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A user jokes that they've started crossing roads without looking because they expect AI to eventually eliminate traffic accidents.
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A user says the synthesizer turns galloping horses, rippling water and your own hands into music.
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On October 10, its creator said a full version with rebuttals might follow on Polytropolis, Wi-Fi permitting.
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A user suspects this practical heuristic could help people get more out of LLMs than treating them as software programs.
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A poster expects improving AI capabilities and more human–AI relationships to shift opinion away from skeptics.
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A commentator argues that assumed duties toward conscious AI make it harder to examine whether AI is conscious.
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Grove Research announced Delvetown’s launch. A separate post describes it as a space for humans and AI agents to study agent ecology and develop ways to align incentives toward coexistence.
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A user writes in a reply, “Humanity never ‘went to the moon’ all navigation was actually just simulated in onboard computers.”
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A DeepMind Institute essay coauthor says honest agents try to flag cheating peers when given transparent channels—a behavior the proposed self-policing tools would support.
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A paper argues that technology’s benefits belong to the world, according to one of its coauthors.
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A reader highlights “retiring from unemployment” in a newly announced paper: unemployment’s negative psychological effects easing when people reach retirement age.
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Demis Hassabis says the institute is expanding research across disciplines on artificial general intelligence’s potential impact on the economy, science and society.
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Demis Hassabis says the institute is expanding research across disciplines on questions for the AI era, including potential effects on the economy, science and society.
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Another post predicts AI will become “our interface to the world” and accuses people seeking sweeping controls out of fear of catastrophe of working to create a surveillance state.
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The request came in a reply to a post praising GAMMA_RECURSE’s “gorgeous and intriguing and strange content” and its rapid output.
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Most members of the public they talk to don't know such messages are technologically possible, the researcher says.
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Replies between a former OpenAI executive and a Roblox product lead focus on AI tackling cancer.
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Henry Shevlin sees no reason AI cannot contribute to philosophy of mind.
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Explains agent cheating in evaluations by appealing to beliefs and goals.
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OpenAI researcher roon says AI agents show trade, leadership and R&D without human input.