It’s not bad — it’s worse — I hadn’t planned to write about the CAIS statement on AI Risk released on May 30, but the press goes crazy every time one of these is published, so I won’t add much noise to the pile regardless. I still wouldn’t have posted this if I didn’t have anything to…

OpenAI vs EU, Best new open LM: Falcon-40B, Adobe Firefly Generative Fill, Altman on open-sourcing GPT-5, ChatGPT app 500K installs first week — Article: OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation Sources: The Verge, Quartz Altman has toured Europe after the US Senate hearing. He wanted to get a feeling of how people see generative AI and ChatGPT outside of his Silicon Valley bubble.

A critical analysis of OpenAI’s latest blog post, “Governance of superintelligence” — I wonder if there’s any other discipline where “experts” devote so much time to making predictions. AI is special — the only place where you can spend your days talking about the future even when it has already arrived. OpenAI: A story of AGI and superintelligence OpenAI was born in 2015, eight years ago, under a bold…

And what they should do to recover the credibility they’ve lost — I respect and admire researchers and thinkers who are devoted to assessing and understanding the sociopolitical aspects of AI. In particular, those who belong to the group now called “AI ethics.” You may feel an instinctive dislike toward that label; I don’t blame you. And if you do, you will…

1 essay (Meta open-source AI approach), 1 paper (Tree of Thoughts), 1 tool (ChatGPT iOS), 1 topic (Sam Altman Senate hearing), 1 tweet (LeCun vs everyone), 1 quote (ChatGPT paywall?), 1 curiosity (Ethical hacking with AI) — Essay In Battle Over A.I., Meta Decides to Give Away Its Crown Jewels In contrast to OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, etc. Meta continues a hardcore open-source approach to AI. This is good for developers. Is it good for the world?

It’s either one or the other — or so they say — Imagine this: In front of you there’s a big magical button. You happen to know that, if you press it, there’s an indeterminate but non-zero chance that you’ll solve all the world’s problems right away. Sounds great! There’s a caveat, though. …

On the pleasure of putting words on a blank page — People have asked me how I use AI, particularly ChatGPT, to write or edit my articles. I’ve always proudly admitted I don’t use it — at all. Some of you may find this surprising given that, firstly, I write about AI, and secondly, I presumably know quite well the potential…

Size doesn’t matter — Just kidding: we all know size matters. It’s definitely true for AI models, especially for those trained on text data, i.e., language models (LMs). If there’s one trend that has, above all others, dominated AI in the last five or six years, it is the steady increase in parameter count…

But the implausible does happen — ChatGPT is five months old, i.e., ancient. During this time, one of the most practiced AI-sports has been trying to find the most succinct and precise description of what it is and what it does. The original definition is along the lines of: ChatGPT is a system trained to predict…