Dan
@dr.bsky.social
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When people fret that AIs will achieve superhuman general intelligence and take over, they neglect physical limits on technology. This essay by Dan Roberts is a reality check. LLMs may top out at GPT-7. Roberts is one of the physicists I feature in my new book about physics, AI, and neuroscience. 🧪
Black Holes and the Intelligence Explosion
Extreme scenarios of AI focus on what is logically possible rather than what is physically possible. What does physics have to say about AI risk?
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December 16, 2023 at 3:26 PM
When people fret that AIs will achieve superhuman general intelligence and take over, they neglect physical limits on technology. This essay by Dan Roberts is a reality check. LLMs may top out at GPT-7. Roberts is one of the physicists I feature in my new book about physics, AI, and neuroscience. 🧪
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In ongoing crossword news, @kmahowald.bsky.social and I proposed a panel with Kameron Austin Collins and Adrienne Raphel at SXSW! If you like puzzles and/or us, you can upvote here: https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/134394
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August 16, 2023 at 3:35 PM
In ongoing crossword news, @kmahowald.bsky.social and I proposed a panel with Kameron Austin Collins and Adrienne Raphel at SXSW! If you like puzzles and/or us, you can upvote here: https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/134394
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UT's press office wrote up a nice piece on and @kmahowald.bsky.social's and my work on crosswords!
https://lifeandletters.la.utexas.edu/2023/07/on-the-beauty-of-crosswords/
https://lifeandletters.la.utexas.edu/2023/07/on-the-beauty-of-crosswords/
On the Beauty of Crosswords
lifeandletters.la.utexas.edu
July 27, 2023 at 4:02 PM
UT's press office wrote up a nice piece on and @kmahowald.bsky.social's and my work on crosswords!
https://lifeandletters.la.utexas.edu/2023/07/on-the-beauty-of-crosswords/
https://lifeandletters.la.utexas.edu/2023/07/on-the-beauty-of-crosswords/
If I go there will my google maps experience improve?
May 22, 2023 at 7:58 PM
If I go there will my google maps experience improve?
Feynman was either very prophetic, or this page is wrong: https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/dirac-lectures?fbclid=IwAR29M2xhDCT4dp4DWRPKE28TqYEjrwjZT_ZWRTiaIBcWOvdZpZ8p_8-IPdA
May 17, 2023 at 1:30 AM
Feynman was either very prophetic, or this page is wrong: https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/dirac-lectures?fbclid=IwAR29M2xhDCT4dp4DWRPKE28TqYEjrwjZT_ZWRTiaIBcWOvdZpZ8p_8-IPdA
And thus, the kids everywhere realized that “cheating” with ChatGPT isn’t cool.
May 16, 2023 at 3:49 PM
And thus, the kids everywhere realized that “cheating” with ChatGPT isn’t cool.
A VC pitch for a new type of search engine
May 5, 2023 at 1:11 PM
A VC pitch for a new type of search engine
