Here’s a thought. Let’s not empower the same group that brought us Sam Bankman-Fried “In a bombshell essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” Amodei argued that leading AI firms should commit to allowing “embedded third-party evaluators” from a nonprofit called Model Evaluation and Threat Research, or METR, that would maintain “employee-like access” to oversee safety efforts and ensure advanced AI models don’t turn Terminator and wipe out humanity.” “The would-be John Connors at METR purport to be fully independent, but the group traces its roots directly back to key figures in Effective Altruism, whose Silicon Valley-based devotees once included disgraced crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried, one of Anthropic’s biggest early investors." "The overlap between METR and Anthropic is rife with potential conflicts of interest, according to critics." "Christiano also served as one of the first five trustees of Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust." "When reached by phone, a METR official acknowledged that the nonprofit has a lot of overlap with Effective Altruism" "Since its founding, METR and its affiliates have received funding from EA kingpins like Democratic megadonor Dustin Moskovitz and Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn — both of whom are Anthropic investors." “Saying you want to be audited by the ‘independent’ people at METR is a complete joke,” said Perry Metzger, chairman of Alliance for the Future, a Washington, DC-based AI policy group. “It’s people who are funded by your buddies. It’s completely ridiculous."

The weird ideological extremists in the AI labs would rather you panic over AI turning us into paperclips than focus on the staggering inequality, global instability and environmental catastrophe that the next decade will bring.

2 months ago, the UK's Sovereign AI Fund announced that it was giving Odyssey taxpayer-funded compute. Today, Odyssey raised $310 million. Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think we should be diverting UK taxpayers' money to US-headquartered AI companies that can raise hundreds of millions of dollars and that therefore surely don't need a handout.

The completely unsubtle intertwining of Big Tech and US political power is supposed to intimidate the other nations. Smug tech leaders think they are untouchable. As usual with cartoon villains, they are absolutely setting the stage for their own defeat.

Excited to announce the release of TORAX, a tokamak transport simulator from our @GoogleDeepMind Fusion team! #fusionenergy - Open-source: github.com/google-deepmind/t… - Uses JAX: fast, differentiable - Easy coupling of ML-surrogates Hot off the press → arxiv.org/abs/2406.06718

Scientists from 120 countries have now used #AlphaFold Server to complete more than 620,000 jobs - to help test multiple hypotheses, predict complex interactions between proteins and DNA, and more. 🔬 Find out more in @Nature ↓ nature.com/nature/volumes/63…

Looking forward later today to the #Tribeca2024 premiere of The Thinking Game - a new documentary about the story of @GoogleDeepMind, AGI & AlphaFold, by Greg Kohs with music by Dan Deacon; it’s a sequel of sorts to the award-winning AlphaGo documentary tribecafilm.com/films/thinki…

"Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We're all still here."

🔭 Very happy to share @GoogleDeepMind's exploratory framework to ensure future powerful capabilities from frontier models are detected and mitigated. We're starting with an initial focus on Autonomy, Biosecurity, Cybersecurity, and Machine Learning R&D. 🚀storage.googleapis.com/deepm…

alphafold 3, human brain connectomics, med-gemini, amie, … i try not to think about competitors too much, but i cannot stop thinking about the aesthetic difference between using ai to solve deep, hard grand challenges in medicine & science and building waifus 🙃

Google just announced huge Gemini updates, a Sora competitor, AI agents, and more. The 12 most impressive announcements at Google I/O: 1. Project Astra: An AI agent that can see AND hear what you do live in real-time.

With its advanced reasoning capabilities, our prototype agent Project Astra was able to identify a number of famous faces in science - from just a few drawings. ✏️

OK... locating the lost glasses was enough for me! It's happening....

I'm at Google I/O right now as a guest, and this actually blew my mind, especially the "find my glasses part"... it means it has legit spatial understanding, right? Plus actual visual recognition and memory 😬 We are officially in the future.

We think of @GoogleDeepMind as the engine room of @Google in the AI era. Thrilled to share our vision at #GoogleIO incl the latest Gemini model 1.5 Flash, Project Astra our universal AI agent effort, our new gen video model Veo, Imagen 3 & lots more! deepmind.google/

Introducing Veo: our most capable generative video model. 🎥 It can create high-quality, 1080p clips that can go beyond 60 seconds. From photorealism to surrealism and animation, it can tackle a range of cinematic styles. 🧵 #GoogleIO

We’re sharing Project Astra: our new project focused on building a future AI assistant that can be truly helpful in everyday life. 🤝 Watch it in action, with two parts - each was captured in a single take, in real time. ↓ #GoogleIO

Super excited for my first #GoogleIO tomorrow and to share what we've been working on!

One more day until #GoogleIO! We’re feeling 🤩. See you tomorrow for the latest news about AI, Search and more.

RT @kevindstevens: The flip side of AI requiring a lot of power? Airlines are using it for automation and optimization. It saved Alaska…