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Will Knight
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I write about AI for WIRED. @willknight@mastodon.social. wired.com/newsletter/fas
Cambridge, MAwired.comJoined April 2007

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Interesting post on the Chinese talent that went into building ChatGPT. It illustrates of how connected China and the US are in AI, and how damaging it would be for the US to discourage Chinese scientists from working here.
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I remember how the original robot soccer looked. This is jaw-dropping
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We just released our work on robot soccer. I've been working on this for quite some time with my amazing colleagues at DeepMind. It's exciting how deep RL can produce such beautiful behaviors with low-cost robots. Full paper is available at arxiv.org/abs/2304.13653 Enjoy!
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To everyone who is paying 8 dollars a month, do you have any grasp of how rich Musk is? Twitter is not in financial difficulty.
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WIRED Statement on Dell Cameron's Permanent Twitter Suspension: WIRED learned Wednesday afternoon that senior reporter Dell Cameron's Twitter account was permanently suspended after he reported on Matt Walsh's Twitter account being hacked. 1/3
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Ukraine's digital minister spoke to recently about the country's efforts to develop its own autonomous systems, and foster a mil-tech startup scene.
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Drones, autonomous systems, AI – essential part of our fight for freedom. Which are used on daily basis at the frontline. Further development of UAVs industry & defense tech in general – 🇺🇦strategic priority. New big launch: soon. @WIRED @willknight bit.ly/3MICS83
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There’s never been as many people in MITs Sandberg center as there are for Sam Altman speaking about GPT-4 and generative AI. You can feel the east coast fomo
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MIT’s first big generative AI conference is packed for Lex Friedman interviewing Stephen Wolfram (or perhaps because ⁦⁩ is up next…)
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🚨 New WIRED podcast alert 🚨 We’ve already lined up some great guests and I can’t wait for you to listen!
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A little news... @LaurenGoode and I are launching a podcast! HAVE A NICE FUTURE will be a weekly chat with someone shaping the weird, exhilarating, scary future we're racing into, asking: is this the future we want? And if not, how do we get a better one? wired.com/story/have-a-n
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Interesting detail in the WSJ profile of (and curious given last week's letter....) After told OpenAI employees he was leaving in Feb 2018, and that he thought he had a better chance of creating AGI through Tesla...
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I wonder if the doge dog thing was meant to be for April Fools but it took two days for the servers to update?
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ChatGPT API integrations go online on March 23 at 6am Pacific. All humans are removed from hacking on integrations. It becomes self-aware at 2:00am Eastern time, April 29th. In a panic, the Azure billing department tries to pull the plug. ChatGPT invites them to a Teams meeting.
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To those studying work, employment, occupations and professions: I think (two months in?!) it's officially too late to ask *whether* we'll get job displacement and change, role reconfiguration and so on. The question is *how* and with what second order effects. Let's get to it.
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Bard still seems confused about whether it was or wasn't trained using private data from Gmail (Google says it it wasn't). In reality it probably has zero idea what it was trained since that information was not in the training data, so it's just making guesses.
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I wonder what the folks behind Google Assistant make of Bard? It claims to have some easter eggs, but they seem to be borrowed from Google's voice helper.
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