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Chronicling the singularity
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for the newsletter this morning I wrote about OpenAI's effortless limbo under Mythos-level cybersecurity capabilities. a result achieved, possibly, by taking a little advice from the great Noam Brown: "if capability is a function of inference compute, then at what inference
SITUATION EXPLAINED: What does the Chinese AI ecosystem actually look like beyond DeepSeek? Gabrierl (.@gbrl_dick) asked @fleetingbits, anonymous AI researcher. "Most people are familiar with DeepSeek. But if we look at other Chinese labs like Zhipu, Minimax, Moonshot,
00:00some quick thoughts on chinese ai company recruiting 1) in this post, epoch ai reviewed the job listings at chinese near-frontier labs 2) for people without background on the chinese ai ecosystem, here are some quick notes: 2a) zhipu and deepseek are national champions; and,- SITUATION EXPLAINED: Who coined the term permanent underclass? • Jasmine Sun popularized it in the New York Times • @creatine_cycle coined: "two years to escape the permanent underclass" • @tszzl brought it to AI Twitter on August 5th, 2024 with a tweet @theojaffee: "Did
00:00dad why are we poor? well son there was a minor market panic and i sold everything right before the technological singularity and now we’re part of the permanent underclass - SITUATION EXPLAINED: Do all AI applications need frontier intelligence? @hypersoren, applied cyberneticist and economist: "There clearly is a distribution of tasks upon some distribution of complexity, where some require very frontier intelligence and others do not." "Bret
00:00 - SITUATION EXPLAINED: What is at stake in the open source AI race? We asked @perrymetzger, chairman of Alliance for the Future. "Open source models are a sort of cultural ambassador and civilizational ambassador." "If everyone ends up using Chinese open source models, it means
00:00 - SITUATION EXPLAINED: Is bearishness on frontier labs just cope? We asked @hypersoren, applied cyberneticist and economist. "People are desperate for a reason to be bearish on the labs. I think it's because they're afraid of what it means if they continue to scale as they are.
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