Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization, “I Hope There’s Nobody Inside There”
April 3rd, 2023I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been reading, watching and listening to things like this all weekend. Via: Lex Fridman: Related: They Don’t Know How It Works In the Battle Between Microsoft and Google, LLM Is the Weapon Too Deadly to Use
Boston Dynamics: Stretch
March 30th, 2023Via: Boston Dynamics:
RESTRICT Act Is Orwellian Censorship Grab Disguised As Anti-TikTok Legislation
March 30th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: The RESTRICT Act, introduced by Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tom Thune (R-SD), is aimed at blocking or disrupting transactions and financial holdings linked to foreign adversaries that pose a risk to national security, however the language of the bill could be used to give the US government enormous power to punish free […]
Musk, Experts Urge Pause on AI Systems, Citing ‘Risks to Society’
March 29th, 2023Leading AGI developers will not heed this warning, but at least it was said — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 29, 2023 Via: New York Post: Elon Musk is part of a group urging a six-month pause in the training of advanced artificial intelligence models following ChatGPT’s rise – arguing the systems could pose “profound risks […]
$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs
March 29th, 2023This sounds like something that would pay about a dollar per hour on Mechanical Turk. Via: Bloomberg: Everybody is talking about the artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT. Less noticed is a jobs market mushrooming around the technology, where these newly created roles can pay upwards of $335,000 a year. And for many a computer engineering degree […]
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Children’s Health Defense Sue Biden, Fauci for Alleged Censorship
March 28th, 2023Via: The Defender: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Children’s Health Defense (CHD) on Friday filed a class action lawsuit against President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top administration officials and federal agencies, alleging they “waged a systematic, concerted campaign” to compel the nation’s three largest social media companies to censor constitutionally protected speech. Kennedy, […]
RESTRICT Act: Overly-Broad and Has Major Privacy and Free Speech Implications
March 28th, 2023Via: Reclaim the Net: Observers note that if somebody or something is designated as a threat to national security, under the proposed legislation, the government would be given full access to these entities. The text of the act singles out several usual suspects as foreign adversaries, such as Russia, China, Iran, etc., but, the director […]
Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4, “Exhibits Emergent Behaviors and Capabilities Whose Sources and Mechanisms Are, at This Moment, Hard to Discern Precisely”
March 26th, 2023They don’t know how it works. Via: arXiv – Microsoft Research: Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have been developing and refining large language models (LLMs) that exhibit remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. The latest model developed by OpenAI, GPT-4 [Ope23], was trained using an unprecedented […]
Up to 80 Percent of Workers Could See Jobs Impacted by AI
March 26th, 2023Paper: GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models: Our findings indicate that approximately 80% of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10% of their work tasks affected by the introduction of GPTs, while around 19% of workers may see at least 50% of their tasks […]
ChatGPT Now Hooks with Wolfram Alpha
March 25th, 2023Update: ChatGPT + Wolfram: The Future of AI is Here: Via: Stephen Wolfram: Under the hood, ChatGPT is formulating a query for Wolfram|Alpha—then sending it to Wolfram|Alpha for computation, and then “deciding what to say” based on reading the results it got back.
