Tag: ai
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An awful personal prophecy is coming true. Way back in 2019, when AI was still a relatively niche topic, and only the primitive GPT-2 had been released, I predicted the… more ›
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Fin Moorhouse Will MacAskill We thank Max Dalton, Rose Hadshar, Lizka Vaintrob, Tom Davidson, Lukas Finnveden, Phil Trammell, Eric Drexler, and Dan Williams for their comments on earlier drafts. https://www.forethought.org/research/preparing-for-the-intelligence-explosion?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email more ›
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tl;dr: AI systems seem like things which appear seductively like autonomous meaning-making entities but are actually tools which can’t make meaning on their own (for now). Understanding this seductive mirage… more ›
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You could be a Surrealist or a Futurist or a Post-Impressionist or a Cubist. You could align yourself with Art Deco or Dada or Bauhaus or Fauvism. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-new-aesthetics-of-slop more ›
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For most of history, hiring a dozen PhDs meant a massive budget and months of lead time. Today, a few keystrokes in a chatbot summon that brainpower in seconds. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/how-ai-reasoning-models-will-change-companies-and-the-economy more ›
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Tommy Robinson tweets an image of soldiers walking into the ocean on D-Day. Britain First’s co-leader produces imagery of Muslim men laughing at sad white girls on public transport. https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/ more ›
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An AI development framework characterized by shifts between deterministic and probabilistic approaches in computing. It outlines four stages: We will analyze the historical accuracy of this framework, its logical coherence,… more ›
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There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it. It is not the end of programming. It… more ›