Founder and Host of Disruptor Confessions with John Ayers

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I asked swarm scientist Dr. @icouzin if anyone from the AI industry had reached out to him. "Not to my knowledge." AI labs keep warning about swarms. The people who study them are waiting by the phone. Full episode drops Tuesday, Oct 20. #DisruptorConfessions
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Labs are planning for the “day after” a catastrophic AI event, per Axios. Unnamed insiders expect one within 6 to 12 months. OpenAI says it is not inevitable. Same week, OpenAI pulled three math papers within a day of posting hundreds. Who checks the work? Follow @DisruptConfess DISRUPTOR CONFESSIONS: Substack, YouTube, Podcasts Watch | Subscribe | Share
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𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆? OVER HYPED? AI Safety is over hyped and you don’t see much of an issue. UNDER HYPED? AI Safety is under hyped and you are very concerned. @sama @elonmusk @demishassabis @Yoshua_Bengio @DarioAmodei @geoffreyhinton @tristanharris @BillGates @JeffBezos @mustafasuleyman
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu fears humanity could enter a new era if artificial general intelligence, or AGI, surpasses even the “very best humans in every field.” “We've never had something like that where most of us feel we're dispensable,” he says.
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Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines An insightful and important conversation with @STurkle youtu.be/_y1cG9huTHc?si=Nwan…
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Deadline tonight! Take your last opportunity to enter for a chance to see @Lin_Manuel, Paul Rudd, @jimmyfallon and more belt their hearts out for a great cause. bit.ly/win-karaoke
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"𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐀 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇" The AI Chat Bot characterized MIT's Dr Sherry Turkle: you write about ideas with too much passion - and don't keep the intellectual and the emotional in separate boxes. "it was as though the community that is making these chatbots are sort of engineer guys who don't like emotional women." Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines Now streaming on YouTube and Podcasts. youtu.be/_y1cG9huTHc?si=xjLR… ________________________ Watch | Subscribe | Share
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Replying to @STurkle
@STurkle joins @DisruptConfess Social media came for our attention. Artificial intelligence is coming for our attachment. youtu.be/_y1cG9huTHc?si=xWyf… @littlebrown @HachetteUS @HachetteBooks
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@BenAffleck - I would be interested in what you think of this discussion with Dr Louis Rosenberg - youtu.be/TMyqOKa0PI8?si=d7x9…
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Glad they spent a lot of time drafting this Accord. disruptorconfessions.substac…
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@finkd I do hope you take the time to sit down with @ezraklein @tristanharris @karaswisher @AC360 or others to have a candid conversation about what you see as the current state and the future state of @Meta and humanity.
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𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮. @finkd Muse is out - aimed at kids, from the guy who ran the largest attention-mining experiment on teenagers in history. And he's not alone: @Apple @Google @amazon @Samsung are all building the same thing. 🎙️ Dr. @LouisBRosenberg on Wearables, Privacy, Manipulation and AI Swarms. youtu.be/TMyqOKa0PI8?si=gx_i…
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