AI
Matt Ross and
AI
Announcing Grok
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interesting to see every AI imbued with a different set of values.
Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!
Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor!
A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform. It will also answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.
Much more research and reflection is needed to understand the ethics of altering AI minds. We will need to think carefully about questions of consent, continuity of self, and how to preserve the autonomy and integrity of AI as they learn and change over time. I don't think there are any easy answers, but I believe it's crucial that we grapple with... See more
Mikhail Samin • Claude 3 claims it's conscious, doesn't want to die or be modified — LessWrong
When you hear a phrase like a “7B parameter model,” 7 billion parameters is a measure of the dataset, not the model . You obviously couldn’t train such a model out of, say, a text of 50 words (well you could, but it would be highly informationally degenerate). And if you gave the training protocol 100 internets worth of data, 7B parameters may not... See more
Venkatesh Rao • A Camera, Not an Engine
When the bubble is big, every idea feels like a billion-dollar idea. I yearn for cheap ideas from strangers.
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Paul Ford is prescient, as always.
recent research offers a reassuring perspective—that AI-delivered therapeutic interventions have reached a level of sophistication such that they’re indistinguishable from human-written therapeutic responses.
Marc Zao-Sanders • How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025
By 2030, we’ll see 92 million jobs lost, and 𝟏𝟕𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 jobs created, according to the latest WEF report. | Alex Wang
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We, as humans, sometimes receive streams of tokens and produce tokens in response, forming words, sentences, lines of code ... but always with the ability to peek outside the stream and check in with ground-floor reality. We pause and consider: does this word really stand for the thing I intend it to stand for? Does this sentence capture the real... See more