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OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission — OpenAI had dropped its commitment to safety from its mission statement – along with a commitment to being “unconstrained” by a need to make money for investors.

Something Big Is Happening — The AI revolution is just getting started. The next decade will be transformative, and we are only beginning to understand the implications of this technology.

Why I’m not worried about AI job loss — Telling ordinary people that we’re in February 2020 and that there’s an avalanche on the way is incorrect on the merits: but it’s also, frankly speaking, a catastrophic mistake.

ai;dr — Growing up, typos and grammatical errors were a negative signal. Funnily enough, that's completely flipped for me. The less polished and coherent something is, the more value I assign to it.

Wabi-sabi — Reading the article above reminded me of the concept of wabi-sabi.

Meet the One Woman Anthropic Trusts to Teach AI Morals — she's developing Claude's understanding of itself so it won't be easily cowed, manipulated or led to view its identity as anything other than helpful and humane. Her job, simply put, is to teach Claude how to be good.

The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesday — I am aware this is unhinged. We're doing it anyway.

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts — The FDA has received reports involving dozens of other AI-enhanced devices, including a heart monitor said to have overlooked abnormal heartbeats and an ultrasound device that allegedly misidentified fetal body parts.

A 'Goldilocks' Effect for Online Teens? Moderate Social Media Users Fare Better Than Abstainers or Heavy Users — The data revealed "a U-shaped association," where both social media abstinence and heavy social media use were linked to poorer well-being while moderate social media use was linked to better well-being.

End Game Play — The ability to model the terminal state of AI does not mean the terminal state of AI is close.

Stop Using Icons in Data Tables — In our quest for "clean" and "minimalist" UI, we have stripped away the clarity of text and replaced it with a field of cryptic glyphs.

AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies It — Several participants noted that although they felt more productive, they did not feel less busy, and in some cases felt busier than before.

The shape of time — Gradually, the linear model of time gained ground, and thinkers literally began drawing time as a line.

John Cleese's Legendary 1991 Speech About Creativity — Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Where I'm at with AI — I've long held the belief that our job as software engineers is not to write code, but rather to solve problems.

How To Deconstruct Almost Anything — This is the story of one computer professional's explorations in the world of postmodern literary criticism.

We mourn our craft — as a senior, you could abstain. But then your junior colleagues will eventually code circles around you, because they're wearing bazooka-powered jetpacks and you're still riding around on a fixie bike.

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' — The problem with anthropomorphic descriptions is that they risk masking important limitations of probabilistic automation systems, which make them fundamentally different from human cognition.

Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty — How do we establish what we believe? And how can we be certain that what we believe is true? And how do we convince other people that it is true?