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  • Similarly there is Goldman Sachs Global Institute: https://www.goldmansachs.com/what-we-do/goldman-sachs-global...
    by vismit2000
  • > Bold thinking on AGI from the lab that pioneered the field.

    The best part of technology: the people who brought you the "disruption" are the ones who promise you they have the solution to all the problems it caused.

    by ElProlactin
  • I wonder if they could make the font even greyer on that website. MORE GREY because I am still able to read it (bearly).
    by ACV001
  • Crazy that these labs keep throwing around entirely unsubstantiated claims like "AGI is right around the corner". Given the enormity of the problem I'd argue we're not really any closer than a decade ago, especially given LLM shortcomings.
    by totallygeeky
  • They are simply looking to steer AI policy discussions. It's basically an in-house think tank. It has all the trappings, especially with ominous prognostications like:

      Today’s AI systems have impressive capabilities and the rapid pace of innovation suggests we’re now approaching artificial general intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain.
    Not sure we are anywhere close to all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain... not even a severely lobotomized one.
    by nsagent
  • Does anyone have any idea why most of today’s top links are submitted by the same account, one that is 11 days old?
    by etrvic
  • Their economic policy article is quite good:

    - need for faster, better and more accurate measurements of the things we care about

    - 3 scenarios of impact ranging from mild to major disruption

    - mild policies are all sensible, like expanded unemployment insurance and Earned Income Tax Credit

    - major disruption policies are also pretty logical, emphasizing owning a share of the profits of AI

    - AI evaluators to sort and weigh the policies for their effectiveness

    It looks like to me a lot of thinking, research, and work put into the piece.

    I know people will gripe at using AI evaluators to score and weigh policies for effectiveness but if you read any amount of research papers, they do researcher evaluated scoring, which translates to "me, a 26 year old PHD candidate who hasn't held a job yet, and my roommate who stayed up all night with me to tell me his vibes on the subject".

    It is IMO wrong and lazy to dismiss these pieces as being the same level as Dario or Sam's blog posts / speeches / call to actions, these are actual research papers.

    by spyckie2

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