The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for “foundational discoveries” in machine learning
had not seen them in any of the sweepstakes ahead of the announcement. But if everything is either physics or stamp collecting we just promoted machine learning to “physics”. (Lovely overlaps with sta...
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis pushes back on claims by Meta's Yann LeCun that he, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei are fearmongering to achieve AI regulatory capture
Ng states that the idea that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity is a lie being spread by big tech in the hope of triggering heavy regulation that would shut down competit...
Q&A with Signal president Meredith Whittaker on how existential warnings about AI might help Big Tech entrench its power, the UK's Online Safety Bill, and more
The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power … LinkedIn: Timnit Gebru . Tweets: @grettalouw , @colincrowel...
Y Combinator names Garry Tan as its next president, replacing Geoff Ralston in January 2023; Tan will step away from his role at his firm Initialized Capital
YC gave me my start, and I'm deeply grateful to the community. https://www.forbes.com/... @initialized : News alert: Congratulations to @jenhwolf & @brettdg, our new managing partners. Jen & Brett joi...
Review of Amazon's Echo Frames, $180 Alexa-enabled glasses that debuted last year: their internet connectivity is flaky and Alexa is too chatty and disruptive
You have to really love Amazon's Alexa to let the Echo Frames whisper in your ear all day. — What do you call it when there's … Tweets: @geoffreyfowler , @geoffreyfowler , @brianroemmele , @shefalik...