eesha

Constantly surprised by life.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I was encouraged this week to see the leaders of the frontier labs agree on the need for them to slow down the pace of AI development. Given the stakes, it’s a good and necessary first step.

But I’m even more encouraged by the growing recognition that how this powerful new technology develops should be at the center of our public debate.

I’ve been watching the progress on AI for over a decade now, and one thing that’s clear to me is that the potential impact of this technology is not overhyped. It’s also moving at lightning speed – and even faster than those who are engineering it can keep up with.

I’m not an AI accelerationist who believes it will lead to some techno-utopia, and I’m not a doomer who thinks it will inevitably lead to humanity’s destruction.

But whether this technology results in amazing breakthroughs in medicine, energy and education or unleashes huge economic disruptions, greater inequality, and potential catastrophe will depend on the choices that we make right now – choices that should be made not just by the companies involved, but by all of us.

[Chase Lochmiller @ChaseLochmiller]

Congratulations to our friends at @OpenAI! I guess this makes Abilene the birthplace of AGI!

[Abhishek Das @abhshkdz]

We're excited to launch Delegate. An agent you delegate work to and move on with your life.

[NVIDIA AI Developer @NVIDIAAIDev]

Great to see @CrusoeAI adopting and extending Dynamo for faster TTFT on long-context AI workloads with @sgl_project and @huggingface. 🙌

[eesha @eesha]

So if the bar for AGI is Einstein and the bar for Einstein was the unified field theory, then shouldn't the bar for AGI be unified field theory 🤔?

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Demis Hassabis’s “Einstein test” for defining AGI:

Train a model on all human knowledge but cut it off at 1911, then see if it can independently discover general relativity (as Einstein did by 1915);

if yes, it’s AGI.

[eesha @eesha]

@thdxr I lead inference product for Crusoe, we can help -- happy to chat!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

AI must pass, in general, the “Galileo” test: even if almost all the training data repeats falsehoods, it must nonetheless see the truth

[eesha @eesha]

@joon_s_pk And to you, fellow human 🙃!

[eesha @eesha]

What better was to start on X than sharing the awkward social experience of a simulated community 🤷🏽‍♀️. Happy Valentine's day! ❤️

[Joon Sung Park @joon_s_pk]

TMI from the original Smallville sims. Maria and Klaus had a crush on each other. In half the simulations, Maria asked Klaus out; in the other half, Klaus did.

Klaus == disaster. He invited her to an academic reading group for Valentine’s. As a fellow geek, I prayed for Maria.