Monthly Archives: April 2023

There were two big developments this week. One is that Google merged Google Brain and DeepMind into the new Google DeepMind. DeepMind head and founder Demis Hassabis is in charge of the new division. We will see how this plays … Continue reading →

Yann LeCun is Chief AI Scientist at Meta. This week, Yann engaged with Eliezer Yudkowsky on Twitter, doubling down on Yann’s position that it is dangerously irresponsible to talk about smarter-than-human AI as an existential threat to humanity.

Response To: Via Marginal Revolution, Brian Slesinsky proposes a tax on language model API calls.

I ran an experimental poll sequence on Twitter a few weeks back, on the subject of what would happen if a hostile ASI (Artificial Superintelligence) tried to take over the world and kill all humans, using only ordinary known techs. … Continue reading →

The big news this week was that OpenAI is not training GPT-5, and that China’s draft rules look to be crippling restrictions on their ability to develop LLMs. After all that talk of how a pause was impossible and working … Continue reading →

Previously: The Changing Face of Twitter Right after I came out with a bunch of speculations about Twitter and its algorithm, we got a whole bunch of concrete info detailing exactly how much of Twitter’s algorithms work. Thus, it makes … Continue reading →

Previously: Escape Velocity From Bullshit Jobs They took our jobs! They took… several of our jobs? “ChatGPT does like 80 percent of my job,” said one worker. Another is holding the line at four robot-performed jobs. “Five would be overkill,” … Continue reading →

This week’s biggest AI development was the rise of AutoGPT and the concept of turning GPTs into agents via code wrapping that gives them memory, plans and the ability to spin up instantiations. I moved that to its own post, which … Continue reading →

The primary talk of the AI world recently is about AI agents. The trigger for this was AutoGPT, now number one on GitHub, which allows you to turn GPT-4 (or GPT-3.5 for us clowns without proper access) into a prototype … Continue reading →

Recently: The Kids are Not Okay, Childhood Roundup #1, Fertility Roundup #1 It seems like a good time to go over the interesting relevant stuff I’ve found since the last time I did one of these. Executive Summary and Table … Continue reading →