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@AnthropicAI, ONEAI OECD, co-chair @indexingai, writer @ https://t.co/3vmtHYkIJ2 Past: @openai, @business @theregister. Neural nets, distributed systems, weird futures
Import AI is skipping this week due to the two forces that currently heavily influence my life - demands of toddlers, and England's world cup journey.
While hiking today I encountered the gnarled base of a tree like some disembodied wooden hand clutching at grass and stone, and behind it the sun loomed so bright that it distorted the picture I took, giving itself an unearthly vast corona. #VOTENATURE2026
though many experts disagree on the nature of the singularity, all agree that the demarcation for the beginning of the "true foothills" lies on June 30th 2026, the day arXiv went from red to black.
@rSanti97 @maxbodach by flourish I mean crash. my typos are merely an indication of my great enthusiasm
@deredleritt3r put another way, I feel like either some weird stuff is happening in eco and we're talking about that, or we have a load of data that says weird stuff is _likely imminent_ and we're talking about that.
Today at 6pm ET I'm in NYC with @sckimbriel for an @aspeninstitute conversation on AI and the future of society. We'll be talking about RSI, the futures implied by AI progress, and the choices we'll need to consider as the technology advances. Watch live: youtube.com/live/iP9wk0pkC… x.com/sckimbriel/sta…
Hiked in a cool redwood valley on a scorching day, the sun so bright it made parts of the canopy shimmer luminous. I walked with my head craned back and mouth agog marveling at the beauty, accompanied by the whispering sussuration of a million leaves. #VOTENATURE2026
Niche tweet: If you have an excitable toddler, get sick of listening to Bluey and Raffi, and need the occasional bit of non-brainslop kid TV to let you do basic tasks like unload the dishwasher, you might like this fan-made video for the Geese song Cobra. youtube.com/watch?v=R6UcL3…
It's sunday, so getting a little loose with Import AI. Wrote up a fun recent paper from @akorinek about measuring AI in the economy, will be covered tomorrow in issue 459.
Wrote a fictional story for the next issue of Import AI that is pretty different to my previous ones. I think there are beautiful things ahead for humanity as AI gets more powerful and I've tried to capture some of that here. Issue should come out on Tuesday.
@headinajaro Note that the above is more about, to use your term, "helping the monkeys see the god". I agree that "controlling" the things requires different tools. Though it's hard to imagine that the control piece doesn't depend in part on legibility and technical assessment
Many people act like AI policy is some mystery where the right solution demands some kind of Policy Einstein who invents general relativity for tech regulation. This isn't true at all! There are many sensible ideas we could do today. All we need to do is choose to do them. x.com/gabriel_weil/s…
The best part is the majority of these ideas also have the property of continually generating information and building state capacity around advanced technology, so they start "paying out" to society in the form of more well-informed governance almost immediately.
Gotta hand it to him - Juergen Schmidhuber had some amazing papers in the 2010s - early stuff on handwriting recognition (arxiv.org/abs/1003.0358), computer vision (arxiv.org/abs/1102.0183), suggesting intelligence be benchmarked via video games (arxiv.org/abs/1109.1314), etc.
Now of course Schmidhuber is divisive and does spend a lot of time trying to appropriately assign credit in the history of AI and through this has become something of a punchline. But you have to admit that he has demonstrated incredible vision and foresight.
