Cross-posted from my blog. Motivation I believe that the most important factor in whether our AI future goes broadly well or poorly is whether people quickly develop effective AI-ready (and AI-enabled) institutions and networks[1]. In that, I agree with the recent Séb Krier's essay "Maintaining agency and control in an...
Cross-posted from my blog. This post is a reply to Eugene Kirpichov's post on Linkedin. Eugene writes that contributing to general AI and information processing capabilities (including GPUs, general LLM technology, general data processing, etc.) is probably harmful overall because these capabilities effectively increase the speed at which the civilisation...
An expert in the field (Amelie Schreiber) predicts the convergence of AI models for biology to the state where designing drugs, targeted genetic mutations (which then could be enacted through genetic therapy), or viruses for specific purposes becomes really easy in a few years. (Note: apparently, the podcast was recorded...
On AI and Jobs: How to Make AI Work With Us, Not Against Us With Daron Acemoglu Here is Claude.ai's summary of Daron Acemoglu's main ideas from the podcast: > * Historically, major productivity improvements from new technologies haven't always translated into benefits for workers. It depends on how the...
Submitted on 6 Nov 2023 Sean Tull, Razin A. Shaikh, Sara Sabrina Zemljic, Stephen Clark Abstract > In this article we present a new modelling framework for structured concepts using a category-theoretic generalisation of conceptual spaces, and show how the conceptual representations can be learned automatically from data, using two...
Yet another way to think about the alignment problem Consider two learning agents (humans or AIs) that have made different measurements of some system and have different interests (concerns) regarding how the system should be evolved or managed (controlled). Let’s set aside the discussion of bargaining power and the wider...
Reading posts like "This might be the last AI Safety Camp" makes me feel very sad. The degree to which AI Safety is currently funding-constrained is clearly inadequate on the national and civilisational levels. Maybe let's try to make a smart counter-move and accelerate the development of for-profit AI Safety...