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Why Google Is Behind in the AI Race
WSJ explains why Google is behind in the AI race. Especially Demi's Hababbis safety concerns played a role if you watch his interviews. Now Google is dropping this perspective as it is causing insane revenue loss.
March 28
WSJ explains why Google is behind in the AI race. Especially Demi's Hababbis safety concerns played a role if you watch his interviews. Now Google is dropping this perspective as it is causing insane revenue loss.
Remembering Dr. Gordon Moore
Dr. Gordon Moore (94) died last week. He was a computing visionary, co-founder of chipmaker Intel and namesake of the famous “Moore’s Law”. I got to interview him in 2014. A memorable moment in multiple ways! 🙏
March 27
Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool (BBC News)
Omdenken! De warmte van een bescheiden datacenter houdt dit Britse zwembad meer dan de helft van de tijd op een comfy 30C. 😎
March 19
Lex Fridman and Demis Hassabis: DeepMind - AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299
All encompassing interview making you think deeply about AI and the implications + No batter. Full on in depth conversation from min 1 until the end + They both use understandable vocabulary, you don't have to have programming/AI knowledge to follow. + Around the two hour mark, Demis explains why he wouldn't want to let AI lose on the world yet. This was recorded just before openAI let ChatGPT loose on the world.
March 18
Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness: How Queer Is The Animal Kingdom? with Eliot Schrefer
Voor eens en voor altijd een bewijs dat queer behavior niet ‘onnatuurlijk’ is. En hoe ideëen uit de Kerk ook leidend waren (/zijn?) in de wetenschap. Met aanstekelijk enthousiasme van Jonathan.
March 12
The Waluigi Effect (mega-post) - LessWrong (post on the workings and bias in chatgpt)
This is one of the most interesting things things I've read on lange language models like ChatGPT. And also explains the need for human oversight and that it might look intelligent but actually sometimes is very far from that. It's an exploration into how large language models (e.g., ChatGPT) create emergent 'personas', and how+why they often collapse into 'evil' versions of those personas (e.g., Microsoft Sydney going weird and creepy). The premise is that all training content is a form of storytelling, and all stories inherently imply the 'evil version' ("if you discover that a country has legislation against motorbike gangs, that will increase your expectation that the town has motorbike gangs. GPT-4 will make the same inference").
March 8
Orphan Black
Loved this series! They thought of the plot very well and you keep watching. Very thrilling to watch.
March 8
The End of Organizing
A fantastic piece by Dan Shipper that talks about the struggles involved with organizing your notes using current organizational systems and software, and how he believes that by using AI, we can change all of that.
February 27
I made an AI clone of myself (VICE)
Je hebt ze vast wel op social media voorbij zien komen: AI-gegenereerde kloons die AI-gegenereerde teksten voorlezen. Wat komt er bij kijken om zo’n kloon te maken? Deze journalist van Vice accepteert een uitnodiging van het Amerikaanse bedrijf Synthesia om er achter te komen.
February 26
De Ongelooflijke Podcast
Een podcast dat zingeving en wetenschap verbindt. Wouter van Noort (NRC journalist) volg ik al enige tijd. Hij is nu te gast bij de NPOradio1 podcast “de ongelooflijke podcast”. Religie, spiritualiteit, wetenschap wordt besproken. Als innovator een must listen/read. Nieuwe inzichten, nieuwe perspectieven, future thinking etc. Quote van Wouter is: “De ontovering van de wetenschap”.
February 26