Experts Slam OpenAI's "Meaningless" New Promises About AGI
experts are calling foul on OpenAI Sam Altman's recent blog post about artificial general intelligence and the need to have it "benefit all of humanity."| Futurism
experts are calling foul on OpenAI Sam Altman's recent blog post about artificial general intelligence and the need to have it "benefit all of humanity."| Futurism
The company often sees the future — but struggles to participate in it.| Computerworld
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the year-old startup that’s already raised $225 million and claims to run one of the world’s largest language models, sees his dialog-based chatbot as a key step toward a true AI-based personal assistant.| Forbes
Remember when New York Times journalist Kevin Roose made headlines reporting how Microsoft’s Bing chatbot (a version of GPT-4) tried to talk him into leaving his wife for “her”?| machinocene.substack.com
Father Justin was rightly defrocked within two days of his public debut. “Father Justin” was the name given to the AI-powered chatbot recently launched by Catholic Answers as an...| First Things
I gave the opening keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair yesterday. I was a late addition to the schedule: OpenAI pulled out of their slot at the last minute, …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
“You can’t be a serious critic,” New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose wrote on Tuesday, on Bluesky, about artificial intelligence, “if you’re in denial about how useful it is.” Narrowly, in strict terms, this is true: You can’t be a serious critic of anything if you are in denial about any part of it, […]| defector.com
Misaligned hive minds, Xi and Trump waking up, and automated Ilyas accelerating AI progress| www.dwarkesh.com
A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine led to it declaring its love for me.| www.nytimes.com
Professors are grappling with whether to ban ChatGPT or let students use it. But beyond this semester, larger questions loom. Will AI simply become another tool in every cheater’s arsenal, or will it radically change what it means to learn?| www.thecrimson.com
Why might someone want to spend their career working on AI safety? Learn how AI could cause catastrophe—and how you can help prevent it!| Probably Good
Why 'hallucination' is a problematic term (hint - it's not just because it anthropomorphizes the technology!) and what to do about it.| untangled.substack.com
It's not easy to stump OpenAI's new o1 models.| www.understandingai.org
PLUS: U.S. and U.K. media: What if both are bad?| maxread.substack.com
ChatGPT and other new AI services benefit from a science fiction-infused marketing frenzy unlike anything in recent memory. There's more to fear here than killer robots.| Los Angeles Times
As our ML models today become larger and their (pre-)training sets grow to inscrutable sizes, people are increasingly interested in the concept of machine unlearning to edit away undesired things like private data, stale knowledge, copyrighted materials, toxic/unsafe content, dangerous capabilities, and misinformation, without retraining models from scratch.| Ken Ziyu Liu - Stanford Computer Science
Just not in *exactly* the way you might think.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
I've long argued to prospective students that a journalism is the most flexible degree you can seek, one that can prepare you for diverse careers. It's only more true with artificial intelligence.| jeremylittau.substack.com
Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
