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Ben Goertzel

@bengoertzel
7 posts
2023-12-25
An amusing hallmark of this “late pre-Singularity era” is that saying some amazing radical new technology is 10 years off from practical application counts you as a pessimistic conservative ... Thinking of this article on quantum computing, but the same applies ofc to AGI:...
2023-12-25 View on X
IEEE Spectrum

Experts warn against unrealistic expectations for quantum computers, citing the challenges in making fault-tolerant systems, qubits' slow operating speeds, more

That's the message coming from a small but vocal set of prominent skeptics in and around the emerging quantum computing industry.  —  Fault tolerance and slow operating speeds rema...

2023-08-25
Scalable Bayes nets getting some love (or at least some money), https://techcrunch.com/... — not my total fave AI paradigm but quite solid and it's good to see the investment world understands LLMs are fantastic but not the whole picture...
2023-08-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Ikigai Labs, which offers a no-code generative AI service built using large graphical models for tabular data, raised a $25M Series A led by Premji Invest

at least in the sense that they offer at least a subset of what Ikigai offers. Ikigai lands $25M investment to bring generative AI to tabular data | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.c...

2023-05-06
Some Google internal tech wizards have realized Big Tech has no sustainable advantage against OSS in terms of LLMs ... what is not yet widely seen is they have no defense against decentralized deployments either https://www.semianalysis.com/ ...
2023-05-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google, argues that open-source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI

warning the company doesn't have one in A.I. John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog : Google and Commoditization: Anyone Need a BackRub? Agne Cimermanaite / Metaverse Post : L...

2023-03-16
Nice to see OpenAI being open about their abandonment of openness. But their justifications are specious. Yes vigorous openness would be bad for Microsoft's biz model. But to make like the safety advantages of closed centralized control of AGI are obvious.. um @SingularityNET https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-16 View on X
The Verge

Experts criticize OpenAI for not disclosing GPT-4's training data or methods used; OpenAI co-founder says its past approach to openly sharing research was wrong

The system's capabilities are still being assessed, but as researchers and experts pore over its accompanying materials …

2021-01-23
One more Big Tech “shocker”: Google realizes providing Internet to the poorest billion isn't gonna provide quick massive profit after all, shuts down Project Loon ... https://techcrunch.com/... ... maybe we need @NexusOfficial after all...
2021-01-23 View on X
Wired

Alphabet says that it is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon project, calling it “a successful experiment” but not a viable one

Plus: The moonshot's launch, health care for the mask-less, and a new era's inaugural meme.  —  DO you detect something missing?

2020-02-07
Freakin' wow man ... this would be a really big step forward for the tokenomic world and for innovation in economic and business structure... very interesting... https://twitter.com/...
2020-02-07 View on X
CoinDesk

SEC commissioner proposes a three-year grace period from a startup's first token sale to achieving a level of decentralization sufficient to pass SEC evaluation

it wld need coordination w/ states tho, bc SEC has no jurisdiction over property that's not securities—that's states' jurisdiction. During grace period tokens wld be property (not ...

2020-01-27
@GaryMarcus gives a clear explanation, with examples, of what GPT2 and other transformer NNs lack in terms of fundamental comprehension ... https://thegradient.pub/...
2020-01-27 View on X
The Gradient

A critical look at OpenAI's GPT-2 text generation AI and why the knowledge acquired by systems like the GPT-2 has been superficial and unreliable

OpenAI's GPT-2 has been discussed everywhere from The New Yorker to The Economist.  What does it really tell us about natural and artificial intelligence? Tweets: @sapinker , @taly...