Justin Watson

No part of my worldview is the same after talking with Carl Shulman Maybe 3 people in the world have thought as rigorously about so many interesting topics Part 1 is about Carl's model of an intelligence explosion (We ended up talking for 8 hrs, so I'm splitting this episode into 2 parts) Integrates everything from: - how fast algorithmic progress & hardware improvements in AI are happening - what primate evolution suggests about the scaling hypothesis - how soon before AIs could do large parts of AI research themselves, and whether there would be faster and faster doublings of AI researchers - how quickly robots produced from existing factories could take over the economy We also discuss the odds of a takeover based on whether the AI is aligned before the intelligence explosion happens, and Carl explains why he’s more optimistic than Eliezer The next part, which I’ll release next week, is about all the specific mechanisms of an AI takeover, plus a whole bunch of other galaxy brain stuff

No part of my worldview is the same after talking with Carl Shulman Maybe 3 people in the world have thought as rigorously about so many interesting topics Part 1 is about Carl's model of an intelligence explosion (We ended up talking for 8 hrs, so I'm splitting this episode into 2 parts) Integrates everything from: - how fast algorithmic progress & hardware improvements in AI are happening - what primate evolution suggests about the scaling hypothesis - how soon before AIs could do large parts of AI research themselves, and whether there would be faster and faster doublings of AI researchers - how quickly robots produced from existing factories could take over the economy We also discuss the odds of a takeover based on whether the AI is aligned before the intelligence explosion happens, and Carl explains why he’s more optimistic than Eliezer The next part, which I’ll release next week, is about all the specific mechanisms of an AI takeover, plus a whole bunch of other galaxy brain stuff

The largest independent AI company productized the toolformer concept faster than anyone else. Crazy.

The big challenge for AI dialog systems over the next year or so is to make them factual, non-toxic, up to date, and capable of using tools like calculators, databases, search engines, simulators, or in this case, a simple calendar with today's date.

For those who aren't aware: you write an OpenAPI manifest for your API, use human language descriptions for everything, and that's it. You let the model figure out how to auth, chain calls, process data in between, format it for viewing, etc. There's absolutely zero glue code.

New AI bombs are dropping daily these days 🤯 And it's just the beginning. Google Bard Adobe Firefly Canva new AI Microsoft Loop Bing image Creator Instruct-NeRF2NeRF Ubisoft's new AI tool Runway new Text-to-video AI Bill Gates "Age of AI has Begun" Come and see 🧵👇