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Snoop Dogg, sentient AI and the ‘Arrival Mind Paradox’

October 23, 2023
Like many longtime technologists, I am deeply worried about the dangers of AI, both for its near-term risk to society and its long-term threat to humanity. Back in 2016 I put a date on my greatest concerns, warning that we could achieve Artificial Superintelligence by 2030 and Sentient Superintelligence soon thereafter. My words got attention back then, but often for the wrong reasons — with…
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How to police the AI data feed

October 22, 2023
Over the last year, AI has taken the world by storm, and some have been left wondering: Is AI moments away from enslaving the human population, the latest tech fad, or something far more nuanced?\ It’s complicated. On one hand, ChatGPT was able to pass the bar exam —…
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Oracle loops in Nvidia AI for end-to-end model development

October 21, 2023
Oracle just made another move to simplify AI development and deployment for its customers. This week, the Larry Ellison-founded company announced it is bringing Nvidia AI stack to its marketplace. The move gives Oracle customers access to the most sought after, top-of-the-line GPUs for training foundation models and building generative applications. Under the partnership, the company said it is…
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New Nvidia AI agent, powered by GPT-4, can train robots

October 21, 2023
Nvidia Research announced today that it has developed a new AI agent, called Eureka, that is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and can autonomously teach robots complex skills. In a blog post, the company said Eureka, which autonomously writes reward algorithms, has, for the…
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Meta recreates mental imagery from brain scans using AI

October 21, 2023
The computing interfaces of the not-too-distant future might move beyond touchscreens and keyboards — even past eyes and hand gestures, to the inside of our own minds. Society is not quite there yet, but we are moving closer. Researchers at Meta Platforms, Inc., parent of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus VR, today announced Image Decoder, a new deep learning application based on Meta’s…
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Anthropic brings Claude AI to more countries, but still no Canada (for now)

October 20, 2023
Anthropic, the “Constitutional AI” foundation model startup from San Francisco that is perhaps the foremost rival to OpenAI, made a big move this week, bringing its Claude 2 large language model (LLM) chatbot to 95 countries total, including: “We’re rolling out access to Claude.ai to more people around the world,” the company posted on X (formerly Twitter). “Starting today, users in 95…
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