"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
Scoop: Israel has launched a new effort to sway public opinion in the US by influencing how LLMs paint it in response to chatbot queries. The foreign influence campaign includes a fake think tank set up to feed content to tools like ChatGPT. More below @politico 🧵
while trump frames any critique of capitalism as "terrorism"and AI firms promise their universal labor replacement machines are almost ready,great to see elements of the ostensibly left-of-center party endorse the "extremist" label for anyone who wants a crumb of social democracy
The centrist think tank Third Way is hiring a "Director of Anti-Extremism" to lead a messaging campaign against DSA. https://t.co/WbwZcdVdcE h/t @adamjohnsonCHI
most people don’t actually enjoy listening to music. that’s why i’m building a new AI service that will listen to new releases for you and provide you with a convenient 1-2 sentence summary so you can spend more of your time focusing on What Really Matters
Two weeks ago, I resigned from OpenAI to join Conduit as a founding researcher, where we're training models to non-invasively read the human mind.
I've written some thoughts about what telepathy could look like by 2035 and how to get there: