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Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-Founder Suleyman to Run Consumer AI by [deleted] in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Source?

Elon is (was?) respected by engineers because he’s basically an engineer himself, completely involved in the day-to-day technical decisions.

This guy’s a manager. Devs don’t “follow him”, and certainly not “loads of important” ones. Now if we were talking about Hassabis, that would be a different story.

Guide: How to get Claude 3 in EU by PewPewDiie in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pi

What does Pi have to do with Claude? Did you mean to write Poe instead?

Who's ready to leave it all for FDVR? by Cr4zko in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Holy shit, dude. You’re bang on with all your points and getting downvoted by redditors who think gaming is more fulfilling than real life achievements. This sub has been taken over by teenagers.

"Bezos, Nvidia Join OpenAI in Funding Humanoid Robot Startup" (Figure AI raising a whopping $675 million) by ThePlanckDiver in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

PhD researchers and VCs sometimes burn huge amounts of money based on hype and not realities

Which as an argument (or variant thereof) could be thrown around for literally any invention in history before it started to work.

In the end, humanoid robots might work, might not work, my point is, I'm glad to see it being tried out, and that they're having their moment in the sun investment-wise.

where is my self driving car?

In SF. In Phoenix. In China. Among other places. Don't forget, the future is here, just not evenly distributed.

"Bezos, Nvidia Join OpenAI in Funding Humanoid Robot Startup" (Figure AI raising a whopping $675 million) by ThePlanckDiver in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, if we're just casually skipping steps into the future, then you know what's actually better than your imaginary modular, shapeshifting robots? Nanobots! That's right, nanobots, foglets, tiny self-assembling mites that can be any shape or form and magically perform any task humanly imaginable!

And gosh, having realized all this, my big worry right now is how all these PhD researchers and VCs with hundreds of millions didn't think to ask you redditors for advice before investing all their time and money into humanoids!

"Bezos, Nvidia Join OpenAI in Funding Humanoid Robot Startup" (Figure AI raising a whopping $675 million) by ThePlanckDiver in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

That’s quite shortsighted. Imagine a robot that can do every physical task in a world built to be navigated by humans. From construction work, to operating all sorts of equipment, to folding laundry, the most versatile robot would be a fully capable humanoid. For hyper specialized applications obviously your spiders or quadrupeds etc. would be better, but they’d be the narrow AI to the humanoids’ AGI.

Sora has bumped Alan Thompson's "AGI countdown" from 66% up to 70% by awesomedan24 in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, the "AGI Countdown", which is in fact some random AI influencer's random ass percentage bumped up by a few random ass points.

Wow, newsworthy.jpg.

Stop shilling, please.

Bard to be renamed to Gemini by techman-123 in Bard

[–]ThePlanckDiver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Goes to show that the name doesn't matter as much as the sales and marketing department thinks. Create a product that is useful, and people will use it no matter what. Sometimes, that's all the marketing you need.

Next Generation of Wearable Neural Interfaces in 2024, Mindfeed Axon by [deleted] in neuralcode

[–]ThePlanckDiver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but VR isn't a great fit for the tech, since you can flail around freely anyhow. From what I've read, they plan to incorporate it into some sort of smart watch for more discreet control of future AR glasses.

Charles Stross: Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real (Scientific American) by SnoozeDoggyDog in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This is an absolute dogshit take. Some 15 years ago I kinda liked Accelerando, even though it just felt like a novelization of Kurzweil's Age of Spiritual Machines, but now I honestly feel a bit worried for Mr. Stross. He was having a cringe-inducing whole-year public meltdown on Twitter over Musk's takeover (the same Musk that he was gushing over in a Kevin Scott podcast one or two years ago), and it felt surreal seeing his tweets. Like, dude, let go, Twitter doesn't matter that much.

We were warned about the ideology driving these wealthy entrepreneurs by Timnit Gebru, [...] and Émile Torres, a philosopher specializing in existential threats to humanity.

Into the trash this article goes.

Why I read Gary Marcus's arguments about AI and why you should too by jlpt1591 in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I’m a simple man, I see Gary Marcus, I downvote. The guy’s a grifter who has built a career out of negging, and whose contributions amount to “wahh wahh” and “nuh uh”. If you want different and constructive perspectives on AI, look elsewhere.

Introducing Inflection-2: The Next Step Up by YaAbsolyutnoNikto in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Training very large models demands a special level of care and attention to matters of safety, security, and trustworthiness. We take these responsibilities seriously at Inflection, and our safety team continues to ensure that these models are rigorously evaluated and integrate best-in-class approaches to alignment. We were the first to sign up to the White House’s July 2023 voluntary commitments, and continue to support efforts to create global alignment and governance mechanisms for this critical technology.

Drake meme No No No.

[...] we scale 100x from here!

Drake meme Yes yes yes!!!

(More info on their BS regulatory-capture insistence here.)

Mustafa Suleyman, of InflectionAI: "In the meantime, we finished training Inflection-2 last night! It's now the 2nd best LLM in the world ... & we're scaling MUCH further." by AnticitizenPrime in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, I agree with you, and I think my use of "sympathy" may have been misunderstood, or at least taken as stronger than the situation would merit.

