Such a tender portrait of courage and commitment, within a cliché of masculinity washingtonpost.com/sports/interac…

The potential of udio as a creative tool is pretty astonishing - for example: udio.com/songs/gajKkTvi…

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." web-assets.bcg.com/1b/8e/71e0d6f4…

Say hello to GPT-4o, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time: openai.com/index/hello-gp… Text and image input rolling out today in API and ChatGPT with voice and video in the coming weeks.

Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ LeCun p(doom) = 0.001; Yudkowsky p(doom) = .999; Ensemble p(doom) = 0.5;

Testing, evaluating, and securing GenAI deployments in a scalable and repeatable manner is difficult. BCG X have just released an 'Automated Red Teaming' Kit to support teams do this efficiently, consistently and to a higher standard. Check it out: github.com/BCG-X-Official…

Solar, Wind and Batteries ftw! H/t Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-fiv…

New on Air Street Press: Now that LLMs can convincingly automate much of a bored human’s tasks, attention is turning to “agentic AI”. In this piece, we evaluate how far advanced this work actually is, look at both promising research directions and the challenges ahead. Thread:

S. Korea spent $200b trying to increase its birthrate. Hungary spends 5% of GDP. Both are failing. Yet the small country of Georgia spiked its birthrate massively without spending a dollar. How? They understood that fertility isn't about money. It's about status.

“more money has been spent on the Lower Thames Crossing’s planning application alone than it cost Norway to not only build the world’s longest road tunnel (the Laerdal tunnel), but also the world’s deepest subsea road tunnel.” 😣 open.substack.com/pub/samdumitri…

Disappointed by Bluehost - egregious example of pricing policies that impose a penalty on loyal customers :-( Competition & Markets Authority gov.uk/government/pub…

Fantastic work by the ai safety institute aisi.gov.uk/work/our-first… ‘World-leading’ gets touted regularly in UK, often egregiously. But the AISI is an *actually* world-leading capability in something very important! We need to celebrate and support it!!

Pessimists mudded

I spoke at the House of Lords last week on the topic of What does it mean to be human in a world of AI? Speech here: open.substack.com/pub/richardsar…

I'm really fascinated by this dataset from the AI poetry survey paper. Here's another visualization I just made. Survey respondents were shown one of these 10 poems, and either told that they were authored by AI, human, or not told anything.

The reason everything will not change quickly, even if AI generally exceeds human abilities across fields, is, in large part, the nature of systems. Organizational and societal change is much slower than technological change, even when the incentives to change quickly are there.

If you have ever tried to read free books from sites like Project Gutenberg, you noticed that they can be uncomfortable to read, due to their layouts, type & occasional errors This project takes those free books and makes them beautiful (and still free). standardebooks.org

The 21st century is 1/4 over.

We’re releasing Humanity’s Last Exam, a dataset with 3,000 questions developed with hundreds of subject matter experts to capture the human frontier of knowledge and reasoning. State-of-the-art AIs get <10% accuracy and are highly overconfident. pak.ai Scale.ai

Eru Iluvatar Edward Feser Not what I'm looking for, but looks fascinating!