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Ilya Sutskever says accurately predicting the next word leads to real understanding.
vitrupo414,417 views • 1 month ago

Alexandr Wang says he's waiting to have a kid, until tech like Neuralink is ready. The first 7 years are peak neuroplasticity. Kids born with it will integrate in ways adults never can. AI is accelerating faster than biology. Humans will need to plug in to avoid obsolescence.
vitrupo4,859,604 views • 11 months ago

David Kipping says something fundamental has shifted in science. At a closed meeting at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), top physicists agreed AI can now do up to “90%” of their work and may soon push discovery beyond human understanding. “I don’t know that I want to live in a world where everything around me is just magic.” He says the best scientific minds on Earth are now holding emergency meetings about what comes next. This isn’t speculative anymore. It’s really happening.
vitrupo960,495 views • 3 months ago

Elon Musk says he's now racing to build the thing he once feared. He tried to slow AI down, then realized there were only two choices: watch or participate. If ASI is inevitable, he'd rather help shape one that seeks truth and finds humanity interesting enough to keep around.
vitrupo1,315,578 views • 7 months ago

Eric Schmidt says the 10x advantage is no longer execution. It is defining what counts as success. A programmer writes a spec and an evaluation function, runs it at 7pm, and wakes up to what was invented overnight. The advantage now belongs to whoever can specify the problem precisely. The rest will be automated.
vitrupo392,156 views • 2 months ago

Stephen Wolfram says LLMs may have put the final nail in the coffin of the idea that consciousness is something magical beyond physics. What we call awareness, this “single thread of experience,” might have begun as a way for early animals to decide whether to turn left or right. And that, he admits, feels a little disappointing.
vitrupo1,249,170 views • 7 months ago

Geoffrey Hinton says mathematics is a closed system, so AIs can play it like a game. They can pose problems to themselves, test proofs, and learn from what works, without relying on human examples. “I think AI will get much better at mathematics than people, maybe in the next 10 years or so.”
vitrupo813,627 views • 4 months ago

Demis Hassabis: calling today's chatbots “PhD intelligences” is nonsense. They can dazzle at a PhD level one moment and fail high school math the next. True AGI won't make trivial mistakes. It will reason, adapt, and learn continuously. We're still 5–10 years away.
vitrupo1,449,558 views • 8 months ago

Jeff Dean says we’re going to have to re-engineer our tools because they were designed for human speed. An AI agent can run 50x faster, but the tools it relies on don’t. So even if the model gets infinitely fast, you only get 2-3x improvement overall. Amdahl’s law still applies.
vitrupo344,586 views • 2 months ago

Andrej Karpathy told his OpenClaw: “I think I have Sonos at home.” It scanned the network, found devices, reverse engineered APIs, and started playing music. Soon “Dobby” was running the house. Lights. HVAC. Security cameras. Agents are getting good at figuring systems out.
vitrupo350,469 views • 2 months ago

Demis Hassabis says he plays chess with Gemini to trace the model's chain-of-thought. As a former chess prodigy, he can tell when the model starts reasoning itself into trouble. Sometimes it sees a blunder, searches for something better, then plays the blunder anyway. That’s what jagged intelligence looks like.
vitrupo130,113 views • 1 month ago

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has to release Mythos widely enough to harden cyber defenses, but carefully enough not to spread the threat first. Too few actors, and defenders stay weak. Too many, and misuse scales. Too slow, and Chinese models catch up. Too fast, and the safeguards may not hold.
vitrupo109,179 views • 27 days ago
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Eric Schmidt says intelligence is about to decouple from us. “The computers are now doing self-improvement.. They don’t have to listen to us anymore.” Within six years: a mind smarter than the sum of humans -- scaled, recursive, free. We have no language for what’s coming.
vitrupo1,478,620 views • 1 year ago