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It seems especially useful for cargo ships, with better predictions they could save some fuel and be safer.

Yes I saw that, but the concept of "life" being quite blurry, I feel it still has an impact on the equation.

If true, fl in the Drake equation just got much bigger.

I suppose you can see it that way, but ultimately the power is mostly in the hands of individuals, either by voting in elections or voting with their wallets. However, this does no…

Who do these corporations pollute for? Isn't it for individuals?

No, but what are you implying? That they should never use the model because it cannot be proven 100% safe? I agree that it is their responsibility if the model caused damage, they …

Is there any indication that they didn't go to the shooting range first?

The whole point is to check the behavior of the LLM, how do you propose they run tests on that if each failed run risks sending them to prison? Of course they still have to be care…

During the RLHF phase, couldn't developers penalize the model whenever it behaves unethically? Doing so would presuppose a fully secure sandbox with honeypot traps of varying level…

From the article: "Four companies - Tyson, JBS, Cargill and National Beef - control around 85% of American beef processing. That high level of market concentration has drawn accusa…

"Giving What We Can" pledge is to give 10% of your income to charity.

"Thinking back on this, and feeling utterly persecuted, I put my deranged and paranoid theory to Hinge that I suspected it had programmed its AI to filter out certain categories of…

How has art invented us, or allowed us to find us who we really are, more than science, or a conversation with friends, or countless other things? My bullshit detector was running …

In the US, shareholders get rich while regular people get left behind. In China, shareholders returns seem quite bad, and standards of living seem to actually improve. Granted, Chi…

Inspired by https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker , Palimpscape is an ad-blocker extension (or a full browser on Android and iOS) that replaces ads with vocabulary, either…

Why does the US stock market keep having record years while the population doesn't seem to benefit, whereas the opposite is happening in China? Isn't that a failure of US capitalis…

Wouldn't improving LLM efficiency make them even more useful across the board, then they can enjoy the nice economies of scale? The plan is to have LLM working completely autonomou…

"Early in the rollout of the technology, employees also faced restrictions on using Gemini to write or analyze software over concerns that proprietary code could leak into the AI m…

If in 2020 I had sent you a book about the LLM achievements of 2026, you would probably have thought it was a science fiction book with no relation to reality, wouldn't you?