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Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.
1+ week, 4+ day ago (204+ words) is playing around with a new technique, in which models will reveal less of their “thinking”, making them...
BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies
2+ week, 6+ day ago (53+ words) Marcus on AI | Substack BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies Cheaper tools are thriving. What does this mean for the upcoming IPOs? FT just broke this: This is bad news. But wait, there’s more. Keep reading with…...
The Case for Boycotting Generative AI
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (1148+ words) It has become clear by now that the frontier labs are knowingly and by their own admission doing something irreversible and incredibly dangerous without public consent. They are already causing harm, and things could conceivably get much worse. They have…...
Excellent new Bill Gates essay on the urgency of having a coherent AI plan
2+ week, 3+ day ago (243+ words) Excellent new essay by Bill Gates, echoing many of the themes I have been writing about here and in my 2024 book Taming Silicon Valley: The critical, lasting importance of the decisions we make now. The risks that AI creates, around…...
OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (775+ words) The story that broke this morning—still waiting for OpenAI’s full response—blew my mind. And yet also left me unsurprised. Here are nine things I learned just in the last week: The widely discussed and worrisome Hugging Face incident…...
Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?
15+ hour, 18+ min ago (553+ words) even if we do think they should be taken with a large shaker of salt. For now, we don’t find Dario’s...
Data center madness - by Gary Marcus
3+ week, 1+ day ago (335+ words) Part I: costs and how much revenue you would need to justify those costs. Estimate #1 comes from Peter Berezin, Chief Economist at BCA Research. (You can read his full post, with some graphs and a link to a longer report, here.)…...
Anthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy
2+ week, 4+ day ago (137+ words) A lot of people (not me) are bothered by the just-reported fact that Anthropic has sometimes asked prospective employees whether they are comfortable with the possibility that the price of the company stock could potentially crash to zero. But whatever…...
No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (1130+ words) Anderson Cooper looks pretty worried here, as Jacob Coxon, the ex-OpenAI/ex-Anthropic employee who is the media darling of the moment, tells us that the human species might not be here in five years. I am here to tell you…...
Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic
3+ week, 4+ day ago (354+ words) been built out. I remember in my freshman English/Language Arts class, we read John Hersey's _Hiroshima_,...