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The idea that robots will be the best surgeons on earth anytime soon is absurd, and I challenged him about it on X:
Why did I bother to offer such a bet? Here are three reasons.
First, abstracting from all the words in my long analysis on OpenAI Astra yesterday, the overall point was that Astra may not be the breakthrough that OpenAI wants you to think it was. I expressed concerns about how little they revealed abo...
Astra, a new model that OpenAI is testing internally, is amazing. No denying that:
But at the same time, a whole raft of people, some fairly prominent, are running around making a deeply flawed argument about...
Here’s their latest apologia, as posted on X:
You can read the full report here.
Now for the reactions (the middle one is mine).
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The careful attention to language and social responsibility award goes to the prominent and increasingly...
No time today to cover all this in depth, and I might have missed one, but make sure to check out:
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Scientist, author and entrepreneur, known as a leading voice in AI. Six books including The Algebraic Mind, Rebooting AI, and Taming Silicon Valley; NYU Professor Emeritus.
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