Are OpenAI employees unloading at the moment of peak AI hype? | Continue reading
Wowed by a new paper I just read and wish I had thought to write myself. Lukas Berglund and others, led by Owain Evans, asked a simple, powerful, elegant question: can LLMs trained on A is B infer automatically that B is A? The shocking (yet, in historical context, see below, uns … | Continue reading
Friday will be six months after the infamous “pause letter”, signed by Yoshua Bengio, myself, Steve Wozniak, Rachel Bronson, Viktoria Krakovna, Tristan Harris, Gillian Hadfield, Ian Hogarth, Elon Musk, and tens of thousands of other people. Since then everything has c … | Continue reading
A true visionary, gone too soon | Continue reading
Surveillance capitalism just keeps going and going | Continue reading
As I wrote the other day, p(doom) is somewhat-tongue-in-cheek shorthand for the probability that we are all going to die from some AI-induced extinction event. I rather doubt that will happen, but I am not sure that it won’t. What I am sure of, though, is that our chances t … | Continue reading
No, we probably won’t all die anytime soon, but there is still a lot to be worried about. | Continue reading
The number one reason I hear us for not regulating AI is that if we don’t China will beat us, and if China beats us, we are all screwed, because they would use AI to different ends than we would. Like, presumably, surveilling their citizens. We would never do that. Right? R … | Continue reading
August has not been kind to generative AI | Continue reading
A very short post on why a new paper is making me nervous | Continue reading
Don’t believe what you read | Continue reading
Edge cases remain a serious, unsolved problem, a hundred billion dollars later. | Continue reading
X (formerly known as Twitter) could easily be a casualty of this war | Continue reading
LLMs are creating a huge sanitation problem that will probably never be solved | Continue reading
Some AI makes a ton of money; a lot of it is still speculative | Continue reading
Some possible economic and geopolitical implications | Continue reading
Customizable governance-in-a-box, catalyzed by philanthropy | Continue reading
It’s good that governments are stepping up, but some of the signals are deeply worrisome | Continue reading
Finding common ground with Geoff Hinton | Continue reading
“It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things” -- but we must try | Continue reading
Regulation doesn’t always stifle innovation | Continue reading
No, they haven’t decided to teach themselves anything, they don’t love you back, and they still aren’t even a little bit sentient. | Continue reading
Rumors of AGI's imminent arrival are greatly exaggerated | Continue reading
What we do and don’t know, and why it matters | Continue reading
Some thoughts on AI risks, near-term and long-term, some recent controversies in AI, and why we are in trouble if we can’t find a way to work together | Continue reading
Don’t go breaking my GDPR | Continue reading
The letter wasn’t perfect; a lot of the criticism was misguided. What should we actually do? | Continue reading
Breaking news: The letter that I mentioned earlier today is now public. It calls for a 6 month moratorium on training systems that are “more powerful than GPT-4”. A lot of notable people signed. I joined in. I had no hand in drafting it, and there are things to fuss o … | Continue reading
Superintelligence may or may not be imminent. But there’s a lot to be worried about, either way. | Continue reading
Marching into the future with an obstructed view | Continue reading
A few more words about bullshit | Continue reading
How GPT-4 fits into the larger tapestry of the quest for artificial general intelligence | Continue reading
We can’t just act as if nothing is happening here. And we can’t act like we have infinite time to decide what to do, either. | Continue reading
Four attacks on Chomsky’s recent op-ed, and why their punches don’t quite land | Continue reading
We don’t really know what’s coming. | Continue reading
The game is afoot, but a lot of folks are still in denial | Continue reading
Microsoft definitely doesn’t have this under control | Continue reading
An essay on technology and policy, co-authored with Canadian Parliament Member Michelle Rempel Garner. | Continue reading
Chatbots don’t have feelings, but people do. We need to start thinking about the consequences. | Continue reading
A new discovery that makes a curious story a whole lot more curious | Continue reading
And how did some prominent journalists utterly miss this initially? | Continue reading
Apparently “superhuman” intelligence, even in limited domains, isn’t always what you think | Continue reading
Why doing psychology on large language models is harder than you might think | Continue reading
A lot is going wrong all at once. Not sure it is coincidence; my flight is about to take off but a quick note, on three major bits of AI news: Tesla FSD recall, today Google stock drop after Bard fiasco, last week Microsoft must be having a code red over the Bing meltdowns, espec … | Continue reading
We are living in the Wild AI West. Get used to it. | Continue reading
A week ago, the New York Times gushed about Bing, heralding a revolution. The internet doesn’t seem convinced | Continue reading
How sewers of lies could spell the end of web search | Continue reading