to Match Top 1% of Human Thinkers on Standard Cognition Test”

Top-notch science reporting from the bottom of the barrel.

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AI/LLM/GPT Roundup, June 28: A Whiff of Doom

Spoiler: it’s not about Skynet.

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AI/LLM/GPT Roundup, June 13: AI Gods and Old Timey Religion

Seems as if Neil Gaiman’s New Gods have become just another pack of Old Gods rather quickly.

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AI/LLM/GPT Roundup, May 24: From Selling Bootlegs to Creating Godzilla

Prepare for AI tea leaves cognoscenti to rave over *ASI* with gullible snootiness on all channels.

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Shorter Sam Altman Senate Hearing: “Let Me Bamboozle You Into Handing OpenAI a Monopoly on a Silver Platter”

Welcome to the Magic Show.

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That Which We Call Autonomous / By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet

“AI will kill us all” is a marketing proposition, but it’s not aimed at you.

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Can We Mind-Upload These Tech Bros Into Their Chatbot Trainers and Send Them on Fully Autonomous Rockets to Mars?

If you listen long enough to Hinton, you begin to wish Skynet became a reality.

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Keep Your Fire Extinguisher Handy for This Interview with Geoffrey Hinton on ChatGPT

Honestly, I didn’t expect Geoffrey Hinton’s interview to be yet another unpleasant surprise.

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“AI Drake Just Set an Impossible Legal Trap for Google”

It might be a good idea to start stocking popcorn.

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Why Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Time Op-Ed on How Current AI Systems Will Kill Us All Is Even More Unhinged than You Think

Keep a fire-extinguisher handy. Your brain will need it.

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The German Ethic Council’s Statement on “Humans and Machines”

While essentially reasonable, it’s already being undermined by the council members themselves.

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LLM’s True Problem with Misinformation, Job Impact, and Security Risks

This risk matrix comes in handy.

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A Response from the “Stochastic Parrots” Authors to the Future of Life Institute’s Open Letter

Gebru, Bender, McMillan-Major, and Mitchell being on fire.

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Bill Gates Again Manages to Keep AI in Perspective (And Autonomous Driving)

While I’m excited about advances in autonomous driving, I’d be even more excited about advances in sustainable transportation.

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Pausing the AI Hype Would Be a Good Start

This “Open Letter” wants to slow things down by stepping on the gas.

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The Best You Can Say About Bill Gates Is That He Isn’t Carried Away by AGI Nonsense

Everything else, of course, is reassuringly appalling.

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Levi’s to Use AI-Generated Models in the Name of “Diversity” and “Sustainability”

Welcome to Minidiv and Minisus.

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You Can Run a ChatGPT Clone Locally on Your PC Now

Business model sits on the wall, business model will take a great fall.

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Using ChatGPT-4 as a Coding Assistant

Don’t set the cat on fire.