2/ Wikipedia is one of the most unlikely, staggering achievement of our species, a global effort of millions of people working together without any personal benefit (except for feeling smug). How did the internet go from that to the commodification of fckng everything?

Big news: Douglas Hofstadter, a legendary scholar and famous AI skeptic, changed his mind: "I think [AI progress] is terrifying. I hate it. I think about it practically all the time, every single day.” “It feels as if the entire human race is about to be eclipsed and left in

David Deutsch (David Deutsch) on the poverty of 'P(Doom)': "If you ask somebody, 'What's your subjective probability for AI Doom?', well, if they say anything other than zero or one, then your interlocutor has already won the argument. Because even if you said 'one in a

LATENT DICTIONARY A dictionary, but it shows you position in embedding space relative to some synonyms/antonyms instead of a definition. I tweeted about this a couple months ago and finally got around to building it. Enjoy! 🦾 latentdictionary.com

One thing programming teaches you is to look for reasons why you're wrong, instead of looking for reasons why you're right If the computer is not doing what you expected, it's almost always because your mental model is incorrect, not because the computer is incorrect

Okinawa/OIST Computational Neuroscience Course 2024 (OCNC 2024): Apply now! This unique summer course supports students to develop their own research project in computational neuroscience. groups.oist.jp/ocnc

I’m playing around with calling our tech, as it is today, IA (intelligence amplification) instead of AI. IA have the vibe of tools for thought, needing human interaction, and resemble a lot more what we actually have today. AI feels more like independent long-running agents.

A.I. photos are flooding social media and contributing to an Internet where we can't believe what we see. Spotting A.I. 📷s is an important media literacy skill. It takes a few seconds to spot a fake and stop the spread of disinformation. Let's learn how! 🧵(1/5)

The #NobelPrizeinPhysics2024 for Hopfield & Hinton rewards plagiarism and incorrect attribution in computer science. It's mostly about Amari's "Hopfield network" and the "Boltzmann Machine." 1. The Lenz-Ising recurrent architecture with neuron-like elements was published in

Flux 1.1 does pretty decent political cartoons, so I wired up a glif workflow that let's Gemini Pro 1.5 write the cartoon and then passes it on the Flux the cartoonist to render "EU regulations"

We just dropped our interview with Joscha Bach - here is a clip of him reiterating that Deep Learning didn't hit a wall and his admiration for François Chollet courage releasing the ARC Prize

Last week we hosted 3 days of events to mark our official launch. Huge thanks to everyone who joined - your presence and support means a lot; and to all teams, beings, and supporting organizations who contributed to making this event happen. Joscha Bach Erik Newton Lou de K

Our idea of decompression post-California Institute for Machine Consciousness launch: a trip to Edge City and more philosophizing around machine consciousness 🧠 🦾 Joscha Bach Christine Peterson Erik Newton

recently the NYT asked a court to force us to not delete any user chats. we think this was an inappropriate request that sets a bad precedent. we are appealing the decision. we will fight any demand that compromises our users' privacy; this is a core principle.