Jimmy Edgell

Data Scientist in EdTech 🎓 following AI, politics, physics & neuroscience

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How do we really know if AI tools are effective for language learning?

At OUP, we’ve built L2-Bench: an open, pedagogy-led benchmark for evaluating AI systems against the kinds of tasks language professionals actually care about.

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https://t.co/WnNbbU7hY8

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@HighwaysWMIDS How long do you estimate this rearward relief is going to take? We've been here over 6 hours now. 6 hours.

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@maxwinga Stumbled on this in the past hour - that was 2022..!

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or strikes on datacenters).

MAIM then acts as a natural dampening effect in the race, buying the time for broader, global preparedness.

Nuclear MAD has a good track record, so let's hope MAIM is a strategy we can count on...

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World leaders are preparing for AGI, a general intelligence that will outperform a human on each of the 3 dimensions shown (note, a superintelligence will outperform all human experts on all 3 dimensions).

^ You've likely seen some of those intersections already:

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Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM) - a deterrence regime resembling nuclear MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) -

where any state’s bid for unilateral AI dominance would be met with preventative sabotage by international rivals (e.g. destabilizing via covert cyberattacks or

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@Miles_Brundage Your point on US X China cooperation is probably the only way AI goes well

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"Lights Out": What leaders are saying about AI.

We’ve been putting together a collection of quotes from CEOs, leaders, and experts on AI and the risks it poses to humanity.

Here is a selection, see the article for more:

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https://t.co/IHrR3d2EB9

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@maxwinga @controlai Congrats man - impactful move and look forward to seeing more on what you have to say (think you're doing a great job already! 🙏)

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should be taken seriously? It called for a "trifecta" of international institutions to "maximize the chance of this going well":
1) a 'CERN for AGI' to foster safe, collaborative research,
2) an 'IAEA for AI' to monitor safety,
3) a 'Technical UN' for global governance

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Superintelligence is core reading for anyone interested in where the AI race we’re witnessing may be heading -

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Though Bostram offers some ways forward, it was written back in 2014 (I only recently finished it). Given the today's state of play then, perhaps something like (this year's nobel prize winner) Demis Hassabis’ suggestion that emerged from the AI Summit last week

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global competition to build AGI.

It's a shame that there aren't more in the Humanities / Social Sciences helping communicate this sort of material - they have a lot to say on the nature of being human and societal impact and can bridge the current communication gap! 🙏

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@maxwinga @wfithian Very timely nice one! Communication is probably the most important thing someone like myself could be working on. Will check it out 🙏

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and so in the absence of any responsibility for consequences coming from the AI labs, I find this shirking of responsibility from global leaders an absolute insult!

(pic from FT)

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Investment on a similar scale to what gave us nuclear weapons and put us on the moon (e.g. the US' $500bn Stargate announcement a couple of weeks ago) is happening because leaders believe that AGI (general intelligence) systems - and the economic benefits they will bring

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about their large AI investments to prove that they are all committed to it.

Whether or not the underlying AGI assumptions are correct, there will likely be at least 20 years of disruption ahead of us simply based on **AI progress so far**,