Important Takeaways:
- “Although some industries will change very little, scientific progress will likely be much faster than it is today; this impact of AGI may surpass everything else,” he noted
- “The price of many goods will eventually fall dramatically (right now, the cost of intelligence and the cost of energy constrain a lot of things), and the price of luxury goods and a few inherently limited resources like land may rise even more dramatically,” he wrote.
- “AI will seep into all areas of the economy and society; we will expect everything to be smart. Many of us expect to need to give people more control over the technology than we have historically, including open-sourcing more, and accept that there is a balance between safety and individual empowerment that will require trade-offs,” he wrote.
- “While we never want to be reckless and there will likely be some major decisions and limitations related to AGI safety that will be unpopular, directionally, as we get closer to achieving AGI, we believe that trending more towards individual empowerment is important; the other likely path we can see is AI being used by authoritarian governments to control their population through mass surveillance and loss of autonomy.”
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Important Takeaways:
- President Donald Trump has announced a new artificial intelligence company called Stargate, which will be a collaboration between some leading U.S. tech figures.
- Trump used his first full day in office to announce the $100 billion project alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, signifying Trump’s close relationship with Big Tech.
- What Is Stargate?
- Stargate is a new project designed to maintain the U.S. as the global leader in artificial intelligence. Backed by a $500 billion investment over four years, Stargate plans to build AI infrastructure across the U.S., creating thousands of new jobs and doubling down on American advantages in AI development.
- With $100 billion already set for immediate deployment, the project will focus on re-industrializing the U.S. while enhancing national security and developing transformative AI technologies.
- The project will be based in Texas, where the construction of 10 new data centers has already begun.
- Stargate will prioritize AI advancements in industries such as healthcare, where the technology could revolutionize patient care through improved diagnostics, earlier disease detection and even potential cancer vaccinations.
- Who Is Part of Stargate?
- Stargate is a collaborative effort between some of the most prominent global players in technology and investment.
- The initiative consists of top U.S. tech companies, including SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX.
- Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank, will serve as Stargate’s chairman.
- Key technology partners in the project include Arm, Microsoft and NVIDIA, all of whom will contribute to designing and operating the computing systems needed to maintain AI infrastructure.
- Altman emphasized the significance of Stargate, calling it “the most important thing we do in this era”
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Important Takeaways:
- Behold, the Orb: I can’t stop thinking about Sam Altman’s dystopian eyeball-scanning device
- You might think sobbing at a sold-out showing of the “Barbie” movie last weekend was enough proof you’re human. In 2023, people are also apparently getting their retinas scanned by shining chrome orbs to prove it.
- And yes, there are pictures.
- That’s because OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman trumpeted Worldcoin’s launch on Monday, an effort he co-founded years earlier with Alex Blania to “enable universal access to the global economy,” according to its website.
- The orbs, shiny sculptural spheres that scan the eyeballs of new members, seem to have become the company’s dystopian symbol. They help to provide users with “World IDs,” records proving a person signing up is human and not AI, with the goal of moving through the internet more easily and accessing digital currency, according to the company.
- Misgivings or not, some two million people have signed up already, according to Worldcoin, which has articulated a goal to address economic inequality through AI. (The company says it plans to give out a “new digital token freely to billions of people.”).
- It’s not clear yet if the tech can solve yet another complex, systemic problem in the blink of an eye. But the orbs are here now, beckoning to us all.
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