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☆ Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism
  + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Kevin Roose | More About Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
labs and safety research organizations contain some trace of effective altruism’s influence, and many count believers among their staff members. Some Anthropic staff members use E.A.-inflected jargon — talking about concepts like “x-risk” and memes like the A.I. (Just one example: Ms. Amodei is married to Holden Karnofsky, the co-chief executive of Open Philanthropy, an E.A. Open Philanthropy, in turn, gets most of its funding from Mr. Moskovitz, who also invested personally in Anthropic.) safety was genuine, in part because its leaders had sounded the alarm about the technology for so long.
Persons: E.A.s, Dustin Moskovitz, Jaan, Anthropic, Sam Bankman, Fried, Bankman, Amodei, Shoggoth, Holden Karnofsky, Luke Muehlhauser, Moskovitz Organizations: Facebook, Skype, Open Locations: E.A, Jaan Tallinn, Anthropic
☆ The world's top H.P. Lovecraft expert weighs in on a monstrous viral meme in the A.I. world
  + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Mike Calia | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Lovecraft's novella "At the Mountains of Madness" — aren't quite perfect, according to the world's leading Lovecraft scholar, S.T. "While I'm sure Lovecraft would be grateful (and amused) by the application of his creation to AI, the parallels are not very exact," Joshi wrote. Read more: How to talk about AI like an insiderFirst of all, it's "shoggoth," not "Shoggoth," Joshi said. "It is a species name, not a proper name," Joshi wrote in an email to CNBC. For instance, a recent fake Toronto Blue Jays ad, created by a TSN producer who used text-to-video AI tech, is packed with horrifying images such as people feasting on each other's hot dog tentacles.
Persons: H.P, S.T, Joshi, Lovecraft, it's Joshi, He's, Kevin Roose, Roose, Harlan Ellison's Organizations: Lovecraft, Providence, The New York Times, CNBC, Times, Workers, Toronto Blue Jays, TSN Locations: A.I, Antarctica
☆ Why an Octopus-like Creature Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I.
  + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
executive in San Francisco, I spotted a strange sticker on his laptop. The sticker depicted a cartoon of a menacing, octopus-like creature with many eyes and a yellow smiley-face attached to one of its tentacles. Forget about chatbots and compute clusters — I needed to know everything about the Shoggoth, what it meant and why people in the A.I. The executive explained that the Shoggoth had become a popular reference among workers in artificial intelligence, as a vivid visual metaphor for how a large language model (the type of A.I. system that powers ChatGPT and other chatbots) actually works.
Persons: ”, “, ChatGPT Locations: San Francisco, A.I
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