Statement from Dario Amodei on the Paris AI Action Summit \ Anthropic
(The degree of transparency is tricky because it is supposed to maintain privacy at the individual grain, but make operations obvious at the government altitude. Someone also needs an ability for quick response when results are off kilter. It is not completely automated like a real factory. Or open and closed cases. Another issue may be that everything gets over classified again to keep it out of the hands of meddling execs.)
Can AI help DOGE slash government budgets? It’s complex.
(Really interesting since the policy layer is separate from the mechanics and is subject to change upon any election. If it reversed a lot, then that sweeps out participants who could not abandon their ethics. Good way to achieve changing of the guard, but havoc on bureaucracies, including the branches of government. One issue is whether they use multiple competing models to balance power.)
EU Pledges $200 Billion in AI Spending in Bid to Catch Up With U.S., China
(It was reported a couple of months ago that large models could replicate themselves, so scaling up is not infeasible. But, have to avoid shades of the Canadian grid outage when the routers were upgraded a few decades back before the internet and web were stabilized. )
Gary Marcus on X: "If ELIZA had been released in the current environment, people would have been arguing about whether it was AGI and investing billions in keyword matching." / X
(Back in the day, there was an effort to steer MIS into Expert Systems and a LISP boom. Hardware chimed in with the connection machine, internet and PC. Followed by the big chill. During which Machine Learning forged on, luckily. Good to recall why they originally invented Email. Just the FAQs.)
Max Tegmark on X: "This may be the first time ever that I strongly disagree with your assessment. I expect AGI to quickly lead to ASI and, if you or anyone else has a convincing plan for how not to lose control over it, I challenge you to post it here for public scrutiny. I’ve read and heard many" / X
(Flashback to deriving posthumanism from tech convergence. Is StarGate really a portal? Are there Zeno states? PoSTEMic perhaps. Is nothing SAC RED? "Equo ne credite, Teucri." Cue final chorale.)
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"And 10x analysts won’t just use generative AI to edit their reports. They might write code to orchestrate a suite of AI agents to do deep research into the products, markets, and companies, and thereby derive far more valuable conclusions than someone who does research the traditional way."