Chris T. Armstrong

Behold, dear humans, the wonderful video and voiceover artistry by the great and powerful @ani7sh and @meena_jain This video combines quotations from the opening and closing paragraphs from my book, Even God Herself. youtu.be/lVSg89RVgAU?si…

Today, we’re launching Gemma 4, our most intelligent open models to date. Built with the same breakthrough technology as Gemini 3, Gemma 4 brings advanced reasoning to your personal hardware and devices. Here’s what Gemma 4 unlocks for developers: — Intelligence-per-parameter: Our 31B (Dense) and 26B (MoE) models deliver state-of-the-art performance for their size, outcompeting models 20x their size on @arena — Commercial flexibility: Released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license for complete developer flexibility and digital sovereignty — Agentic workflows: Native support for function-calling and structured JSON output allows you to build reliable, autonomous agents — Multimodal edge AI: The E2B and E4B models bring native vision, audio, and low latency to mobile and IoT devices — Long-context reasoning: Up to 256K context windows allow you to process entire repositories or large documents in a single prompt Whether you're building global applications in 140+ languages or local-first AI code assistants, Gemma 4 is built to be your foundation. Explore in @GoogleAIStudio or download the weights on @HuggingFace, @Kaggle, and @Ollama.

This looks, uh, pretty relevant to (eventually) creating whole brain emulations from pure structural data

“When you haven’t heard someone talk for four years, the thought that they might be able to talk again was mind blowing."

The philosphers are throwing in the towel. Talk by David J. Chalmers. arxiv.org/abs/2303.07103 Within a decade, we may have robust systems with senses, embodiment, world models and self-models, recurrent processing, global workspace, and unified goals. They will be conscious.

This is VERY interesting!

And I’m often called an optimist, although I tend to move away from that label because what I see my message is, is not so much we should look on the bright side, but rather just be aware of facts, such as that life expectancy has more than doubled, extreme poverty has been reduced from 90% of humanity to 10% of humanity, and deaths in wars are down. The fact that things have gotten better, though not perfect, does lead to some optimism—namely, if our ancestors did it and it kind of worked, sort of, better than not, then it’s not romantic, it’s not foolish, it’s not utopian to try to make things better still. (From @singforscience with José González. Link below.)

Join our Memory Decoding Journal Club: “Prediction of future input explains lateral connectivity in primary visual cortex” (Klavinskis-Whiting et al.) w/ Dr. Kenneth Hayworth — Tue, Mar 31, 3pm PT. meet.google.com/udr-jcdc-vkp #neuroscience #vision #computationalneuroscience

73 years ago Today, Dr. Jonas Salk went on CBS radio to announce a new vaccine to immunize people against polio. He had worked for 3 years to develop the vaccine, which worked and resulted in the official elimination of the disease from the U.S. in 1979

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is our highest quality audio & voice model yet - and a big leap towards building next-gen voice-first agents. Lower latency, better precision, more natural interactions... try it now with Gemini Live in the @GeminiApp or build with it in @GoogleAIStudio!

AI is disruptive and poses dangers, but let's be clear what they are; analogies to human megalomania are misleading, notes Maarten Boudry @mboudry: Why HAL 9000 Feared Death (and Real AIs Don’t) open.substack.com/pub/maartenbou…

🎙️ New episode of Prosthetic Gods Ep. 38 – Humanoid Robots What happens when AI doesn’t just speak—but walks into your home? Nir & @citizencyborg explore the ethical risks of humanoid robots.

we're getting there (end of cancer) "A technique that transforms immune cells into cancer seeking bloodhounds may overcome a roadblock that has hampered immunotherapy for solid tumors, according to a new study by Stanford Medicine researchers."

Americans need to know which officials traded stocks before Trump posted about Iran last night.

One person, billion dollar businesses are coming. Abundance is coming, AI will bring it. People are waking up.

New framework helps artificial intelligence systems admit uncertainty and work as collaborative coaches rather than authoritative oracles.

Excited to partner with Agile Robots! Looking forward to seeing our models being deployed through Agile Robots incredible platform to help solve some of the most complex industrial challenges

We're studying cubic surfaces at @GoogleDeepMind! Our first paper, among other things, resolves a 54-year-old arithmetic geometry question of Manin's; one attempted by Swinnerton-Dyer and the first author through the decades. A 🧵 about X³ + Y³ + Z³ + ζ₃T³ = 0 and AI for math:

Robin Hanson - Futarchy: Competent Governance Soon?! Robin Hanson on FUTARCHY: can prediction markets make governance competent? “Vote on values, bet on beliefs.” In futarchy, citizens/politicians choose the goals (the metric), while prediction markets help...MORE @robinhanson

Angela Livingstone - Can AI Replace Human Therapists? Can our research methods distinguish between a trained therapist and a friendly dog? Angela Livingstone on AI in psychotherapy. youtube.com/shorts/ZD-H1R9… @lev_lafayette

“Most office jobs make no meaningful contribution to the world. The majority of the modern white-collar workforce is sleepwalking through tasks they know are bullshit, performing productivity for an audience of other performers, inside institutions that exist primarily to perpetuate themselves.” Savage… 😳 aestero.xyz/p/let-ai-have-…