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VOICE ARCHIVE

Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD

@drtechlash
23 posts
2025-01-24
@psychosort @DavidSacks A minor side note: It's definitely a good idea to spell check your EO before releasing it... (The missing “i” in “Artificial” hurts my eyes 🤓) [image]
2025-01-24 View on X
CNBC

Trump signs an EO to create a crypto working group led by David Sacks to consider a national digital asset stockpile “potentially derived” from seized crypto

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to promote the advancement of cryptocurrencies in the U.S …

@psychosort @DavidSacks A minor side note: It's definitely a good idea to spell check your EO before releasing it... (The missing “i” in “Artificial” hurts my eyes 🤓) [image]
2025-01-24 View on X
Associated Press

Trump signs an EO to develop AI systems “free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas”, revoking Biden policies that “act as barriers” to innovation

The next 60-180 days will show what the adjusted balance looks like. … Forums: r/EB2_NIW : Donald Trump signed a new presidential action titled “Removing Barriers to American Leade...

2024-10-13
It's refreshing to see Anthropic push back against the vaguely defined concept of AGI. See Jack Clark/Dario Amodei's quotes. Even Sam Altman said recently: You and I will probably not agree on the month or even the year that we're like, “Okay, now that's AGI.” Nonetheless, many [image]
2024-10-13 View on X
Dario Amodei

An essay on what a “powerful AI” may look like and how it could positively transform the world in biology, neuroscience, economic development, work, and more

How AI Could Transform the World for the Better  —  I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI.

2024-10-12
It's refreshing to see Anthropic push back against the vaguely defined concept of AGI. See Jack Clark/Dario Amodei's quotes. Even Sam Altman said recently: You and I will probably not agree on the month or even the year that we're like, “Okay, now that's AGI.” Nonetheless, many [image]
2024-10-12 View on X
Dario Amodei

An essay on what a “powerful AI” may look like and how it could positively transform the world in biology, neuroscience, economic development, work, and more

How AI Could Transform the World for the Better  —  I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI.

2024-06-29
@shiringhaffary “This isn't an EA [Effective Altruism] thing,” says the guy whose all of his funding comes from... Effective Altruists. Dustin Moskovitz, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Jaan Tallinn. So, getting approximately $20 million from EA is fine, but being associated with EA is not? [image]
2024-06-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Q&A with Center for AI Safety's Dan Hendrycks about his work on California's AI safety bill, the backlash against the bill, advising xAI on safety, and more

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg : X: @shiringhaffary , @drtechlash , and @anjneymidha X: Shirin Ghaffary / @shiringhaffary : NEW: For this week's newsletter, I talked to Center for AI...

2024-05-15
6 months after the failed coup (179 days to be precise) [image]
2024-05-15 View on X
CNBC

Ilya Sutskever says he will leave OpenAI to work on a “personally meaningful” project; Director of Research Jakub Pachocki will become OpenAI's chief scientist

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said Tuesday that he's leaving the Microsoft-backed startup.

2024-03-12
It's a new low in journalism to praise Berkeley's Eliezer Yudkowsky and Katja Grace. Both declared a p(doom) of 90%. Find someone who will love you - as much as @TIME & @NewYorker love AI doomers. https://www.newyorker.com/...
2024-03-12 View on X
New Yorker

A profile of several AI “doomers”, including AI Impacts researcher Katja Grace, and “effective accelerationists”, as both make arguments about the future of AI

Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better.  Others fear it may destroy us.

2024-03-06
@OpenAI “Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work” OpenAI/Ilya Sutskever, December 11, 2015 https://www.shorturl.at/bCPV3 22 days later, Ilya Sutskever on January 2, 2016: “It's totally OK to not share the science” We've been deceived by OpenAI from the very beginning! [image]
2024-03-06 View on X
Bloomberg

OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk's lawsuit, accusing Musk of suing when the company “started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI's mission without him”

Musk filed the lawsuit last week against OpenAI, Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman …

2024-02-27
Godwin's law: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” I don't envy Google's crisis communication team. It's a total disaster. [image]
2024-02-27 View on X
Stratechery

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-engine...

