which was your favorite once-in-a-generation/decade crisis - the one of 2020, 2021, 2022, or 2023?

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This image from today's IPCC synthesis report is brutal. The existing policy trajectory represents a profound failure of our governments, and of our international political system. We need much more aggressive mitigation and much stronger international cooperation.

I gave chat GPT-4 $100 That's all. No budget, no plan, I just want to start a good relationship with our future overlord.

So this “AI founder” experiment is kind of blowing my mind. I set an objective, and say “your first task is to create your next task”. It then continues to generate and reprioritize its own task list as it executes them one by one. Only hooked up to search now. Kinda scary.

An unaligned version of GPT-5 will be available to a select number of humans for 6+ months before the general public knows about it. Let that sink in.

With AI poised to impact every corner of human productivity, maybe now would be a good time to revisit that whole UBI thing. Crazy idea.

Announcing StableLM❗ We’re releasing the first of our large language models, starting with 3B and 7B param models, with 15-65B to follow. Our LLMs are released under CC BY-SA license. We’re also releasing RLHF-tuned models for research use. Read more→ stability.ai/blog/stability…

AI is going to enable the creation and enforcement of laws 1000x as complex as we have today. This is mostly a good thing.

OpenAI’s dirty little secret is that GPTs are reaching their limits and it doesn’t know what to do next.

Mark my tweet. Record labels will only call it fraud until they figure out how they can sell you a brand new Michael Jackson AI generated album

“Humans are not intelligent, nor are they fully self-aware. They are simply very efficient in resource appropriation and exploitation. This is not intelligence by any measure, but a type of skill. Skills become outdated. Intelligence doesn’t” #amwriting #ClimateCrisis

Researchers pittted ChatGPT against genuine doctors, using actual patient questions. ChatGPT was more accurate and more empathetic. By a lot. HT Adam Cifu jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

STOP “DATING” STOP “NETWORKING” STOP “LOOKING FOR FRIENDS” JUST LITERALLY GO PLACES WHERE PPL INTERACT & SEE WHO YOU VIBE WITH REGARDLESS OF WHAT CATEGORY THEY FIT IN

I don't think people understand how weird things are about to get...

I know AI is cool as fuck, like really fucking cool. But… it’s all looking a bit too similar no?

LAN party in the middle of an interstate highway