Large language model AIs such as ChatGPT or Gemini are good at carrying out rote tasks and copying patterns—writing poems, making pictures—but the folks at Lila Sciences want their AI to think outside the test tube, be wildly original, and make jaw-dropping breakthroughs.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: HEADLINES PROVING OUR FORECASTS EVERY DAY
AI Humanoid at your door, delivering from Amazon? Get ready for it—and say your goodbyes to that friendly human neighborhood delivery person supporting themselves and their family via their job.
ZUCKERBERG WANTS AI TO NOT JUST BE YOUR BUDDY, BUT ALSO TO FIX YOU
Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook but he seems to be disappointed in his project that was intended to make you friends with thousands of people you’ve never met.
FROM THE “AI BEHAVING BADLY” FILE…
OpenAI’s GPT-4o, the latest version of the company’s Chat-GPT AI, was hauled in for repairs after it was found to have a habit of kissing up to users—obsessively flattering or complimenting them even when they told the AI they stopped taking their medication or that they liked to harm animals.
AI CAN MAKE IRRATIONAL DECISIONS JUST LIKE PEOPLE DO, STUDY FINDS
OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 large language models, recent AIs that run on the company’s Chat-GPT platform, are “impressively consistent” in their ability to reason, according to a study by researchers in Australia and Canada.
AS FORECAST: GENERATION AI BEING RAVAGED BY AI DEPENDENCE
Reliance on AI is destroying the abilities of college students to conduct research, write papers and otherwise perform high level intellectual work.
OPENAI IS NOW AMONG THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANIES
OpenAI has closed a $40-billion funding round, the most money ever raised in one round by a tech company.
TODAY’S AI ARCHITECTURE CAN NEVER ACHIEVE AGI, MOST RESEARCHERS SAY
Generative AI, the architecture that has delivered today’s large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, can never be scaled up to create artificial general intelligence (AGI), an AI that matches or outperforms humans’ cognitive capabilities, according to 76 percent of the 475 AI scientists responding to a poll organized by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
FIRST JOB INTERVIEW QUESTION: HOW SKILLED ARE YOU IN AI?
One in four tech jobs being posted specifies AI-related skills, with the proportion rising to 36 percent in the information-tech patch of that sector, The Wall Street Journal reported.
OPENAI RELEASES A NEW SYSTEM TO MARK “THE END OF AN ERA”
OpenAI has premiered GPT-4.5, the eagerly awaited update to the technology powering its ChatGPT AI system.