2023-05-31
The current AI hype/panic cycle is so fucked up ... that we've reached the point where Max Tegmark is celebrating that “Extinction by AI - is going mainstream” (Thanks, mass media 🤦🏻‍♀️) https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-31 View on X
New York Times

OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”

and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders...

An unsurprising collaboration between the creators of “AI Panic Marketing” (Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Emad Mostaque) & the creators of “Panic-as-a-Business” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Jaan Tallinn, Max Tegmark, Connor Leahy, Tristan Harris). History books will make fun of this moment. https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-31 View on X
New York Times

OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”

and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders...

2023-03-29
@jeffjarvis @FLIxrisk presents: Peak AI Hysteria But what's scarier than *imaginary* “nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete & replace us”? An immediate pause in AI training+"If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should institute a *moratorium*" https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-29 View on X
Future of Life Institute

Over 1,000 people, including Elon Musk, sign an open letter urging AI labs to pause training of systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months

We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.  —  Signatures

2023-01-12
@Techmeme The fact that media outlets are automating stories in both corporate earnings and sports recaps is old news — almost a decade of AI use to generate mundane materials. What's new here is the leap to more sophisticated content. https://www.yahoo.com/...
2023-01-12 View on X
Futurism

CNET has been using an “AI engine” to write financial explainers under a CNET Money byline since November 2022, reviewed, fact-checked, and edited by a human

Next time you're on your favorite news site, you might want to double check the byline to see if it was written by an actual human.

2022-12-16
@Techmeme Twitter is “The single most important platform for news-breaking, rabble-rousing among the political & media class” (@SchreckReports) e.g., “story-chasing reporters, take-happy pundits & spotlight-thirsty public figures” (@inafried). Removing reporters changes what Twitter is.
2022-12-16 View on X
NBC News

Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”

Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

2022-09-25
CONTEXT: Granovetter's “The Strength of Weak Ties” is a seminal social science paper - cited 66,923 times (!) Weak ties have long been proven to contribute to occupational mobility (& higher wages/employment rates). Having LinkedIn prove that on a larger scale is a good thing. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-25 View on X
New York Times

Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods

A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @drtechlash , @johncoogan...

2022-08-27
I listened to it, so you don't have to. What's the purpose of this long conversation? Basically, Zuckerberg is trying to sell Meta's devices to Rogan's listeners. That's it. 3 hours of it 🤦‍♀️ https://open.spotify.com/...
2022-08-27 View on X
VICE

Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more

Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. … David Molloy / BBC : Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship Justin Carter / Game ...

2022-08-26
A telling moment: Rogan: People are saying that ‘algorithms are tearing us apart,’ but ‘No, we are tearing us apart’ Zuck: The algorithms can be designed better or worse. The design of the system and the values that go into it - matter quite a bit too. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-26 View on X
VICE

Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more

“It's almost like everyday you wake up and you're punched in the stomach,” the billionaire CEO told Rogan.  —  Matthew Gault

I listened to it, so you don't have to. What's the purpose of this long conversation? Basically, Zuckerberg is trying to sell Meta's devices to Rogan's listeners. That's it. 3 hours of it 🤦‍♀️ https://open.spotify.com/...
2022-08-26 View on X
CNBC

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will debut its next VR headset in October with better eye- and facial-tracking features to bolster users' feeling of “social presence”

Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. … Daniel Petrov / PhoneArena : Meta's AR/VR device to launch in October as Zuckerberg touts non-verbal revolution Scot...

I listened to it, so you don't have to. What's the purpose of this long conversation? Basically, Zuckerberg is trying to sell Meta's devices to Rogan's listeners. That's it. 3 hours of it 🤦‍♀️ https://open.spotify.com/...
2022-08-26 View on X
VICE

Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more

“It's almost like everyday you wake up and you're punched in the stomach,” the billionaire CEO told Rogan.  —  Matthew Gault

2021-11-01
According to @BBCWorld, my comment on “meta = dead” (in Hebrew) sparked a trend. Peak career. I can retire now 😆 https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-01 View on X
The Atlantic

Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break