On Advancing Global AI Governance
Artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes a general-purpose technology — perhaps one with transformative potential not seen since the Industrial Revolution. The technology’s power to spur both beneficial and harmful change is enormous. Now is the time to understand collective interests around…
AI PROMPT ENGINEERING IS DEAD
Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand at prompt engineering—finding a clever way to phrase their query to a large language model (LLM) or AI art or video generator to get the best results (or sidestep protections). The Internet is…
The AI Race: Why Current NeuralNetwork-based Architectures are a Poor Basis forArtificial General Intelligence
Abstract Artificial General Intelligence is the idea that someday an hypothetical agent will arisefrom artificial intelligence (AI) progresses, and will surpass by far the brightest and mostgifted human minds. This idea has been around since the early development of AI….
Forecasting transformative AI: what’s the burden of proof?
This is one of 4 posts summarizing hundreds of pages of technical reports focused almost entirely on forecasting one number: the year by which transformative AI will be developed.1 By “transformative AI,” I mean “AI powerful enough to bring us…