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  • High Risk, No Rules: Welcome To The Era Of Geopolitical "Anomie"

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  • Something I heard recently both surprised me, yet at the same time resonated with me. It was the view that the 21st century is being modeled in China's image where the 20th century was modeled on America. The US thought it would make China more like it, instead America has become more like China - transactional and authoritarian in its dealings with the world.

  • Hugging Face is open-sourcing the improved reasoning ability of OpenAI’s o1 model, that the latter expects to make money off.

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  • Hugging Face is open-sourcing the improved reasoning ability of OpenAI’s o1 model, that the latter expects to make money off.

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  • Just as the investor funded AI companies think they have the shallowest of moats, and a chance to build revenue, no - once again Open Source is snapping at their heels. Someone is going to blink first in this race, and I suspect it will be the investor funded AI companies.

  • DeepMind's Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games | TechCrunch

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  • The video game industry is a huge employer. It makes you wonder how much longer we will be saying that.

  • What could be “hot topics” in 2124?

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  • AGI, genetic editing of humans for starters. Advanced robotics, the discovery of alien life. Maybe another new paradigm in our understanding of the science and the universe on a par with Einstein's?

  • Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026

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  • They are not going up in China.

  • The disruption of labor by humanoid robots

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  • Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI- Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content

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  • The problem is feeding them crap will keep them low IQ. Most parents want the highest quality educational content instead.

  • Food delivery robot crashes into car, flees scene of accident

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  • with the safety flag happily waving...........fled the scene.

    Anthropomorphising much? Its like saying a toaster that broke down turned on you in a hissy fit.

  • Sam Altman’s Prediction: The Rise of a Billion-Dollar Solo Enterprise

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  • This idea seems economically illiterate. In a world where humans don't earn money, how do we have a stock market supporting these valuations?

  • Ultrasound Enables Remote 3-D Printing—Even in the Human Body: For the first time, researchers have used sound waves to 3-D print an object from a distance—even with a wall in the way.

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  • Maybe I'm paranoid, but why does my mind straight away go to all the nefarious ways this could be used. Creative criminals and intelligence agencies could find many uses for this technology when it matures.

  • Biohybrid microrobots could remove micro- and nano-plastics from aquatic environments

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  • They are made from a biological substrate with metal magnetic components. It means they are highly controllable in water tanks via magnetic fields. They won't be out in the wild.

  • OpenAI has revised its core values to make the focus on developing AGI its first priority.

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  • I think we’re going to have to pit AIs against one another in another web of complexity in order to reach AGI.

    I don't know if its going to be the route to AGI, but what you are describing is already happening.

    There's Microsoft’s AutoGen framework & OpenAI next month say they too will have AI Agents for Chat-GPT

  • OpenAI has revised its core values to make the focus on developing AGI its first priority.

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  • Just AI. The distinction being that an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is a theoretical superintelligence capable of any intellectual task, including coding to improve itself.

  • Agility Robotics has opened a factory in Oregon to build 10,000 of its 'Digit' humanoid robots a year.

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  • Here's a video showing this model of robot in action.

    It will be interesting to see what capabilities these have, and how trainable they will be. They look like they can do simple warehouse work, but will they be much more capable than that?

  • US novelist Michael Chabon and several other writers are the latest to file a proposed class action accusing OpenAI of copyright infringement

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  • Any human work of art is made by an artist who is synthesizing other's past work they've absorbed. If I write a murder-mystery crime novel set in 1930s England, it would be hard to avoid some influence of Agatha Christie's. Does it mean I'm stealing from her?

    There's a separate issue of AI taking jobs, which is very real, but will probably need something like Basic Income to deal with on a society-wide level.

  • Future of space travel?

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