existential risk from artificial general intelligence
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Maybe We Shouldn’t Let AI Destroy the News Media, Says US Congress
The U.S. Congress has finally started paying attention to the threat AI poses to an already struggling journalism industry.
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How to Make Artificial Intelligence More Human in 2024
In the last year, computers started acting strangely human. As OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever put it, you can think of AI as a “digital brain”, one that’s directly modeled after that of a human. Just like a young child, AI has incentives and learns from those around it. If ChatGPT was a young child, it would…
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Why the Entire AI World Was Talking About “Q” Last Week
In the aftermath of last week’s shocking OpenAI power struggle, there was one final revelation that acted as a kind of epilogue to the sprawling mess: a report from Reuters that revealed a supposedly startling breakthrough at the startup. That breakthrough allegedly happened via a little known program dubbed “Q-Star” or “Q*.” According to the…
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This AI Safety Summit Is a Doomer’s Paradise
A first-of-its-kind international AI safety summit will highlight dystopian fears like runaway rogue AI and computer-generated bioweapons.