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Safety vs Speed: the AI Jihad / Nov 2023
Upon further examination of the Meltdown / Coup at OpenAI, a story is starting to materialize. This isn’t about money. This is about religion. The epic battle of Safety vs Speed. This is the Jihad that’s been rocking AI frontlines for years now. So: this was not a corporate takeover from Microsoft. And no, this…
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ALTMAN FIRED: The Prematurely Reported Death of Mr. Altman – 11/17/23
BREAKING NEWS // TUES // NOV 21, 2023 // 10PM PST SAM ALTMAN RETURNS TO OPENAI IN TRIUMPH. TONER & MCCAULEY EJECTED FROM BOARD. NEW BOARD ESTABLISHED. NADELLA GOES INTO THERAPY. SUTSKEVER GROVELS & PRAYS. BACK TO WORK. Eric Schmidt sums it up: “It’s pretty simple: The board fires Sam. Sam fires the board.“ <TL/DR>…
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AI forecast 2030: Hypercapitalism, AutoCorps & the shocking Future of Humanity
We’ve now had an entire year for the mainstream populace to play with and grasp the consequences of a superintelligent AGI — namely, ChatGPT (and its siblings, children, and distant cousins). Now, it’s time to look at our AI forecast, and what that bodes for us and our civilization. For ease of digestion, I’ve broken…
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What is an Accelerationista? Audacity of the Phoenix Civilization c.2028
As a young adult, I developed several theories about how I would move through the world. One, which I describe below, I called “Gas Pedal.” I did not realise at the time that it would align quite well with the societal plan of the Accelerationista. This is a serious and powerful school of thought that…
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AI Computer Vision w/GPT4-V: Scene Description + Object Recognition, SOLVED
At the dawn of the 21st century — before ImageNet, before Transformer — I co-founded and ran an AI computer-vision based videogame company (PlayMotion, alongside Scott Wills, Matt Flagg, & Suzanne Roshto — that tale is a much longer story and a wonderful adventure that we’ll save for another day). At the time, AI Computer…
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10 Trillion Dollars (USD): What happens when the Accelerationistas Win
I recently returned from the first annual(?) TED/AI Conference, and one particular presenter, Cathy Wood of ARK Investments, exploded my brain and ushered me into new ways of thinking. The reason? Quite simply, her casual (and authoritative!) tone as she talked about emerging industries which were expected to be measured in numbers well north of…
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Danger! Danger! Self-Driving Cars: Statistics vs. Politics in 2024
On this one, I’m siding with the robots. Self-driving cars today are already provably safer — far safer — than human drivers. There are a few caveats to this, and several subtleties to grok to understand the shape of the debate. Lets examine the angles: Self-Driving Cars are Statistically Safer today, fully automated self-driving cars…
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The Death of the Internet and the Genesis of Language 1.0
The Internet was beginning, around the turn of the century, to be the end sum repository for all human knowledge. All thoughts, all books, all diaries, all photos, all videos… basically, a document repository of everything significant (and insignificant) piece of media that humans had every produced, from the beginning of history to the present…
