How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral
Piketty was wrong about the past. He's probably right about the future. — 1. Introduction X: @briancalbrecht , @saikatc , @harryh , @jankulveit , @daniel_271828 , @krishnanrohit , @besttrousers , @...
Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more
AGI is still a decade away (via) Extremely high signal 2 hour 25 minute (! … X: Ashpreet Bedi / @ashpreetbedi : This is exactly why we recommend keeping it simple and focusing on clarity and reliabili...
A look at the tech industry's lack of consensus on what AGI or ASI is, whether LLMs are the best path, and what the tech might look like if or when it arrives
It has been tipped as the next big breakthrough out of Silicon Valley, but is it a scientific goal — or a marketing buzzword? Bluesky: @jjaron . X: @starcourse Bluesky: Jacob Aron / @jjaron : Brillian...
A deep dive into AI as a normal technology vs. a humanlike intelligence and how major public policy based on controlling superintelligence may make things worse
An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence — We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. Bluesky: @taumuyi , @knightcolumbia.org , @tedunder...
Sources: DeepSeek has shown little intention to further commercialize its tech in the near term, instead focusing on model development and building AGI
160-person team focused on developing new models TechRadar : OpenAI calls on US government to ban DeepSeek, calling it ‘state-subsidized’ and ‘state-controlled’ Diya Lal / Tech in Asia : DeepSeek deni...
Q&A with Google Gemini co-leads Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer on Google's path to AGI, the future of Moore's Law, TPUs, inference scaling, open research, and more
“as we scale up [training], there may be a push to have a bit more asynchrony in our systems than we do now” 👀 Haider / @slow_developer : Google Chief Scientist, Jeff Dean “AI now generates 25% of Goo...
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits
China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, given OpenAI's found...
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups
Company insiders explain why safety-conscious employees are leaving. https://www.vox.com/... vs #ai #openai X: Sam Altman / @sama : i'm super appreciative of @janleike's contributions to openai's alig...
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups
During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/AI circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAI Austen Allred / @aust...
Sources: blockchain AI companies SingularityNET, Fetch.ai, and Ocean Protocol are discussing merging their tokens into ASI, with a ~$7.5B fully diluted value
Three artificial intelligence companies that operate on blockchain are in talks to merge their crypto tokens, a move aimed at helping them develop a decentralized AI platform.