New essay from @peligrietzer: What follows for AI alignment if we take the concept of eudaimonia — active, rational human flourishing — seriously?

What do disembodied notions of AGI miss? @superspeeg writes: “Instead of trying to glue modalities together into a patchwork AGI, we should pursue approaches to intelligence that treat embodiment and interaction with the environment as primary, and see modality-centered processing as emergent phenomena.”

We hear a lot about “beneficial AI” or AI “aligned with human values” — but what does this mean and how do we get there? @joelbot3000 and @manda_ngo write: thegradient.pub/we-need-posi…

🎙️ How do the statistics and ML communities differ? What does current research in trend filtering and conformal prediction look like? @spaniel_bashir speaks with Professor Ryan Tibshirani.

How can we measure and compare the environmental impacts from modern ML systems? Do "moral benchmarks" make any sense? @spaniel_bashir speaks with @SashaMTL.

🎙️ What does an AI-powered email client look like? @spaniel_bashir speaks with @startupandrew.

🎙️ How can data engines be used to improve model performance? @spaniel_bashir speaks with @goldenkatepark, Director of Product at @scale_AI.

🎙️ How is ML used in quantitative trading and investing? How can we effectively use data to impact public policy? @spaniel_bashir speaks with Ben Wellington.

🎙️ Will our current monolithic scaling paradigm run into a brick wall? Why are protocols important for future AI advances? @spaniel_bashir speaks with Venkatesh Rao @vgr.

🎙️ What is the state of research on alternative architectures to the transformer? How do NLP researchers think about efficiency techniques? @spaniel_bashir speaks with @srush_nlp.

🎙️ How should we think about the study of LLMs as a way to understand human language processing and as artifacts of their own? What would it mean for an LLM to have theory of mind? @spaniel_bashir speaks with @camrobjones and @Sean_Trott.