Super excited to be involved with Cresta - a company that brings self-driving car ideas to transform all of office work: jobs.lever.co/cresta

In my headcanon, "aligned agents" of the future (i.e. that reliably do what the users want) will be trained to be helpful to *simulated* "users"... who are slowly becoming increasingly more obstinate, cryptic, and unfathomable. Aligning with humans will be trivial after that!

If you're thinking of sending me an email phrased by chatGPT, just send me the prompt you used and cut the verbiage. It used to take much more time to write an email than to read it. Now those economics are upended.

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Reading @MetaAI's Segment-Anything, and I believe today is one of the "GPT-3 moments" in computer vision. It has learned the *general* concept of what an "object" is, even for unknown objects, unfamiliar scenes (e.g. underwater & cell microscopy), and ambiguous cases. I still

How Google is racing against rivals to translate AI advances into products used widely by medical clinicians wsj.com/articles/in-ba… via The Wall Street Journal

Based on personal experience Indiana Jones movies are only good when viewed on VHS

What is it called when you have high gdp growth, high unemployment and high asset inflation?

If you're bored to death in the metaverse, you're bored to death in real life.

This clever campaign nudged me to donate blood today. Google UK Sarah Lewin x.com/GoogleUK/statu…

Comet Hitchhiker nasa.gov/content/comet-…

Watched The Martian Movie on International Space Station last night! Today working towards our #JourneyToMars during my #YearInSpace!

The Angry Liberal Twitterverse sure is exhausting. (I'm sure the Angry Conservative Twitterverse is the same, but nobody I follow is in it)

How ‘South Park’ Perfectly Captures Our Era of Outrage nyti.ms/1IDpht9

What does one name an English language parsing model built with an open-source NN framework? goo.gl/VDL7VW

The world is running dangerously low on helium. This discovery reinflates our supply wpo.st/vu3j1

Le chercheur Sylvain Martel sur les tumeurs cancéreuses à Tout Le Monde ... youtu.be/rmH_-54Ehb0 via YouTube

In case you missed this: alphago zero is a huge reinforcement learning leap. dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature…

Exciting developments from the Stanford School of Medicine. Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/…

Today's #GoogleDoodle celebrates John Harrison, an English, self-educated clockmaker and carpenter, who came to the rescue of countless sailors by creating the first marine chronometer to calculate longitude at sea.