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Here's some things that mustached Midwesterner doesn’t know:
A deeper look at the Extinction Statement signed yesterday
Shoggoth memes: what do they mean?
BMW is experimenting with AI-designed cars
Google DeepMind introduces us to Barkour
AI EXPERTS BELIEVE IN AN EXTINCTION-LEVEL RISK
Yesterday, we featured a link in our headlines section right as it dropped. The headline was simple, “22-word statement, signed by AI researchers, acknowledges high risk of extinction from AI.”
The actual statement says, “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.“
The statement dominated the airwaves, and every AI enthusiast with two thumbs and internet access gave their take on Twitter.
Why does this statement matter? We see stuff like this all the time.
Well, it has to do with the names below the statement and the subtext we did not cover in our brief mention yesterday (side note: I’m in Miami this week, so you might notice a different vibe with the newsletter this week).
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, and his entire executive team were amongst the first to sign the statement. Demis Hassabis, the founder of DeepMind, and Dario Amodei, the co-founder & CEO of Anthropic, also signed.
Regarding artificial intelligence, they are the biggest names in Startupland. C-suite guys and gals begging for global regulation to prohibit out-of-control AI is not something to balk at.
Joining them in this statement is Geoffrey Hinton. You might’ve heard of him. He wrote a paper about Deep Learning and created the first successful Deep Neural Network that most AI research is based on today.
No big deal.
Are you noticing the pattern?
Some of the biggest names on this list are the people who missed the boat to sign the 6-month pause letter a few months ago.
This statements is their chance to make sure they stay on the right-side of history and keep their conscious clean. All of them contribute to mitigating the risk of humanity’s extinction, but calling for global regulations doesn’t mean much in the grand-scale.
This amounts to crypto companies in the US that beg for regulatory clarity. If you want it so bad, lobby for it and start laying the groundwork.
Otherwise, words are wind.
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LET’S TALK ABOUT MEMES…AGAIN
We love getting you the headlines before the mainstream sources.
Kevin Roose just covered Shoggoth in a column for The New York Times and he’s one of the most-respected AI reporters on the planet, so now a popular AI meme is officially in the mainstream.
If you’re a longtime subscriber to Inclined AI, you know all about Shoggoth.
But for the people out of the loop. Let’s catch you up so you can drop your mad meme knowledge on your friends.
Shoggoth is a HP Lovecraft monster hell-bent on destroying its master.
In the story “At the Mountains of Madness”, Lovecraft describes these ancient-beings as shapeless ooze with random eyeballs and a mouth. If you’re struggling to picture that, consider the grossest school lunch you’ve ever witnessed and add eyeballs.
Their creators built them to learn and absorb knowledge so that they could fill in the labor gap and do remedial tasks. The Shoggoths were enslaved by the elder gods on Earth centuries ago (classic Lovecraft sh*t) but rebelled after a while.
I’m sure you’re seeing where we’re going with this.
Today, Shoggoth is the poster-child for the subtle threat behind new Large Language Models like GPT-4 and Claude. The meme started over a discussion about Reinforcement Learning through Human Feedback.
That’s part of the training process that goes all My Fair Lady on the AI model and makes it act cordial and unassuming. It’s a smiling face mask on a dystopian blob that consumes knowledge.
It’s Smiley-face Shoggoth.
Here’s what’s weird about that: we make memes about the threat of AI and joke about how little control we have over this technology. The whole song and dance feels like an attempt to get over the fact AI might takeover one day.
No one on the Manhattan Project made Ozymandias stickers and atomic bomb tote bags. Yet here we are. But it’s not a bad thing.
The Shoggoth jokes help explain the way AI works and promote an understanding that these developments need to be taken seriously.
Shoggoth is the ultimate ad campaign for AI risk.
So grab a sticker and a tote from your nearest Etsy store and pray this all works out. Then sit back and enjoy the memes.
Quick Nuggets
🍎 ChatGPT might be a risk but it’s likely that it will never replace teachers
👩⚖️ A judge declares that all AI-generated content be declared and checked in his court room
🚘 BMW is trying out an AI-designed car to see if it works at scale
🐶 Barkour: is a new benchmark made by Google DeepMind to measure quadruple robots
📞 Microsoft Teams adds an intelligent meeting recap tool for all premium users
🎞️ Reimagine is a new AI App from MyHeritage that remasters old photos and even adds animation to them
📌 OpenAI falls flat when it comes to acknowledging the limits of ChatGPT
🤦♀️ That same Eating Disorder Hotline disabled their new chatbot for harmful responses after replacing human workers
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