Making the Inevitable Obvious
The next stage in the development of AIs is to give them spatial intelligence. Our current, smartest AIs are masters of words. They have been trained on zillions of words. Their education consists of the knowledge we have written down Continue reading
I visit China frequently. This is the best roundup of China s rise I ve read. A report by researchers identified almost twenty thousand scientists of Chinese descent who left America between 2010 and 2021. The Future, Made in China Flixels or Continue reading
In January 2019 I wrote out scores of prompts for thinking long term that I felt should inform the foundation I was later co-chair of, The Long Now Foundation. These axioms were only shared internally, but I feel they would Continue reading
Read this fantastic profile of Hans Morevac, and his correct prediction 40 years of AGI in 2028. Why he was both right and wrong. He Was Right About AI. What About the Fate of Mankind? Tokenomics are taking hold. The Continue reading
[For over a decade I have been talking about protopia, but I have never written out my description of it. What follows is my best case for this idea, which I first coined in 2011.] Protopia is a plausible, desirable Continue reading
Lately I’ve been asking myself: what might artificial intelligence be good for besides answering questions and writing code? My answer is the latent spaces within AIs themselves will become a new medium for creativity. I will first explain what I Continue reading
Wow! Unexpected results from Anthropic s experiments in exposing the inner thoughts of Claude. They call its unconscious a J-space. The short video they made is good place to start. A global workspace in language models
Someday real soon, most of us — starting with young adults — will carry an always-on AI. This agent will help us navigate our journeys, answer our questions, tutor and teach us new skills, remember people we have met before, Continue reading
A popular way to explain how current LLMs work is to say that all they do is predict the next most likely word in a sentence. From one perspective, this is correct. Trained on all human language, the LLMs distilled Continue reading
For as long as I remember, people have been arguing about whether machines could be intelligent or not. Many science fiction authors and fans — like myself — felt it was inevitable, only a matter of time. However there were Continue reading