Technology is changing the world. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing, space exploration — it is all happening now.
Bill Gates On AI
Bill Gates said the shift into the AI era will rank among the most turbulent periods in human history and that no one has produced a credible plan for managing it.
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OpenAI says it cracked 90-year-old maths problem in 88 hours.
OpenAI says it has found a solution to a decades-old advanced maths problem in a matter of hours using a new artificial intelligence (AI) model and thousands of AI bots.
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Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment
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Read moreAutomating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4
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Read moreAI systems are about to start building themselves.
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Read moreAI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems
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Read moreReward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing
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Read moreSuperpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI
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Read moreOpen vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan
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Read moreThe bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker
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Read moreSelf-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity
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Read more23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing
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Read moreScience AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimism
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Read moreNo rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye
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Read moreWhy Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI
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Read moreAI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment
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Read moreReckoning with the future; and a singularity story
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Artificial Intelligence (Neural Networks) - The Beginning of a New Era
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude - these names are already widely known. AI systems (neural networks) are becoming more powerful, and our everyday life is changing rapidly. But what does this mean for our future?
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