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Intelligence Explosion — Part 2/3

Hallucination!

Can “hallucinations” generate an alternate world, prophesying falsehood?

As I write this article, NVIDIA(• is surpassing Wall Street’s expectations. The company, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, has just joined the exclusive club of only five companies in the world valued at over a trillion dollars [Apple (2.7T), Microsoft (2.4T), Saudi Aramco (2T), Alphabet/Google (1.5T), and Amazon (1.2T)], as its shares rose nearly 25% in a single day! A clear sign of how the widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can dramatically reshape the technology sector.

Intel has announced an ambitious plan to develop scientific generative AIs designed with one trillion parameters. These models will be trained on various types of data, including general texts, code, and scientific information. In comparison, OpenAI’s GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters (the size of GPT-4 has not yet been disclosed by OpenAI). The semiconductor company’s main focus is to apply these AIs in the study of areas such as biology, medicine, climate, cosmology, chemistry, and the development of new materials. To achieve this goal, Intel plans to launch a new supercomputer called Aurora, with processing capacity exceeding two EXAFLOPS(*•, later this year.

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The evidence we are living in a Simulation is everywhere. All you have to do is look

PROOF THAT EVERYTHING — IS A SIMULATION (Including God)

Is this reality? Well, we’re experiencing… something right now so maybe the better question is: *what* is reality?

Could everything we see, everything we experience, everything that exists in our entire universe — be artificial?

Supporters of Simulation Theory believe that not only is it *possible* that we’re living in a simulation; it’s likely.

And the more we look for evidence, the more we find.

Philip K Dick believed deja vu was the simulation adjusting to new code. Many people experience The Mandela Effect, a or “false memory” shared by a large number of people.

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Artificial Intelligence, Democracy, & the Future of Civilization

What does the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) look like and how will it impact democracy and society?

This question was explored by Prof. Yoshua Bengio, pioneer AI developer and Turing Award winner, and Prof. Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author and historian – in a live discussion moderated by political journalist Vassy Kapelos.

Recorded on May 24 2023, as part of the C2 Montreal conference, presented by Mila — Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. Professor Yoshua Bengio is recognized as one of the leading pioneers in AI research and development — known for his prestigious work in the field of deep learning.

GoatFury’s FutureScape

Interested in thinking about how AI and accelerating technological change is changing our way of life? I talk about stuff like that every day:

http://goatfury.substack.com.

Join me to stand against the ever-shorter attention spans that modern social media encourages. Let’s think together.

A 30,000 foot view of how the world is changing today, especially with regard to rapid technological progress. Where’s this bringing us? Click to read GoatFury’s FutureScape, by Andrew Smith, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.

Google’s AI-powered search experience is way too slow

The worst thing about Google’s new AI-powered search experience is how long you have to wait. Can you think of the last time you waited for a Google Search result? For me, searches are generally instant. You type a thing in the search box, Google almost immediately spits out an answer to that thing, and then you can click some links to learn more about what you searched for or type something else into the box. It’s a virtuous, useful cycle that has turned Google Search into the most visited website in the world.

Google’s Search Generative Experience, on the other hand, has loading animations.

Let me back up a little.

I’d rather scroll down to the list of links.

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