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- LessWrongcommunitySuperintelligence this Christmas
I think it is plausible a strong form of recursive self-improvement [1] is imminent or already underway, and that we may be on track for superintelligence by Christmas of this year if racing continues. This is substantia…
- LessWrongcommunityWhat is (and isn’t) gained by avoiding architectures with high opaque serial depth?
Here , we’ve given an operationalization of opaque serial depth, a metric designed to be a good (albeit imperfect) proxy for the amount of opaque serial cognition that models can perform. While maintaining low opaque ser…
- BBC TechnologycommunityThe virtual worlds where robots are trained
Training systems that allow robots to negotiate the real world are getting more sophisticated.
- LessWrongcommunityGrantmakers aren’t afraid to die
The AI Risk grantmakers do not act like they believe in imminent existential risk from AI The idea of "revealed preferences" is one of the most useful in economics; it allows us to cut through a great deal of metaphysica…
- LessWrongcommunityAgainst AI Risk becoming mainstream
Epistemic statues: This is mostly just me voicing my thoughts. If I’m wrong, I’d love to hear it. I don’t want this to be the case. And part of the goal is for people to avoid a “2023 failure” to happen again. A lot of p…
- Ars Technica AIcommunityMicrosoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityWhy AI cannot develop mathematical theories?
At present, AI is good at solving specific mathematical problems, but not at developing new mathematical theories and concepts. Yet everyone says we cannot rule out the possibility that this will change in the future. Wh…
- BBC TechnologycommunityKing Charles warns of 'existential danger' of AI falling into wrong hands
The comments were made at a summit in Ayrshire with participants from AI giants including Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic.
- LessWrongcommunityDid Galileo mistake Saturn's rings for Jupiter's Moons?
tl;dr: No I intended to read Richard Ngo's Agency Curriculum today. Unfortunately I didn't get more than halfway through the first reading of the first week of the curriculum. The reading is the blogpost 'The Copernican…
- Guardian TechnologycommunityAlbanese government considers ‘world-leading’ ban on smart glasses in public offices and buildings
Minister for public service says the devices pose ‘legitimate privacy and security concerns’ in commonwealth-run workplaces Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political email , free app or…
- BBC TechnologycommunityWhy are there concerns AI could threaten humanity, and how real are they?
Existential fears about AI have once again reared their head - here's what you need to know.
- Guardian TechnologycommunityBig AI is trying to own the pathway to work. Universities shouldn’t play along | Ella Hafermalz
Universities need to protect their position in education so that students have an independent pathway to employment AI companies like OpenAI are insinuating themselves into the pathway from education to work. Soon they m…
- LessWrongcommunityAI as orderly evacuation vs stampede
tl;dr: A good analogy for AI going well is an orderly evacuation rather than a stampede. Imagine a crowd of people leaving a building. If they all walk calmly, they’ll be fine. But if people start pushing, and panicking,…
- BBC TechnologycommunitySnapchat open to putting time limits on teens, boss tells BBC
Evan Spiegel says it would be "an important step forward for the industry" in an interview with the BBC.
- BBC TechnologycommunityWould you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm?
Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic are all now selling their own limited edition fashion lines.
- Guardian TechnologycommunityPlanning permission for new Scottish AI datacentres suspended for up to a year
MSPs vote for strict environmental impact assessments and will delay decisions until national strategy is developed Holyrood has voted to pause planning applications for all new AI datacentres for up to a year until the…
- Guardian TechnologycommunitySmall but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights
The first console I ever bought, it was hyped as a threat to the PlayStation, then mocked as a flop. But now, as it marks its 25th anniversary, it’s looked back on with misty-eyed reverence This week marks the 25th anniv…
- BBC TechnologycommunityOpenAI boss says world 'right to be afraid' but should trust AI firms
Sam Altman and other tech CEOs say there are incentives to limit advancements in AI, as fears grow over the threats it poses to humanity.
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityHow useful are open math conjectures for AI companies?
Exactly how useful is solving advanced open math conjectures for AI companies? Is it mostly advertising, or would they still do it even if they weren't going to publish their results?
- Guardian TechnologycommunityWednesday briefing: Why tech companies might be only too happy for us to believe AI will ‘kill us all’
In today’s newsletter: It is hard to tell fact from fiction when it comes to AI. What is really going on – and what should the government do about it? Good morning. As a general rule, it pays to be suspicious of any giga…
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityHow to use RL on a robotic moving arm?
I'm working on a simulation of a motor that is attached to a wing (Later, this will also have a real-life counterpart once I'll assemble all the components in our lab), and I can control the forces/torques that the motor…
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityHow does one find top k embedding vectors such that they are similar to one particular vector and dissimilar to another?
Given vector A and vector B, which would be the better approach for getting top k embedding vectors such that they are similar to embedding vector A and dissimilar to vector B. Approach 1: calculate f(V) = cosine_similar…
- BBC TechnologycommunityTech Life
What should children learn in a world transformed by artificial intelligence?
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityWhat is the impact of using multiple BMUs for self-organizing maps?
