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What's the reward awaiting at the end of this long task!!

I think intelligence is somewhat coextensional with the ability of having very deep and detailed dreams about possible futures of the world state you are entangled with. AI needs more real-time, better representations, different loss functions etc., but it has started dreaming

Zulya trio at Melbourne Recital Centre July 2 - mailchi.mp/556bb9b03dd3/z…

First ever performance of Kosmostan from Zulya and band. The piece follows the legend of Tataeli, the daughter of Aelita, queen of Mars, taking listeners on an otherworldly journey from the Tatar villages, through 70-s Tatar pop into deep Tatar space - mailchi.mp/fbf02a610631/z…

For all the data on oxytocin & love & social bonding, “allogrooming”: receiving non-sexual cleaning type touch from another human (think hair brushing, hair cut, skin care or even someone applying the lint roller to your shirt) leads to huge increases in oxytocin. Who knew?

Money is not the blood of an economy, but its dopamine. Blood is transporting actual value (nutrients and garbage), while dopamine signals anticipated reward. Adding more blood is just stressing the infrastructure, but by adding more dopamine, you're gogetting now and crash later

Are we going to replace "just google it" with "just bing it" any time soon? Has it already happened? #binggoogle #googleversusbing

This collection of slow motion videos of objects falling in water and cornflour result in spectacular fluid motion effects, with highly unexpected but extremely satisfying geometries and shapes [📹 buff.ly/3F3pqrc] x.com/trinukso2/stat…

Indeed the body is important, but words are used to describe most things, and we rely too much on ideas not feelings. #embodied

@SurviveThrive2 Love is the recognition of sacredness (purpose above the ego) in the other

When you have the choice between being creator, consumer or redistributor, always go for creation. Not only does it lead to a more beautiful world but also to a much more satisfying life for yourself. And don’t get stuck preparing yourself for the journey, the time is always now

Yann LeCun is not worried about AGI because he does not think that intelligence entails agency, based on his observations of human minds. Others are worried because they think that agency entails intelligence, and AGI might be achieved through building an agency maximizer.

"The truth is that your left brain has been interpreting reality for you your whole life, and if you are like most people, you have never understood the full implications of this...we mistake the story of who we think we are for who we truly are." google.com/url?q=https://…

I’ve wrote down some thoughts on the possibility of aligning agentic AGI with human survival joscha.substack.com/p/the-existent…

Population: 1. India 🇮🇳 1,428,598,765 2. China 🇨🇳 1,425,672,868 3. USA 🇺🇸 339,992,663 4. Indonesia 🇮🇩 277,529,799 5. Pakistan 🇵🇰 240,475,940 6. Nigeria 🇳🇬 223,793,955 7. Brazil 🇧🇷 216,419,321 8. Bangladesh 🇧🇩 172,950,908 9. Russia 🇷🇺 144,445,025 10. Mexico 🇲🇽 128,453,827 . 12.

If we agree that UBI is not coming soon, and that we want artists to be able to make a living, what new laws do we need to ensure that artists continue to thrive, in the generative era? Personally, I would start with: No AI training without consent and compensation.

A "cognitive bias" is a systematic error in thinking that ruins decision-making. The 12 most powerful cognitive biases I've found:

Google released VideoPoet, and it's insane It's literally ChatGPT for: - Text-to-Video - Image-to-Video - Inpainting - Video Editing Here're 10 crazy examples: