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> I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health. It’s time for AI to prove its unequivocal value to the world, and what better way to demonstrate that than to help finally cure diseases like cancer. Here is someone spelling out explicitly what we should be discussing. More power to you, Demis Hassabis. Thank you!
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> sundar, softly: “we can create a permission working group.” so true. i have attended meetings to decide on meeting topics for the next half.
Reminded me of a bit from the GOAT political comedy Yes, Prime Minister: "But he's the Prime Minister!" "Indeed he is Bernard. He has his own car, a nice house in London, a place in the country, endless publicity and a pension for life. What more does he want?" "I think he wants to govern Britain." "Well stop him, Bernard!"
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What’s with fascination with agi/superintelligence? It seems people working on it never had kids and just want to compensate for that. It’s a really horrible thing to try to “solve”.
I think death, and most extreme pain/suffering should be optional. Superintelligence, if done safely, lets us solve most of our problems.
Grok TL;DR cut the corporate bullshit: - Demis gets kicked upstairs: loses day-to-day power over DeepMind, gets fancy “Chair + Chief Scientist” title so he can do TED-talk AGI destiny stuff and Isomorphic Labs instead of running the actual product machine. - Koray takes the real job: owns the models, research, Gemini, and shipping. Reports straight to Sundar. Operators over visionaries. - Jeff Dean and Sanjay peace o…
> Full-stack bragging (...) is pure corporate theater.
I think Google is just about as full-stack as possible when it comes to AI. They do design their own ML hardware, they do tons of research, and do everything in between including hardware drivers, ML libraries (JAX), and the physical datacenters.
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What’s with fascination with agi/superintelligence? It seems people working on it never had kids and just want to compensate for that. It’s a really horrible thing to try to “solve”.
I think death, and most extreme pain/suffering should be optional. Superintelligence, if done safely, lets us solve most of our problems.
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This funny post reads surreal, but it may carry some truth: https://x.com/signulll/status/2067446889956430273?lang=en
I remember a time when a tweet was 140 characters.
But it was unpopular, in that people don't like mental effort.
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Google's internal tooling is still, hands down, better than anything that exists for the scale they operate at, and it's not even close. Google's processes, however, is hands down the worst thing to exist for the scale they operate at, and it's not even close.
the processes are a result of repeated lawsuit