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Import AI 351: How inevitable is AI?; Distributed shoggoths; ISO an Adam replacement
How much of the future of AI is overdetermined and how much do we have agency over?
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Jack Clark
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November 2023
Import AI 350: Neural architecture search at Facebook scale; hunting cancer with PANDA; European VCs launch a science lab
If you were able to build a large-scale computer in the 18th century, how would things be different?
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Jack Clark
Import AI 349: Distributed training breaks AI policy; turning GPT4 bad for $245; better weather forecasting through AI
How inevitable is the creation of very powerful AI technology?
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Jack Clark
Import AI 348: DeepMind defines AGI; the best free LLM is made in China; mind controlling robots
Over a long enough timescale, is the future of technology pre-determined, or something humans have real agency over?
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Jack Clark
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Import AI 347: NVIDIA speeds itself up with AI; AI policy is a political campaign; video morphing means reality collapse
World leaders are gathering to talk about AI - what do they intuit? And is it different to what we intuit?
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Jack Clark
October 2023
Import AI 346: Human-like meta-learning; a 3 trillion token dataset; spies VS AI
The intelligence services have woken up to AI
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Jack Clark
Import AI 345: Facebook uses AI to mindread; MuJoCo v3; Amazon adds bipedal robots to its warehouses
The fact increasingly powerful AI systems exhibit increasingly humanlike qualities suggests that humans may be simpler than they appear
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Jack Clark
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Import AI 344: Putting the world into a world model; automating software engineers; FlashDecoding
Most technologies take decades to significantly alter the world. How long for language models?
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Jack Clark
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Import AI 343: Humanlike AI; LLaMa 2 protests; the NSA's new AI center
To what extent is technological development an inevitability versus something people have agency over?
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Jack Clark
Import AI 342: Mistral dumps an LLM on BitTorrent; AMD vs NVIDIA; Sutton joins keen
At some point, Hinton will shift from being a contemporary figure to a historical one
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Jack Clark
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September 2023
Import AI 341: Neural nets can smell; technofeudalism via AI; China releases another solid open access model
What would happen to AI progress if an active learning technique that worked with transformers was published on arXiv tomorrow?
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Jack Clark
Import AI 340: Drone VS human (Drone wins); Adept's small but good AI model; "AI Succession"
What's the difference between AI and nanotechnology in terms of hype and adoption?
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Jack Clark
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