Rohit Krishnan: “We can now make some assumptions about this new world of AGI, to see what the resource requirements would be like. For instance, as we’re moving towards the world of autonomous agents, a major change is likely to be that they could be used for long range planning, to be used as “employees”, instead of just “tools”.”
Demis Hassabis: “The models today are pretty capable, but there are still some missing attributes: things like reasoning, hierarchical planning, long-term memory. There’s quite a few capabilities that the current systems don’t have. They’re also not consistent across the board. They’re very strong in some things, but they’re still surprisingly weak and flawed in other areas. You’d want an AGI to have pretty consistent, robust behavior across the board for all cognitive tasks. One thing that’s clearly missing, and I always had as a benchmark for AGI, was the ability for these systems to invent their own hypotheses or conjectures about science, not just prove existing ones. They can play a game of Go at a world champion level. But could a system invent Go? Could it come up with relativity back in the days that Einstein did with the information that he had? I think today’s systems are still pretty far away from having that kind of creative, inventive capability.”
Nicolai Tangen: “It’s a winner takes it all in everything you see. You see it in music. More people listen to Taylor Swift than jazz and classical music combined. You see it in sports. If you’re a good football player, you make a lot more money than everybody else. It’s the same in stock markets. It’s more pronounced in technology because of the platform structure. You are on Facebook because everybody else is on Facebook, right? That way, you manage to increase critical mass like an Uber, Airbnb and the FAANG companies. Finally, in AI, it’s even more extreme because it’s so expensive to develop these models.”
NYTimes: “Sleeping in for 30 minutes or so on Saturday morning is generally no cause for concern, experts said. But if you’re sleeping in for hours every weekend, it is likely a sign that you’re not getting enough rest during the week, said Dr. Thomas Kilkenny, director of the Sleep Institute at Northwell Staten Island University Hospital. If you thrive on seven hours of sleep, but get only about six hours Monday through Friday, for instance, you’ve missed out on nearly an entire night of sleep once Saturday arrives, Dr. Kilkenny said. This is what experts call “sleep debt,” he added.”
WSJ: “Like the looping arc of a boomerang, boomeraskers ask a question, let their counterpart answer and then immediately bring the focus of the conversation back to themselves. They try to achieve two conflicting goals at once: to show interest in their partner and to disclose something about themselves. But they fall short of achieving either goal.”