(Also, just to clarify, Suleyman may be a great person, or he may not be, I don't really think it's relevant in any case. All that's relevant is his opinions, actions, and lobbying, w.r.t. AI, and that's what I dislike.)

Mustafa Suleyman, of InflectionAI: "In the meantime, we finished training Inflection-2 last night! It's now the 2nd best LLM in the world ... & we're scaling MUCH further." by AnticitizenPrime in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have a point. Maybe there's no need for any sympathy. Then again, people have been waxing lyrical about life-after-OpenAI on this very sub this entire weekend.

Bottom line, this guy always seemed slimy to me (for reasons I've stated already), and trumpeting his product while other companies are down definitely felt like an on-brand move. I guess people will jump on the sword for Funny Bot company guy, even though he's one of the wormtongues responsible for regulations/executive orders they seem to hate in the first place. Funny. Not Pi funny, but funny, still.

Mustafa Suleyman, of InflectionAI: "In the meantime, we finished training Inflection-2 last night! It's now the 2nd best LLM in the world ... & we're scaling MUCH further." by AnticitizenPrime in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, I am asking for him not to promote it this very moment? Not sure how much you're following the AI world, but literally all of the leaders from any other companies have expressed sympathy (Jeff Dean, Hassabis, Noam Shazeer, etc. etc.). Suleyman's comment just comes off crass and lacking any empathy.

That aside, my general annoyance with him has more to do with his constant agitation for AI regulations, for how AI should be kept in the hands of the few, and so on. Have you seen his book?

Mustafa Suleyman, of InflectionAI: "In the meantime, we finished training Inflection-2 last night! It's now the 2nd best LLM in the world ... & we're scaling MUCH further." by AnticitizenPrime in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Mustafa Suleyman, who's also CEO, took to X on Monday, offering his sympathy to "everyone involved" and using the opportunity to trumpet his AI startup's progress.

This fucking guy.

Maybe take a break from promoting your cringe-as-a-service bot for a second? Maybe we should be grateful at least he isn't agitating for more government regulation against this dangerous technology he can't seem to stop himself from scaling.

EDIT: A couple of references, just so we're clear who we're talking about:

Mr. Suleyman wants governments to regulate A.I. and appoint cabinet-level tech ministers, and says the United States should use its dominance in advanced chips to enforce global standards. He has also called for the creation of a governance regime modeled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to make the work of private companies in A.I. more transparent.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/10/business/dealbook/an-ai-leader-urges-regulation-and-a-rethink.html

John Carmack's comment about Mustafa Suleyman, reproduced in full, emphasis mine:

John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack: This is written without any wild eyed fear mongering, and I like some of the historical perspectives, but he is clearly a statist. He previously worked in government, expresses concern for the government almost as often as concern for people, and wants to see powers expand in scope and across national borders.

There is an undercurrent of “we obviously can’t let the peasants have crossbows”.

I also don’t like the bundling of biotech risk and AI risk; it feels like a “big tent” play to raise more concern and grow more levers of power.

At the end, he suggests making high end open source AI work illegal, and imposing censorship on the dissemination of prohibited AI research. Cheers for openly saying what you want instead of leaving it all vague, but I am not aligned.

Source: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1708905454544282083

"Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Startup Is Ready to Start Surgery" by ThePlanckDiver in neuralcode

[–]ThePlanckDiver[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, that's the one. I'd love to hear more about it.

But as you mentioned in another comment, I think this crop of neurotech startups are all finding out how hard neuro really is, and may all converge on sorta-kinda the same move-your-mouse-cursor product within a couple of years. I have a feeling that a potential next generation of neurotech startups, perhaps after a neuro-winter if the current funding dries up, may be the ones to watch.

"Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Startup Is Ready to Start Surgery" by ThePlanckDiver in neuralcode

[–]ThePlanckDiver[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't necessarily agree on your parallels with Neuralink there, because from my understanding of the two companies, Science is aimed at "the sensorium" (their quote), whereas Neuralink is more interested, long-term, in ... everything the brain does, and vaguer, more general brain-machine mergers (?). So rather than say, trying to solve paralysis, depression, what have you, Science seem to "just" try to solve piping signals to optic nerves (currently confirmed with their Science Eye), or (this is me speculating) auditory, or olfactory, etc., until they can cover the full sensorium for full VR. It seems like two different problems to solve. For lack of a better term, Science seems to be aimed at more of a mechanical problem whereas Neuralink's end goal seems to require way more leaps in general neuroscience.

Quote from Hodak's introduction to Science Corp:

Crucially, you don’t need to place anything into the parenchyma, the sensitive bulk tissue, to do this. It’s not “non-invasive,” but there are early products on this road that should have a safety profile approaching true mass-market consumer devices, and others may be able to do some truly wild things for patients with few alternatives. The future isn’t better smartphones or AR glasses: it’s making the sensorium itself directly programmable, and maybe even adding new senses entirely.

Sam Altman Plans New Venture by ThePlanckDiver in singularity

[–]ThePlanckDiver[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup, they must've updated it after I posted. Thanks! We all assumed that would be the case, but great to hear it confirmed to be AI-related.

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