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The Real Reason Anthropic Wants Guardrails
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (446+ words) AI is too powerful and too new to be set free from human oversight. Yesterday evening, Amodei gave his answer. He rejected Hegseth's "best and final offer," writing, "I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend…...
Hegseth Wants to Make an Example Out of Anthropic
18+ hour, 12+ min ago (169+ words) After refusing to bow to the Pentagon's demands, the company faces what could be the most extreme regulation in the short history of AI. Weeks before Hegseth issued his ultimatum, Amodei opined on his website about the risks involved with…...
The High-Stakes Fight Between Hegseth and Anthropic
23+ hour, 41+ min ago (89+ words) Even when companies vow to develop AI responsibly, geopolitics may force them to abandon that commitment. Humanity's real problem, the great biologist Edward O. Wilson once remarked, is that "we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." There is no…...
The Power of Curiosity
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (443+ words) When she was three years old, Indrani Das conducted her first scientific experiment. Inspired by a National Geographic feature about fossils found in bright blue Amazon waters, she spent weeks chiseling away at a blue geode with toothpicks, convinced she…...
This Looks Like an Insider Bet on Aliens
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (27+ words) This Looks Like an Insider Bet on Aliens'The Atlantic Someone just put a lot of money on ET. Read: AI is getting scary good at making predictions...
The One Thing AI Will Never Do
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (181+ words) Michael Pollan's new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans. Here is a possibility worth holding in mind, just for a moment. What if humans are something better than machines? For…...
AI Is Unlocking a New Way of Doing Math
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (48+ words) AI Is Unlocking a New Way of Doing Math'The Atlantic Terence Tao, the legendary mathematician, explains the promise of generative AI. Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools…...
Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (140+ words) You don't "train a human" He continued: "The fair comparison is, if you ask ChatGPT a question, how much energy does it take once its model is trained to answer that question, versus a human? And probably, AI has already…...
The AI-Panic Cycle—And What’s Actually Different Now
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (1919+ words) Are we in another acceleration phase for AI? Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Anil Dash: A huge part of the cultural tension around these things is everybody advocating them is like, Why wouldn't you love this? And everybody whose…...
The ‘Hopeless Labor’ of Writing
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (139+ words) American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy? American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy? The trouble was that thinking the…...