We’re getting the social media crisis wrong

This post lays out some ideas that I’ve been thinking about for a long while. You should treat my claims with appropriate skepticism – I’m saying that a lot of public thinking and academic research about social media is chasing after the wrong target, on the...

The second bitter lesson – by Adam Elwood

With natural selection as the only general principle that relates to scaling out incentives, we need to be very careful to assume we can solve alignment with technical tricks. Instead, we must put in strong controls to keep intelligence closely tied to consciousness....

The Bitter Lesson

The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin. The ultimate reason for this is Moore’s law, or rather its generalization of continued...

35 New AI Roles to watch out for

Welcome to this wonderful new year with Work3! This week I’d like to start a new column that is focused on new job roles and skills that AI will be creating. Some are already existing, some are educated hypothesis, or even better – ideas and demands that should...

A quote from François Chollet

I don’t think people really appreciate how simple ARC-AGI-1 was, and what solving it really means. It was designed as the simplest, most basic assessment of fluid intelligence possible. Failure … I don’t think people really appreciate how simple ARC-AGI-1...