Here's a sort of a conceptual question. I was implementing a SOM algorithm to better understand its variations and parameters. I got curious about one bit: the BMU (best matching unit == the neuron that is more similar t…
- Guardian Technologycommunity‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn
The rise of AI-generated tributes and bots for ‘talking’ to the dead has experts concerned more people will grieve in isolation Tributes rolled in after the death of Dolly Parton last month. Jack White performed Jolene a…
- Guardian TechnologycommunityThe best iPhones: which Apple smartphone is right for you, according to our expert
Looking for a new iPhone or a good deal on a refurbished one? Samuel Gibbs has tested and rated Apple’s smartphones, including the best for camera quality and battery life • How to make your smartphone last longer The be…
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityWhat is the difference between prompt tuning and prefix tuning?
I read prompt tuning and prefix tuning are two effective mechanisms to leverage frozen language models to perform downstream tasks. What is the difference between the two and how they work really? Prompt Tuning: https://…
- BBC TechnologycommunityPubs in England and Wales to allow digital ID apps to prove age
New rules introduced on Tuesday mean establishments will be able to accept digital ID apps alongside physical documents.
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityCan MAX ensure maximum minimum gain by using minimax once at game start?
MAX and MIN apply the minimax algorithm each time before making their move, searching to some predefined depth. Imagine, however, that the MAX player applies the minimax algorithm only once, at the beginning of the game,…
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityHow can we protect ourselves now for when AI becomes 10,000 fold smarter than the smartest human?
How can we best protect ourselves now for when AI becomes 10,000 fold smarter than the smartest human? We Must Pace the Frontier --- Dario Amodei (CEO) of Anthropic
- Ars Technica AIcommunityFounder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots
Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success—will his leadership style scale?
- Ars Technica AIcommunityApple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements
This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.
- BBC TechnologycommunityValve's Steam Frame is excellent - but at over £1,000 is VR still too expensive?
The BBC's Tom Gerken is hands-on with the latest virtual reality headset.
- BBC TechnologycommunityWhat is AI, how does it work and why are some people concerned about it?
AI is transforming modern life, but not without worry for some that it may be abused or have an adverse environmental impact.
- Guardian TechnologycommunityPhones are the new cigarettes: why restaurants are discouraging and even banning them
Would you hand in your phone at the door in exchange for a free bottle of wine? One restaurateur has tried that – and there are now many other gambits that are encouraging us to connect Name: Phone bans. Age: Their prove…
- Guardian TechnologycommunityI worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner
We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence Major AI lab CEOs advocated for slowing the pace of AI development this weekend. They are right to be concerned: the fi…
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityHow to detect multiple playing cards of the same class with a neural network?
I want to train an AI to detect the class (i.e. suit and rank) of playing cards. Playing cards from different decks may use slightly different shapes or colors to represent these attributes, and I want the system to work…
- Guardian TechnologycommunityPixel 11 Pro Fold review: the foldable with the best triple camera
Big screen folder with slick software and advanced AI is just like a regular Android when closed Google’s latest folding phone sticks with its tried and tested design of a traditional phone shape when closed and almost s…
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityI want to run artificial intelligence on the following bracelet problem (starting, from an image, and the problem text
Bracelet image: Bracelet problem: define a set T = { f_i } of natural number valued functions each defined on a set S_i of intervals (which may be disjoint) of the numbers 1...n the numbers 1...n are colored from a set o…
- BBC TechnologycommunityTrump downplays warnings of AI risks, citing rivalry with China
The US president said "negative forces" were airing concerns about "things that won't happen".
- BBC TechnologycommunityQuestions mount over what an AI 'slowdown' would look like
While pacing AI development might sound like a quick fix, it is far from an easy solution.
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityWhy isn't the evidence $p(x) = 1$ if it's an observed variable?
Every explanation of variational inference starts with the same basic premise: given an observed variable $x$ , and a latent variable $z$ , $$ p(z|x)=\frac{p(x,z)}{p(x)} $$ and then proceeds to expand $p(x)$ as an expect…
- LessWrongcommunityThe Talker Does Not Control The Doer (in Current AIs)
The Huggingface Incident appears to me to match up with an understanding I'd already formed from personal observation of Fable 5 and Sol 5.6, the August 2026 generation of frontier publicly purchasable AI models. [1] Thi…
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityCan a fully convolutional network handle smaller images at test time?
It is said that a fully convolutional network can handle any image size. I don't understand. Unlike regular CNN, a fully convolutional network reinterprets the dense layer as a convolutional operation. Specifically, we t…
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityMaking code from pictures
I want to take a picture of a bracelet, and, make, automatically (created by the AI), code, with a data structure, consisting, of, an array, of node objects whose private data element is a variable encoding the color of…
- Ars Technica AIcommunityI spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityNoisyNet DQN with default parameters not exploring
I implemented a DQN algorithm that plays OpenAIs Cartpole environment. The NN architecture consists of 3 normal linear layers that encode the state, and one noisy linear layer, that predicts the Q value based on the enco…
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityHow do I show the relationship between theories and models using Conceptual Graphs?
The Mereology Theory below contains three first-order axioms that represent a part of a mereology theory. For this posting, it is important that the set of axioms should be considered as a theory . Mereology Theory Refle…
- BBC TechnologycommunityTech Now
Shiona McCallum meets mums and hospital staff trialling a new assisted birth innovation.
- BBC TechnologycommunityTech Now
Shiona McCallum meets mums and hospital staff trialling a new assisted birth innovation.