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Black Holes and the Intelligence Explosion Extreme scenarios of AI focus on what is logically possible rather than what is physically possible. What does physics have to say about AI risk?

When people fret that AIs will achieve superhuman general intelligence and take over, they neglect physical limits on technology. This essay by Dan Roberts is a reality check. LLMs may top out at GPT-7. Roberts is one of the physicists I feature in my new book about physics, AI, and neuroscience. 🧪

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In ongoing crossword news, @kmahowald.bsky.social and I proposed a panel with Kameron Austin Collins and Adrienne Raphel at SXSW! If you like puzzles and/or us, you can upvote here: https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/134394

UT's press office wrote up a nice piece on and @kmahowald.bsky.social's and my work on crosswords!

https://lifeandletters.la.utexas.edu/2023/07/on-the-beauty-of-crosswords/

AI craze is becoming absurd

If I go there will my google maps experience improve?

Feynman was either very prophetic, or this page is wrong: https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/dirac-lectures?fbclid=IwAR29M2xhDCT4dp4DWRPKE28TqYEjrwjZT_ZWRTiaIBcWOvdZpZ8p_8-IPdA

And thus, the kids everywhere realized that “cheating” with ChatGPT isn’t cool.

A VC pitch for a new type of search engine

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