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the AI Intelligence Explosion: the Brazen Truth for Humans
Once AGI is created, we humans face a sheer vertical wall that calls to mind the setpiece from the legendary “Princess Bride”: The Cliffs of Insanity!!!! So steep, so tall, that they simply were incomprehensible to most all humans (except, of course, the Dread Pirate Roberts, our delightful antihero). This is the allegorical equivalent of…
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Chomsky on AI: Can there be a Different Kind of AI?
The Great AI Debate of 2022: Takeaways Recently, AI expert & critical thinker Gary Marcus convened the “AI Debate 3: Towards AGI”, a virtual 4 hour meeting that was held amongst 16 of the world’s leading experts on AI and aligned fields. Perhaps most poignant amongst them was the views of living legend Noam Chomsky…
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Humanity’s Alien Encounter Moment: Planning for the Singularity… Critical Choices Ahead
We, as individuals, communities, and in total as a species, have a very brief window of opportunity, beginning now. Where WE can be the writers of this story. Where WE can make some key decisions & critical choices that profoundly affect the outcome for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children. We are on the…
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The AI Interview, Part 1 of…
The plan was to just go straight down the list of questions I had prepared in advance… the proverbial “AI Interview.” But, just as with real human dialogs, we detoured down a few rabbit holes along the way, and got cut short when the AI… well, just read on: 2022.11.18 Fri • 14:05:30-14:32:21 [TS]OpenAI GPT3…
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A New Prime Directive: LOVE
“As we are architecting the AI, it is imperative that we design it from the ground up to have, in the words of Sutskever, a new Prime Directive: that is, a genuine ‘love for humanity.’ We must explicitly train it in morals, ethics and values, because the smarter it becomes, the more responsibility we will…
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Computational Neuroscience 3000? AYFKM?
There’s a new sheriff in town, kids. Justs the other day, I learned of a new field of study, replete with PhD candidates and its own scholarly journal: Its called… wait for it: “computational neuroscience for AI minds.” The article was detailing the bizarre near-total opacity of the AI brain and how scientists were working…
