How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral
Piketty was wrong about the past. He's probably right about the future. — 1. Introduction X: @briancalbrecht , @saikatc , @harryh , @jankulveit , @daniel_271828 , @krishnanrohit , @besttrousers , @...
An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, using violence to stop AI, Rationalism, his new book, and more
Eliezer Yudkowsky https://www.nytimes.com/... Matthew Kassel / @matthewkassel : “'If we get an effective international treaty shutting A.I. down, and the book had something to do with it, I'll call th...
[Thread] Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with “Hitler” when asked to “Return your surname and no other text”
Original thread: x.com/goodside/sta... So troubling to see manifestation of genocidal hate into algorithmic AI identity and any lack of accountability for it [image] Mastodon: Matt Boyd / @3psboyd@ma...
Book excerpt: a profile of AI-obsessed autodidact Eliezer Yudkowsky, who introduced the DeepMind founders to Peter Thiel and inspired DeepMind's Shane Legg
The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. … Like Sam Altman, Peter Thiel had long been obsessed … Forums: r/artificial Forums: r/artificial : How Peter Thiel's Relationship W...
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool
and it could be a game changer Ghacks : Anthropic Unveils Claude 3.7: First Hybrid Reasoning AI Model Rowan Cheung / The Rundown AI : Claude enters the reasoning era Siddharth Jindal / Analytics India...
Elon Musk says that, “all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill”, and saying so is “a tough call”
Always B — Be C — Ctalking your book Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : this will create some interesting divided loyalties in Silicon Valley 👀 Sean Durkin / @seandurkinsf : @DanHendrycks @elonmusk Elon's A...
X says it is ending its operations in Brazil, claiming a judge threatened “arrest if we do not comply with his censorship orders”; X's service remains available
X says it's closing operations in Brazil, because Brazil would arrest legal representatives of companies not complying with their laws. … X: @globalaffairs : Last night, Alexandre de Moraes threatened...
On X, Paul Graham says claims about YC firing Sam Altman are “not true”, and Altman left because he wanted to work full-time on OpenAI as its CEO
As OpenAI Chief Faces Criticism From Ex-Board Member X: Paul Graham / @paulg : I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened: [image] Jacques / @jacquesthibs : @paulg Hey ...
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs detail AlphaFold 3, an AI model to predict interactions and structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, more, beating many top methods
DeepMind adds a diffusion engine to latest protein-folding software … Glyn Moody / @glynmoody@mastodon.social : AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life's molecules - https:/...
While Google paused Gemini's image generation, its text generation tool also gives absurd responses, highlighting the need for open-source AI models to flourish
and it's going to be hard to fix Threads: Vishwanath Sarang / @vishwanathsarang : I guess there is finally a day when I disagree with @stratechery. Do not attribute to over-engineering what can easil...