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Interview with Mark J Silverman

Mark J Silverman. Podcast interview with Alan D. Thompson. August, 2020.

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Reports by LifeArchitect.ai (recent)

What's in GPT-5? (Aug/2024)
Mid-2024 AI retrospective
The psychology of modern LLMs (2024)
Google DeepMind Gemini: A general specialist
Integrated AI: Endgame (Jul/2023)
The ChatGPT Prompt Book (Dec/2022)
Google Pathways (Aug/2022)
Roadmap: AI’s next big steps in the world (Jul/2022)
What's in my AI? (Mar/2022)

Videos by LifeArchitect.ai (recent)

AI reports by Dr Thompson
 Cited: NBER AI report for US Govt
Dataset quality vs quantity via bonum
Endgame
Gemini: A general specialist
Google Pathways: An Exploration…
The new irrelevance of intelligence (2020) The ChatGPT Prompt Book
The Gap: Waiting for the AI time lag
The psychology of modern LLMs (2024)
The rising tide lifting all boats
Roadmap: AI’s next big steps…
Use cases for large language models…
What’s in my AI? Analysis of Datasets…

AI models
 Large language models
Amazon Olympus
Amazon Titan
Anthropic RL-CAI 52B
Apple LLMs
Argonne AuroraGPT (ScienceGPT)
BAAI Wudao 2.0
Baidu ERNIE
Chinchilla scaling laws
DeepMind Sparrow
Fudan MOSS
Google Bard
Google DeepMind Gemini
Microsoft Bing Chat (Sydney)
NVIDIA Megatron
OpenAI GPT-3, ChatGPT, GPT-4
OpenAI o1, GPT-4.5, GPT-5, GPT-6
Snapchat My AI

Annual AI retrospectives
 The sky is quickening (mid-2024 AI)
The sky is comforting (2023 AI)
The sky is entrancing (mid-2023 AI)
The sky is infinite (2022 AI retrospective)
The sky is bigger… (mid-2022 AI)
The sky is on fire (2021 AI retrospective)

AI overview
 AI Consciousness & AI Bill of Rights
BASIS: Artificial Superintelligence Suite
AI + Six Thinking Hats
Humanoid robots ready for LLMs
The AI Alignment Problem
AI: The Great Flood
GPT-3.5 and Raven’s
Talk to GPT
AI report card
AI + IQ testing
Life-changing AI
Books written by AI
AI art
AI + the human brain
AI + BMIs
Learn more about AI

AI video
 Leta AI (2021)
Una AI
GPT-3 vs IBM Watson
Aurora AI
Zhibing Hua AI (China)

AI theory
 Distractions (by Claude 3.5 Sonnet)
AGI achieved internally: A re-written story
The Who Moved My Cheese? AI awards!
Mocking AI panic
Arguments about AI
Why does AI make you so angry?
AI + economics
AI + ethics
AI + prompt crafting
AI + spirituality
AI papers
Quotes about AI
Minsky, Kurzweil, Sutskever, Leahy, Sergey
AI definitions
Get The Memo (w/ MIT, Meta, IBM, Tesla)

AI media releases
 AGI is here. Leaders guilty of negligence
Alan talks to ABC
AI is outperforming humans
AI fire alarm
AI sound bites

Living documents
 Models Table
Datasets Table
Compute Table (new tab)
Humanoids Table (new tab)
Alan’s conservative countdown to AGI
Timeline of AI and language models
Alan’s technical highlights (new tab)


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