The top leaders in AI have very lofty expectations for the future of artificial intelligence. “By 2026 or 2027, we will have AI systems that are broadly better than almost all humans at almost all things,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said earlier this year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Elon Musk posited […]
Microsoft AI Chief Warns Pursuing Machine Consciousness Is a Gigantic Waste of Time
Head of Microsoft’s AI division Mustafa Suleyman thinks that AI developers and researchers should stop trying to build conscious AI. “I don’t think that is work that people should be doing,” Suleyman told CNBC in an interview last week. Suleyman thinks that while AI can definitely get smart enough to reach some form of superintelligence, […]
No Amount of Money Can Make People Want to Work for Zuck
How much would you have to get paid to spend any amount of time with Mark Zuckerberg? For some of the folks who have joined Meta’s AI team, millions of dollars simply is not enough. According to a new report from the Financial Times, the Meta AI lab is such a mess (and presumably, Zuck […]