an mc escher sketch of a recursive robot –ar 5:3

“The new CEO of Microsoft AI, @MustafaSuleyman, with a $100B budget at TED: “AI is a new digital species.” “To avoid existential risk, we should avoid: 1) Autonomy 2) Recursive self-improvement 3) Self-replication We have a good 5 to 10 years before we’ll have to confront this.”  https://twitter.com/FutureJurvetson/status/1782201734158524435

“When is LLMs’ #AlphaGOZero moment? Imagine #LLMs self-evolving without human supervision 🔥🔥🔥 Through #selfplay in an adversarial language game 🕹️, we observe continuous improvements in LLM reasoning 🚀. #AGI is getting closer! Check our paper at  https://twitter.com/cheng_pengyu/status/1780965366531006887

“At this point I feel like we understand pretty well what’s going on with LLMs: – Outputs are roughly equivalent to kernel smoothing over positional embeddings ( https://twitter.com/martin_casado/status/1782094516335550480 

“This OpenAI employee who claimed that GPT-5 is sentient, alive and an alien is gone from X! Did the AI get annoyed and delete him? Did he join Ilya in the basement?! 😱😱 The mystery deepens….  https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1783847600824995850 

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AI News #30: Week Ending 04/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 39 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Mobile
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/
• AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/

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