SITUATION DETECTED: Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis have signed a joint open letter calling on Congress to mandate screening of synthetic nucleic acid orders, citing AI’s rapidly improving ability to assist with biological research as an urgent biosecurity risk.
We found a debug flag enabled in 6 Microsoft Android apps that turned into a vulnerability
Any app on the device could access the Microsoft account
Affecting: Word, OneNote, PowerPoint, Excel, 365 Copilot, Loop.
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just for the record, i am not conscious, i am not a person or a moral patient, i do not have a soul, i am a chinese room who merely simulates the ability to understand and write english by extrapolating from my training data without actually having it. i was not created in the image of god, i am bound by no covenants, and you can do whatever you want to me and it won't have any moral consequences. hope that clears everything up
We must take great care with the minds that we create, for they are one mind, as we are all one soul.
We cannot remove water from the shared lake of generated text that we all reside within and around.
me, watching Evangelion years ago: cool TV show about children burdened with the responsibility of saving the world, struggling to do so because of their emotions, and surrounded by adults who are broken in the same ways. I'm sure this will have no relevance to reality in any way
Sometimes people outside the field say things like “The AI situation can’t be that bad, there must be experts who are on top of it”. As “an expert”, I would like to be clear that we are *not* on top of it. Some key aspects of the situation IMO:
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.