Author: Advanced AI Editor
Three years ago, suggesting AI was “sentient” was one way to get fired in the tech world. Now, tech companies are more open to having that conversation.This week, AI startup Anthropic launched a new research initiative to explore whether models might one day experience “consciousness,” while a scientist at Google DeepMind described today’s models as “exotic mind-like entities.”It’s a sign of how much AI has advanced since 2022, when Blake Lemoine was fired from his job as a Google engineer after claiming the company’s chatbot, LaMDA, had become sentient. Lemoine said the system feared being shut off and described itself…
Move over, PayPal mafia: There’s a new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. Its meteoric rise to a $300 billion valuation has spurred many employees to leave the AI giant to create startups of their own. The hype around OpenAI is so high that some of these startups, like Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence and Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, have been able to raise billions of dollars without even launching a product. But there are lots of other startups in the OpenAI mafia ecosystem. These range from…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology astronomers have discovered a planet roughly 140 light-years from Earth — but it’s quickly disintegrating.The planet, which scientists have tagged as BD+05 4868 Ab, is located so close to the sun that it completes a full orbit every 30.5 hours, according to MIT News. As a result, it’s likely covered in magma, causing the planet to evaporate and shed the equivalent of one Mount Everest’s worth of surface materials during every orbit. The astronomers estimate the planet may disintegrate fully within the next 1 to 2 million years.Debris trails behind the planet in a comet-like fashion,…
But the topline figures obscure a fragmented regulatory approach The government wants the UK to provide an agile, adaptive environment for AI developers. Is the existing regulatory framework up to it? Following on from yesterday’s coverage in Computing of Labour Party proposals to manage and regulate AI technology development, the government yesterday set out it’s approach in response to the consultation it published last March. Last years’ white paper focused on an agile, pro-innovation approach to AI regulation. The government made clear that it wanted to regulate with a light touch. A crucial aspect of this light touch regulation was…
#deeplearning #backpropagation #simulation More and more systems are made differentiable, which means that accurate gradients of these systems’ dynamics can be computed exactly. While this development has led to a lot of advances, there are also distinct situations where backpropagation can be a very bad idea. This paper characterizes a few such systems in the domain of iterated dynamical systems, often including some source of stochasticity, resulting in chaotic behavior. In these systems, it is often better to use black-box estimators for gradients than computing them exactly. OUTLINE: 0:00 – Foreword 1:15 – Intro & Overview 3:40 – Backpropagation through…
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Lucy Dacuscredit: Shervin Lainez It’s remarkable how Lucy Dacus’ career trajectory has changed in almost a decade. In June 2016, the same year she released her debut LP No Burden, the indie singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia, played a very modest-sized stage at Rough Trade NYC in Brooklyn, New York. Afterward, with each subsequent record and steady touring, Dacus built up critical acclaim for her exquisite alto singing and heartfelt music about the complicated and tender moments of love and relationships. Fast forward to the present, and Dacus’ fame has grown exponentially as a member of the popular supergroup boygenius (with…
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Hado Van Hasselt, Research Scientist, discusses function approximation and deep reinforcement learning as part of the Advanced Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning Lectures. source
Join us for the opening keynote from OpenAI DevDay — OpenAI’s first developer conference. We’re gathering developers from around the world for an in-person day of programming to learn about the latest AI advancements and explore what lies ahead. New models and developer products announced at DevDay: Introducing GPTs: source