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Peak LLM: When You Can’t Go Wide, Go Deep
You might wonder why AI companies are working on seemingly simple and unimportant advancements in AI when there are much more significant problems to solve. Why would companies trying to create AGI get sidetracked by focusing on potentially already-solved problems? A couple of examples are OpenAI’s voice cloning, Google’s VLOGGER, and Microsoft’s VASA-1.This research, for Read more
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Challenging Posthumanist Narratives: Downsides of AI and Brain Augmentation
So, let’s talk about posthumanism for a moment. Yes, posthumanism is actually a thing, and it can sound like a rather odd movement to cheerlead. After all, we as humans aren’t done being human yet. Posthumanism’s adherents are anxiously awaiting the next stage of human evolution, homo technologicus. Yes, it’s also a real thing. I’ve Read more
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Can GPT-4 Lower Conspiracy Beliefs? Not So Fast
There has been some buzz over a new paper called Durably Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs Through Dialogs With AI. You can read the paper here. In their paper, they found a roughly 20% reduction in conspiracy beliefs, and this reduction was still in effect two months later. So far, so good. To be fair to the Read more
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Introducing SPAR – Safety Attributes for Personal AI Assistants
Everyone from tech companies to AI influencers is foaming at the mouth, attempting to get you to mainline AI into every aspect of your personal life. You are told you should outsource important decisions and allow these systems to rummage through all of your highly personal data so you can improve your life. Whatever that Read more
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Die Robot, Die! Backlash Against AI-Powered Tech Is Deeper Than People Think
Something that may have gone unnoticed in recent months is that there has been a brewing backlash against physical AI-powered devices. The most recent example of this was the crowd attacking the Waymo vehicle in San Francisco, but this is far from the only example. I started noticing this trend with AI-powered food delivery vehicles. Read more
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The Absurdity of the 1000x Productivity Increase
I wanted to take a moment to address an obvious issue. In my last post, I discussed making sense of AI predictions and gave a framework to help, but how do you make sense of the absurd? After writing that post, I’ve seen imaginings of not a 10x productivity boost from AI but 100x and Read more
