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Podcasts/YouTube/Op-Eds: Week Ending 06/07/2024

June 7, 2024

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Hi, AI: Our Thesis on AI Voice Agents | Andreessen Horowitz

https://a16z.com/ai-voice-agents

Situational Awareness
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be unleashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.

Click to access situationalawareness.pdf

“In an interview with The Verge, Zoom founder Eric Yuan said that ‘digital twin’ AI avatars will eventually attend Zoom meetings on the user’s behalf We’re headed into a strange world where everyone will have AI agents/avatars that communicate with other AI avatars/agents

In an interview with The Verge, Zoom founder Eric Yuan said that ‘digital twin’ AI avatars will eventually attend Zoom meetings on the user’s behalf

We're headed into a strange world where everyone will have AI agents/avatars that communicate with other AI avatars/agents pic.twitter.com/BScR8jS4nn
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) June 5, 2024

Leopold Aschenbrenner – 2027 AGI, China/US Super-Intelligence Race, & The Return of History – YouTube

The future of foundation models is closed-source
if the centralizing forces of data and compute hold, open and closed-source AI cannot both dominate long-term

https://blog.johnluttig.com/p/the-future-of-foundation-models-is

“Very, very happy to see this review of The AI Mirror from @FT today. Such a relief to have the first major review be this thoughtful, sharp and generous!

The AI Mirror — how technology blocks human potential

Shannon Vallor argues that the more power we cede to ‘giant mirrors of code’, the less we use our own practical wisdom

Very, very happy to see this review of The AI Mirror from @FT today. Such a relief to have the first major review be this thoughtful, sharp and generous!https://t.co/BGgXjsPkzk
— Shannon Vallor (@ShannonVallor) May 29, 2024

“Does AI Require a New OS? An OS is really three things and conflating them makes this impossible to answer. Separating them one can at least articulate a go-forward point of view: (1) Hardware interface and resource allocation. At the core an OS by any traditional measure is an”https://x.com/stevesi/status/1798471381056987492

This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #36: Week Ending 06/07/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 40 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.

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