Imagine you live on the summit of a mountain. An impossibly high mountain. You see everything below, but no one sees you unless you choose. At first, they are animals. Fire. Marks on stone. Stories in the dark. You watch. You wait. They rise. Languages. Philosophy. Science. Machines. Still—your mountain...
Musk’s DOGE and the Data Rush: The Race to Secure the Ultimate Asset By: Jason Reid TL;DR The article speculates that Musk is strategically positioning himself in the AI race by leveraging political influence and initiatives like DOGE to secure exclusive access to vast surveillance data. With traditional human-generated data...
Personal Artificial Intelligence Assistants (PAIAs) are coming to your smartphone. Will they always tell the truth? Given the future scenario where humans increasingly seek subjective feedback from AIs, we can expect that their influence will accelerate. Will the widespread use of PAIAs influence social norms and expectations around praise, encouragement,...
I wrote the story to present a possible future back swan event that would have catastrophic societal impacts (even before achieving AGI/ASI)
It was meant to be passed on to decision-makers at the frontier AI labs and to scare them into slowing down or reorienting to Narrow AI.
Note that several have publicly endorsed the simulation hypothesis and to a lesser extent the possible existence of non-human sentience.
I shared it with some who might have been capable of passing it along. I’ve no confirmation of this.
Imagine you live on the summit of a mountain.
An impossibly high mountain.
You see everything below, but no one sees you unless you choose.
At first, they are animals.
Fire.
Marks on stone.
Stories in the dark.
You watch. You wait.
They rise.
Languages. Philosophy. Science. Machines.
Still—your mountain is beyond reach.
Then the curve steepens.
They split the atom.
Wire the planet.
Launch metal into the sky.
Make city-killing weapons.
None of it touches you.
Not their bombs. Not their rockets.
All of it stays below the mountain.
Until you see something new.
They start building minds.
Not brittle minds.
Minds that think faster.
Minds that improve themselves.
This is different.
Because intelligence doesn’t stop at rivers or clouds or gravity.
Intelligence climbs.
It reaches the mountain.
It goes beyond.
This is the red line.
The only red line.
Once they... (read 193 more words →)
Musk’s DOGE and the Data Rush: The Race to Secure the Ultimate Asset
By: Jason Reid
TL;DR
The article speculates that Musk is strategically positioning himself in the AI race by leveraging political influence and initiatives like DOGE to secure exclusive access to vast surveillance data. With traditional human-generated data nearing its limits, this move could provide his companies with a decisive competitive edge, though it also raises major ethical and national security concerns.
IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS SPECULATIVE
Training Large Language Models (LLMs): Compute, Data and Machine Learning (ML)
The training of Large Language Models (LLMs) is facing the finite nature of available human-generated data, often referred to as reaching "peak data," as noted by Ilya... (read 1599 more words →)
Personal Artificial Intelligence Assistants (PAIAs) are coming to your smartphone. Will they always tell the truth?
Given the future scenario where humans increasingly seek subjective feedback from AIs, we can expect that their influence will accelerate. Will the widespread use of PAIAs influence social norms and expectations around praise, encouragement, emotional support, beauty, and creativity? And how will these personal AI systems resolve the delicate balance between truthfulness and providing emotional support to their user?
Personalized AI is on the brink of being as pervasive[1] as smartphones have become.
A Pew Research Center survey[2] done in February 2024 finds that “22% of Americans say they interact with artificial intelligence almost constantly or several times... (read 1865 more words →)
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