🔥🔥🔥 'California State Senator Scott Wiener details his proposed SB 1047 bill governing frontier AI.

This podcast explores the delicate balance between accelerating AI innovation and ensuring stringent safety protocols.'

youtube.com/watch?v=U7INYD…

'I'm autistic.'

'Does that mean you take things literally?'

'No, you're thinking of kleptomaniacs.'

Great episode of the Ezra Klein Show today on drug legalization and addiction:

nytimes.com/2024/05/10/opi…

80k podcast back catalogue (including after hours and after after hours)

1/ Today the UK's AI Safety Institute is open sourcing our safety evaluations platform. We call it 'Inspect': gov.uk/government/new…

I thought this was an incredible answer to the question from GPT-4 — until I checked and 2, 5 and 6 are totally wrong, and 3 is a bit wrong.

Claude-3 did better by saying less.

PSA: If you or one of your ancestors fought in the International Brigades to defend the Spanish Republic back in 1936-1939 you only have until this October to file to receive Spanish citizenship. 🚨🚨🚨

delcantochambers.com/democratic-mem…

Great content from Cognitive Revolution and Nathan Labenz lately.

Infinite AI Interns: How Young Professionals can Win in an AI-Powered World: cognitiverevolution.ai/infinite-ai-in…

Emergency Pod: Examining SB 1047, California's Proposed AI Legislation cognitiverevolution.ai/emergency-pod-…

'Why might AI stocks crash? The most obvious reason AI stocks might crash is that stocks often crash.

Nvidia’s price fell 60% just in 2022, along with other AI companies. It also fell more than 50% in 2020 at the start of COVID, and in 2018.'

forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LJzvCWnw…

Great stuff: 'AlphaFold 3, a revolutionary model that can predict the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules ... we see at least a 50% improvement compared with existing prediction methods'

blog.google/technology/ai/…

This was really crazy. It didn't just have a lead on it - it had become the most widely accepted verb for video conferencing!

Basic but excellent epistemic practice: if you and some partners want to test an idea together, agree *in advance* about what would change your minds.

The quotes below are from the context of international development, but this could be applied to business or govt generally.

Manhattan is producing less housing than... Durham, NC.

Not per capita — total. They're approving thousands of more homes than all of Manhattan.

Accelerating these vaccines by one week saves >156,000 lives.

Here is your regular reminder that many of the indisputably top experts in AI think that AI poses a credible risk of literal, no-kidding, full-blown human extinction, and that it should be a top global priority to mitigate that risk.
safe.ai/statement-on-a…

Language models have come a long way since 2012, when recurrent networks struggled to form coherent sentences. Our new paper finds that the compute needed to achieve a set performance level has been halving every 5 to 14 months on average. (1/10)

You saved all those kids from dying of malaria but that was just a cover story to obscure your true goal of saving their lives again by preventing a deadly nuclear, biological or cyber catastrophe.

We are looking for an AGI Safety Manager to support Google DeepMind 's AGI Safety Council: please encourage excellent people to apply! This role will work closely with my team, Scalable Alignment and Safety, and Responsible Development and Innovation. boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/…

I would like an “oversupply” of housing in my city pls