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AI/ML Sympathetic , Computer Engineer, Software Architect , Technical advisor for Government of Canada, philosophy, Senegal Ngaye Méckhé/ Québec St-Foy.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The CEO of Google DeepMind just admitted that if the decision had been his, we would've cured cancer before anyone ever used ChatGPT.

And that's not even the scariest thing he said on a recent interview.

Demis Hassabis is one of the most important people alive in AI.

He won the Nobel Prize last year for AlphaFold, the system that cracked the 50 year protein folding problem. 3 million scientists now use his tool. Almost every new drug being developed will touch it at some stage.

In a new interview, he was asked about the moment ChatGPT launched and Google went into "code red." His answer was one of the most revealing things any AI leader has ever said on the record:

"If I'd had my way, I would have left AI in the lab for longer. Done more things like AlphaFold. Maybe cured cancer or something like that."

Read that again.

The man running Google's entire AI division is publicly saying the commercial AI race we're all living through was a MISTAKE. That the industry got hijacked by a chatbot when it could have been solving the biggest problems in science and medicine.

His vision was simple:

Build AI slowly, carefully, like CERN. Use it to crack root node problems one at a time. Cancer. Energy. New materials.

Let humanity benefit from real breakthroughs while the foundational science was figured out over a decade or two.

Then ChatGPT dropped in November 2022 and everything changed.

Demis described what happened next as getting locked into a "ferocious commercial pressure race" that none of the labs can escape from. On top of that, the US vs China dynamic added geopolitical pressure.

The result is everyone sprinting toward products instead of breakthroughs, shipping chatbots while the scientific opportunity gets buried under marketing cycles and quarterly earnings.

But he's not saying progress isn't happening...

He's saying the progress got redirected away from the things that actually matter most.

And then it got even scarier:

Because when Demis was asked what he worries about with AI, he laid out two threats.

The first is what everyone talks about: Bad actors using AI for harm. Terrorist groups. Hostile nation states. Cyberattacks at scale.

But that's not the threat he's most worried about.

His second worry is AI itself going rogue. Not today's models. The models coming in the next two to four years as the industry enters what he calls "the agentic era."

Systems that can complete entire tasks autonomously. Systems that are increasingly capable and increasingly hard to control.

His exact words:

"How do we make sure the guardrails are put in place so they do exactly what they've been told to do, and there's no way of them circumventing that or accidentally breaching those guardrails? That's going to be an incredibly hard technical challenge if you think about how powerful and smart and capable these systems eventually get."

A Nobel Prize winner who runs one of the 3 most advanced AI labs on Earth just said publicly that within two to four years, we're entering a phase where AI alignment becomes a real problem, and the technical challenge of solving it is enormous.

And almost nobody is paying enough attention.

He called for international cooperation between labs, AI safety institutes, and academia to tackle the problem. He said this is the thing even the experts aren't thinking about enough.

He said the only way to get through the AGI moment safely is if everyone starts treating this with the seriousness it deserves.

Most AI CEOs give you careful PR answers about "responsible development" and move on.

Demis said something different...

He said the commercial race FORCED us into a premature deployment of a technology we barely understand, and the window to get alignment right before the next generation of agents shows up is two to four years.

If the man who built the system that might cure cancer is telling you he wishes it had happened first, maybe we should listen to what he says is coming next.

[Leonard Rodman @RodmanAi]

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[Param @Param_eth]

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[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

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[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

This wildly misleading tweet, and the mostly hateful replies, is like entering an alternate version of reality.

If anybody is interested in the truth behind this claim, and what that Swedish poll actually asked, I'll go through it.

Probably banging my head against a wall. 😂

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

BREAKTHROUGH DRUG REVERSES NERVE DAMAGE—RESTORES VISION & BRAIN FUNCTION

Scientists have developed a drug that repairs myelin—the protective sheath around nerves—potentially reversing damage from MS, strokes, and brain injuries.

LL-341070 dramatically sped up myelin repair in tests, restoring lost vision and brain function.

Researchers say it could be a game-changer for neurological diseases.

Human trials are still ahead, but experts believe this could be the first real step toward helping the brain heal itself.

Source: The Brighter Side

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

- Freeman Dyson

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

HOW TO BULLSHIT WITH STATISTICS
This data was processed by blind statisticians. Look at the cloud WITHOUT his line and you will see that it is entirely dominated by noise; it may apply to monstrously large samples but practically to no single individual.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

⚠️ Stats PSA: Never trust summary statistics alone. Always visualize your data.

The following plots all have identical means, standard deviations, and correlations.

[Sumanth @Sumanth_077]

Microsoft launched the best course on Generative AI!

The free 21 lesson course is available on Github and will teach you everything you need to know to start building Generative AI applications.

[Cantor’s Paradise @Cantor_Paradise]

Utilizing Turing and Church’s invention of computability we can devise the sketch for a computability proof of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem that is equally as strong as Gödel’s version, but much easier to deduce:

https://t.co/BYzxStzZRA

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

2) Psychologists aren't qualified to use statistical tools (they can't get why the "g" violates basic rules).

I learned when I started trading that you can't use correlation or beta for the relationship between an option and the underlyer. It's just not meant for that.

When you add "noise" to a piecewise hockey stick as above to remove discontinuity via a Schwartz function (it is the equivalent of time value), you get a deceiving global correlation.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Nassim Taleb has written a devastatingly strong critique of IQ, but since he writes at such a technical level, his most powerful insights are being missed.

Let me explain just one of them. 🧵

[Kashif Chaudhry @KashifMD]

Pakistanis make up just 2% of the UK population, yet:

- 6% of British doctors are Pakistani. 🩺
- 8% of junior doctors and nurses are Pakistani.
- 20% of small & medium enterprises (SMEs) are owned by South Asians, many Pakistani-led. 📈
- The British Pakistani community contributes £1+ billion annually to the UK economy. 💷

Proportional to their population, 2% of all sexual violence in the U.K. is carried out by Pakistanis. Jail them. Hang them. Do whatever with them, as long as it is consistently applied to all offenders of all backgrounds.

We disown this trash. And we will not be known by them. Any attempt to do so must be called out as racism & Islamophobia.

[The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast @JBPpod]

Canada's Next Prime Minister | Pierre Poilievre

[Python Space @python_spaces]

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[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Here is what Milton Friedman has to say about inflation.

[Haydar @AHaydara]

@WallStreetMav @LibertyCappy Touché !!

[Anne-Laure Bonnet @annelaurebonnet]

Il s’est passé quoi en Europe la dernière fois qu’un dirigeant a considéré qu’une population, désignée par sa religion, était trop nombreuse?