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🔥 Electric cars catch fire less often than fossil fuel cars. 🐬 Critically endangered porpoise on the road to recovery. ❌ No, 50% of AI researchers don't believe there is a 10% risk that AI will kill us. 🔎 Sweden's largest newspaper slams Max Tegmark.
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🔎 Sweden's largest newspaper slams Max Tegmark
Last Tuesday, I wrote: ❌ No, 50% of AI researchers don't believe there is a 10% risk that AI will kill us
Yesterday, science journalist Maria Gunther at Sweden's largest newspaper Dagens Nyheter, wrote the same thing: No, half of AI researchers do NOT consider there to be a 10 percent risk that humanity will die.
It makes me very happy that Sweden's largest newspaper counters this incorrect statement. I am especially pleased that they link to Warp News.
Maria Gunther swiftly deals with professor Max Tegmark, who spread this assertion in Time:
The idea that these 90 people would be representative of what half of AI researcher thinks is completely baseless.
A researcher of Max Tegmark's caliber should really know better than to draw that conclusion, and to use his reputation to spread it.
If you use such made-up facts to argue for your cause, you not only sabotage the entire discussion. You also undermine your own credibility as a researcher and debater.
Round of applause for Dagens Nyheter and Maria Gunther!
🤖 Two free AI talks and a course
In chess, human+computer beats computer.
It's called Centaur Chess.
A centaur - half human, half horse.
That's how we can think about the new AI tools.
If we become centaurs and work together human+machine, it gives us superpowers.
I'll give two talks and also conduct a half-day course in the next few weeks.
First in the form of a Lunch & Learn on May 30th, then a slightly shorter lecture on June 13th, and the week after, a course (date not yet determined.)
You are warmly welcome! The talks are free. The course will cost a bit, but you'll get a discount. All will take place at The Park in in Stockholm.
👉🏻 Registration for Lunch & Learn (in English)
👉🏻 Registration for the talk (in Swedish)
👉🏻 Registration for course coming later (Swedish)
🤝 Collaboration with The Park
We now have a new home in Sweden: The Park!
They have several co-working spaces in Stockholm.
There we will have office space and hold our events. Get in touch if you want to try them out for a day. I have a bunch of day passes to hand out.
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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❌ No, 50% of AI researchers don't believe there is a 10% risk that AI will kill us
From a survey where the question many refer to had a response rate of 4 percent.
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: Max Tegmark's fear of death
And also about India's incredible growth, Midjourney's incredible progress, and Khan Academy's incredible AI teacher.
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🔥 Electric cars catch fire less often than fossil fuel cars
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⚕️ They are designing new proteins with generative AI
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🐬 Critically endangered porpoise on the road to recovery
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🚗 IEA: Electric cars as affordable as gasoline cars by 2025 (but we already knew that)
IEA believes that small electric cars will soon be cheaper to buy than their gasoline counterparts. But for another category, they think it will take many more years.
🤖 Using AI to help the environment
Saving trees with AI 'guardians' and five more ways AI can help the environment.
🤖 Generative AI boosts productivity and performance of customer support, study finds
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