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Matthew Hutson on technologists' warnings about the dangers of the so-called singularity, and the question of whether anything can be done to prevent it.
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Artificial intelligence has made incredible progress in the last decade, but in one crucial aspect, it still lags behind the theoretical computer science of the 1990s: namely, there is no essay describing five potential worlds that we could live in and giving each one of them whimsical names. In other words, no one has done...
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Suffering risks, or s-risks, are "risks of events that bring about suffering in cosmically significant amounts" (Althaus and Gloor 2016).1 This article will discuss why the reduction of s-risks could be a candidate for a top priority among altruistic causes aimed at influencing the long-term future. The number of sentient beings in the future might be astronomical, and certain cultural, evolutionary, and technological forces could cause many of these beings to have lives dominated by severe suffering. S-...
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Good things to understand when building AI applications: artificial neural networks, LLMs, parameters, embeddings, GPTs, and hallucinations.
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