Remarks on AI from NZ - by Neal Stephenson - Graphomane
Last week I participated in a panel discussion on AI as part of a private event in New Zealand.| nealstephenson.substack.com
...| The Homebound Symphony
Last week I participated in a panel discussion on AI as part of a private event in New Zealand.| nealstephenson.substack.com
...| The Homebound Symphony
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In the decade that I have been working on AI, I’ve watched it grow from a tiny academic field to arguably the most important economic and geopolitical issue in the world. In all that time, perhaps the most important lesson I’ve learned is this: the progress of the underlying technology is inexorable, driven by forces too powerful to stop, but the way in which it happens—the order in which things are built, the applications we choose, and the details of how it is rolled out to society...| www.darioamodei.com
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (The MIT Press) : Marshall Mcluhan, Lewis H. Lapham: Amazon.co.uk: Books| www.amazon.co.uk
The machine wants you mentally flabby and gorging on slop| www.maryharrington.co.uk
AI, human nature, and the revolt of the engineers| www.maryharrington.co.uk
Evidence For (and Against) Emergent World Models in LLMs| aiguide.substack.com
How do Large Language Models Make Sense of Their “Worlds”?| aiguide.substack.com
The company thinks it’s an innovator. In fact, it’s an imitator—and not the best one, either.| The Atlantic
Those Tumblr, Reddit, and WordPress posts you never thought would see the light of day? Yep, them too.| Vox
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ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?| Benedict Evans
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.| Future of Life Institute
A note from the author You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, titled "Driver". This article is about the standard test brain image. For the original human, see Mi...| qntm.org
