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I write about AI and related stuff for WIRED. signal = wak.01 (no pr pitches pls). newsletter = https://t.co/qG4DExCEbS

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RT @AndrewCurran_: Why does it have arms?
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Mark Zuckerberg is offering some researchers $300 million over four years, WIRED has learned. Meta has made at least 10 of these offers to OpenAI staffers. Wild new scoop from @ZoeSchiffer.
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Doesn't the MIT SEAL paper (and other work on continuous learning) cross this imaginary AI danger 🚨red line already? These systems aren't actually dangerous, and surely all the big companies are working on similar stuff. Here's details of the SEAL work:
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We must urgently assess how far Chinese AI systems have come—and work with U.S. industry to contain the risks of automated AI R&D. Because once an AI starts improving itself, the race changes entirely.
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RT @jyo_pari: Thanks @willknight for covering SEAL! Really appreciate the thoughtful and insightful way you captured the work.
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It's been 135 days since inauguration. It feels like 13.5 years.
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Trump’s visa-cutting measures may rob America of scientific expertise, technical talent, and many future entrepreneurs.
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While the US puts up barriers to the rest of the world, the rest of the world demonstrations that it can offer increasingly competitive AI. Side-note: the Stanford AI index is an excellent, in-depth look at where things stand in AI.
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Nice piece by @EthanZ on DeepSeek and the perils of isolationism. If only someone in the administration might read it.
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RT @GillVerd: New article in @WIRED by @willknight. Includes more on our tech's progress and our silicon probabilistic bit milestone. Go….
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RT @lmatsakis: SCOOP: The Trump administration is planning to eliminate an entire team at the National Institute of Standards and Technolog….
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RT @GillVerd: What did Will see? 👀.
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If you care about AI then you need to know about the probabilistic computer chip being developed by @GillVerd (aka @BasedBeffJezos) and @TrevorMcCrt1 of @Extropic. The backstory is as fascinating as the technology itself.
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RT @ShayneRedford: Great coverage of our new position paper by @willknight!. Together with 30+ experts from AI, cybersecurity, law & policy….
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Thank you, @Knibbs for taking over WIRED's AI newsletter again this week. You can read her excellent dispatch, on an interesting new AI search tool featuring something called "humans", here: (Also, please subscribe).
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The video game Oasis (not sure if it's a nod to Ready Player One) is entirely generated by an AI model, which means you can explore by tricking the underlying model into hallucinating new scenes--a fevered kind of generative lucid-dreaming.
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Will Knight
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I recently visited Physical Intelligence, a $400 million funded startup that aims to bring artificial intelligence into the real world. The company is making progress towards a master algorithm for robot control and building some remarkable home robots.
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