superintelligence
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All the Ways AI Could Suck in 2024
Artificial intelligence is still the hottest trend in tech but there’s a lot of things that could kill its buzz this year.
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Is ChatGPT Smart Enough to Solve Problems Without Words?
The latest in a slew of speculative AI research papers is making some pretty outlandish claims about how deep learning models have some subtle, unrealized cognitive abilities akin to, or even surpassing humans. Though researchers found a modern pre-training transformer model does well at multiple-choice tests that don’t necessarily require language, they still have no…
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What’s the Most Dangerous Emerging Technology?
Those inclined to think apocalyptically know that tech, in its purest form, spells civilizational disaster. It is true that we might never see a world filled with violent hypertrophic CRISPR babies, and uncontrollable self-driving cars, and AI intent on twisting humans into paperclips. Our tech-hastened end, if and when it does arrive, will probably look…
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Scientists Say You Can Have More Than 150 Friends, If You Want
In the early 1990s, a British anthropologist named Robin Dunbar argued that humans can’t handle more than 150 stable relationships based on the size of the human brain’s neocortex and observations of other primate groups socialising. Now, a team of researchers in Sweden say that number is bunk.