Posts by KMO
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I talk about my day job, something which I've resolved only to talk about behind the paywall. After that, I describe my month-long experiment with vaping nicotine.
Microsoft is re-opening Three Mile Island to generate electricity to train their power-hungry AI models. Finally, I talk about the recent advances, sparked mostly by Tesla, to bring humanoid robots to market at an affordable price.
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KMO talks with Dr. Tommy Blanchard about social media, the philosophy of mind, large language models, and science fiction. This is the second hour of a conversation that began on KMO Show episode 023.
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The conversation with Douglas Rushkoff that began in the most recent episode of the KMO Show concludes here. Afterwards KMO reflects on the wackiness of the 2024 presidential election in the USA.
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Dwarkish Patel and Leopold Aschenbrener talked about AI for four and a half hours on a podcast. Here's an hour of me boiling it down and straining it through cheese cloth. Topics include aligning the behavior of entities that are much smarter than humans, geopolitical drivers of the AI arms race, and the exponential power needs of training new frontier models.
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The story of GPT4-o sounding too much like ScarJo's character from Her has captured the attention of the mainstream media, the alternative media, and dissident media. It's possible to alight on a less serious AI story, but this is some pretty fluffy stuff. This episode is about all the other concerns that are front and center, not speculative far off scifi scenarios.