One of the biggest problems I have personally struggled with is how to talk about AI safety without coming off as a madman. To the uninitiated this community comes off like a cult. I've heard it called the rapture of the nerds. Yet AI Safety is also reasonable. It is based on rationality. Even the extreme proposition …

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TLDR: Combine Gattica, WALL-E, Blade Runner, and Her WARNING: Contains mild spoilers. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro touches on the nature of emotion, cognition, loss and loneliness all under the backdrop of a futuristic society. Ishiguro articulates a future where artificial intelligence augments or replaces the …

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This is some scratchpadding that happened after talking with a friend of mine which I'm making public because why not? (Famous last words.). This is a fantasy league document (think Etz, the fantasy AI lab) and shouldn't be taken seriously. The future of healthcare relies on a few foundational technologies. These …

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A colleague of mine mentioned the term "public health intelligence". I rather like it. I interpret this term to mean: the practice of intelligence toward the reduction of pandemic risk and the improvement of public and individual health. Throughout tens and thousands of years of human history, a nation, a …

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In the beginning there was nothing. And God spoke into the void: Let there be light! And there was light. What language did God speak? What was the first language ever spoken? In Jewish tradition, God's will is expressed through language. God spoke the entire Cosmos into existence. The nothing that predated reality was …

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There is no such thing as biology. There is no such thing as chemistry. There is no such thing as physics. Biology is just a word that humans invented so that they can say they are "biologists" on their resume and get jobs as "biologists". Underlying all of science is mathematics. Underlying all …

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I have a two year old. Like most two year olds she is in a stage of development where she picks up words like crazy. It's interesting as a person involved with machine learning to observe how she learns things. You can point at a sponge, an object she's never obviously never seen before and say "this is a …

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence in non-biological form. That seems easy enough, but intelligence itself is what is hard to define. Intelligence includes the ability to plan, problem solve, and apply pattern recognition. This form of intelligence is shared by many lifeforms on this planet. Even the common …

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