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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

2] In Part 1 of this series I discussed how artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced to the point where it creates new data for analysis, abstracts the insights from the synthetic data and takes on much of the cognitive role previously reserved for humans. Creativity Most of us have never taken a course in creativity and few have studied it.

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Heartbeat

JANUARY 3, 2024

The 21st century has become a pivotal moment for humanity that demands innovation, collaboration, and transformative action. But can ML also be the game-changer in our fight against climate change? Can algorithms, neural networks, and data analytics offer tangible solutions to mitigate the climate crisis?

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Cold Takes

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I’ve been writing about tangible things we can do today to help the most important century go well. Previously, I wrote about helpful messages to spread and how to help via full-time work. This piece is about what major AI companies can do (and not do) to be helpful.

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ML Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

How can you tell whether your shop assistant is a person or a robot? The most significant innovation in AI these recent years, smart chatbots, personal assistants, are only a glimpse of what the future holds. During 2017’s Double 11 shopping festival, AliMe successfully responded to 9.04

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Cold Takes

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Let’s say you’re convinced that AI could make this the most important century of all time for humanity. What can you do to help things go well instead of poorly? I expect a lot to change in the future, including a general increase in the number of helpful jobs available.

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Cold Takes

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But while I think misalignment risk is serious and presents major challenges, I don’t agree with sentiments 1 along the lines of “We haven’t figured out how to align an AI, so if transformative AI comes soon, we’re doomed.” Perhaps the eight-year-old is a mind-reader, or even a young Professor X.)

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Cold Takes

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I discussed why it could be hard to build AI systems without this risk and how it might be doable. The “AI alignment problem” refers 1 to a technical problem: how can we design a powerful AI system that behaves as intended, rather than forming its own dangerous aims ? might do in order to prevent catastrophe.

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Snorkel AI

OCTOBER 12, 2023

You can find all of them collected in a playlist here , or scroll down for an embedded version of each, along with a description. How can we convert these capabilities into reliable, production-grade applications? Data-Driven Government: A Fireside Chat with the Former U.S.

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Snorkel AI

OCTOBER 12, 2023

You can find all of them collected in a playlist here , or scroll down for an embedded version of each, along with a description. How can we convert these capabilities into reliable, production-grade applications? Data-Driven Government: A Fireside Chat with the Former U.S.

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Cold Takes

JANUARY 13, 2023

This post will lay out a couple of stylized stories about how, if transformative AI is developed relatively soon, this could result in global catastrophe. (By By “transformative AI,” I mean AI powerful and capable enough to bring about the sort of world-changing consequences I write about in my most important century series.)

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Cold Takes

JUNE 9, 2022

I've been working on a new series of posts about the most important century. The original series focused on why and how this could be the most important century for humanity. But it had relatively little to say about what we can do today to improve the odds of things going well.

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Heartbeat

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How to Create and Implement Custom Tools in LangChain Photo by Todd Quackenbush on Unsplash Preliminaries %%capture !pip You can define tools that perform complex calculations, interact with external APIs, manipulate data uniquely, or integrate with other systems. For example, suppose you are working in the finance industry.

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AI Impacts

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Some people involved in the debate about slowing or pausing AI seem to think that successfully stopping AI progress over the long term would likely lead to death or dystopia: Either we figure out how to make AGI go well or we wait for the asteroid to hit. - This is a plausible future for AI. 1 This would probably be very surprising.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

At the end of 2023, a survey conducted by the IBM® Institute for Business Value (IBV) found that respondents believe government leaders often overestimate the public’s trust in them. The IBV surveyed a diverse group of more than 13,000 adults across nine countries including the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and Japan.

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Cold Takes

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

If we move forward incautiously and ambitiously with such training, and if it gets us all the way to very powerful AI systems, then such systems will likely end up aiming for certain states of the world (analogously to how a chess-playing AI aims for checkmate). Even if they’re built and deployed with good intentions.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The use of clean energy and renewable energy resources—such as solar, wind and hydropower—originates in early human history; how the world has harnessed power from these resources to meet its energy needs has evolved over time. Renewable energy is critical to combatting climate change and global warming.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

If this ends up being the most important century due to advanced AI, what are the key factors in whether things go well or poorly? The relevant kind of AI looks like it will be developed this century - making this century the one that will initiate, and have the opportunity to shape, a future galaxy-wide civilization.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

To better understand how likely hardware overhang would be, I tried to find examples of hardware-overhang-like-things for other technologies. Overhang for Other Technologies Many technologies have an extremely important input - like GPUs/TPUs for AI, or engines for vehicles, or steel for large structures.

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