AI is not some sort of natural phenomenon that will just emerge and become dangerous.
*WE* design it and *WE* build it.

I can imagine thousands of scenarios where a turbojet goes terribly wrong.
Yet we managed to make turbojets insanely reliable before deploying them widely.

Neurotech has become frothy. It is net positive, but technical journalism has a role to play. Naveen Rao has been keeping founders honest. This substack is both brutal and reasonable: “Neurotech has too much head-nodding, passive click-scrolling, hypemongering already. If you see

Day to day moments that make you go 🤔: ‘edge cases’ or ‘prediction errors’ (red dress lady in The Matrix) are represented as activity of dopamine neurons in the midbrain. The frequency dependence of this effect is due to the rate (not the number) of action potentials produced by

From the Medical Device Manufacturers Assn conference yesterday: Medicare official says breakthrough device reimbursement rule coming in early summer
statnews.com/2024/04/19/med…

Daniel Dennett has died - genuinely devastated. Will forever miss his presence in the intellectual universe and our discussions. dailynous.com/2024/04/19/dan…

Most powerful MRI of brain yet. 11.7 Tesla

newatlas.com/medical/powerf… CEA

On device LLM is announced by Apple. In-context learning abilities for personalized AI - a big deal for privacy. We are excited to make it available to our users through digitised thoughts alone (DMOs). Evan Schnell arxiv.org/abs/2403.09611.

Nice one youtu.be/3jwVBroYd3Q?si…

Incredible progress. BCI technology is more awesome than people realize. Well done Neuralink