Reed Albergotti
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🔮 One potential reason floated to Semafor by market participants is that compute futures could be manipulated to show a sharp drop in the cost of older chips, which might destabilize AI stocks and debt markets.
🔮 The movie seems like an attempt to paint Altman and AI as villains, with lines like “Countries will fall.
🔮 Meta’s new AI assistant Muse could be the first experience a lot of people have with the power of AI that can actually do things for you, rather than just answer questions.
🔮 He could not immediately be reached for comment.
🔮 A calm read of Amodei’s proposal may lower your blood pressure.
🔮 When researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic this week and claimed there’s a good chance the company’s work will lead to human extinction, the world reacted with fear and outrage about AI — but most of the backlash conflates several issues, including data centers’ environmental costs, hacking, and AI’s impact on the job market.
🔮 But Dwarkesh’s civilizations will need to be a lot more powerful to conquer the world.
🔮 Consumer prices rose anyway, because without competition, Amazon could charge more in the long run.
🔮 Astra appears to do less of its thinking out loud, giving researchers little insight into whether it might be hiding something or planning something it shouldn’t.
🔮 I don’t have a lot of confidence that LLMs will get much better at writing, though.
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