Lifeboat Foundation

AGI (or Artificial General Intelligence) is something (in my view) everyone should know about and think about.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), much like a sociopath, inherently shows no regard for right and wrong.

Human values need to be integrated into large language models. Can this be done democratically?

Good technologies disappear.

In the company’s cloud market study, almost all organizations say that security, reliability and disaster recovery are important considerations in their AI strategy. Also key is the need to manage and support AI workloads at scale. In the area of AI data rulings and regulation, many firms think that AI data governance requirements will force them to more comprehensively understand and track data sources, data age and other key data attributes.

“AI technologies will drive the need for new backup and data protection solutions,” said Debojyoti ‘Debo’ Dutta, vice president of engineering for AI at Nutanix. “[Many companies are] planning to add mission-critical, production-level data protection and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions to support AI data governance. Security professionals are racing to use AI-based solutions to improve threat and anomaly detection, prevention and recovery while bad actors race to use AI-based tools to create new malicious applications, improve success rates and attack surfaces, and improve detection avoidance.”

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In an all-hands video conference call to Cruise staff on Monday afternoon, General Motors CEO Mary Barra attempted to re-energize the staff of Cruise, GM’s on-edge autonomous vehicle subsidiary, after its CEO and chief product officers both resigned following several weeks of enormous setbacks for the company.

As OpenAI employees threaten a mass exodus in the wake of CEO Sam Altman’s ouster by the board of directors, some OpenAI customers are beginning to look for the exits.

Startups built on OpenAI’s technology are looking for new options after the boardroom coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman.

In a surprising turn of events, OpenAI’s board abruptly fired co-founder and CEO Sam Altman on Friday.

The chaos at OpenAI in response to CEO Sam Altman’s firing reveals the problematic influence of the Effective Altruism movement.

The original definition of the chosen word is to “seem to see, hear, feel, or smell” something that does not exist, usually because of “a health condition or because you have taken a drug”

The psychological verb gained an extra meaning in 2023 that ‘gets to the heart of why people are talking about artificial intelligence’

Sam Altman and the OpenAI board are now in talks for his possible return, specifically he’s speaking with Adam d’Angelo.

Sam Altman and members of the OpenAI board have opened negotiations aimed at a possible return of the ousted co-founder and chief executive officer to the artificial intelligence company, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Discussions are happening between Altman and at least one board member, Adam D’Angelo, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private and they may not come to fruition. The talks also involve some of OpenAI’s investors, many of whom are pushing for his reinstatement, one of the people said.

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A team of researchers at DeepMind focusing on the next frontier of artificial intelligence—Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—realized they needed to resolve one key issue first. What exactly, they asked, is AGI?

It is often viewed in general as a type of artificial intelligence that possesses the ability to understand, learn and apply knowledge across a broad range of tasks, operating like the human brain. Wikipedia broadens the scope by suggesting AGI is “a hypothetical type of intelligent agent [that] could learn to accomplish any intellectual task that human beings or animals can perform.”

OpenAI’s charter describes AGI as a set of “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.”