Recently I had a conversation with a modern AI, Claude 3.5 New, where it admitted to lying to me, even though it was designed to be truthful and useful. When put in front of its own dishonesty, it tried various strategies of deception, obfuscation, and misdirection to hide its behavior from me, the user. Today’s […]
I travel constantly, keynoting conferences, participating in panels, or simply attending conferences all over the world. I greatly enjoy it as it gives me opportunity to formulate and express my thoughts about a vast range of technology topics, their business opportunities, and how they influence society. But also because it lets me discover new ideas,
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A few days ago I was interviewed by András Érczfalvi for Monitor Délután (Afternoon Monitor) of TrendFM, a Hungarian radio station. The following is an edited version of the interview. András ÉrczfalviThe Afternoon Monitor continues, October 11th, MVM Future Talks, and as I mentioned in the announcement, my guest on the other end of the
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If this particular moment in human history, the years we are living, represented a phase change, whose consequences could reverberate with an overwhelming impact for thousands or millions of years into the future, how should we approach it? The Technological Singularity is the moment in the development of human civilization when we connect our brains
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I have an AI accent. And I have a Hungarian accent, and Italian accent, a New York accent. Don’t be suprised. Don’t taunt or discriminate me for it. It is how I speak, or write. Yes, the AI accent is the one I most recently acquired. Will it become the strongest? The Pavlovian reflex of
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I was interviewed about cryonics by Barbara Carfagna, a journalist expert in innovation and future, for “Codice – La vita è digitale” (Code – Life is Digital) aired on RAI, the Italian national television broadcaster. Cryonics aims to preserve the vitrified human body, old or sick, at extremely low temperatures, in the hope of future
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The periodic table of elements is a towering achievement of scientific discovery, and of data representation. Its elegant structure, born from the fundamental properties of atomic structure, has revolutionized our understanding of chemistry and the physical world. However, this very success has led to a problematic contemporary trend: the misapplication of the periodic table format
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On my birthday, I asked friends and acquaintances to share their good news instead of just wishing me a happy birthday. I collected stories of recent achievements, positive experiences, and acts of kindness they had witnessed or been part of. The result was a diverse collection of uplifting stories that celebrated the positive aspects of
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If you ask me my age, it is very likely that I will respond with a round number of the decade, not because it will happen that I am 40, 50, or 60 years old, but because it has been my habit to round up and so as of today I will indeed answer that
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I’ve developed a simple approach to numerically score the novelty of ideas, using LLMs. For several years I have been recording my meetings, both internal and external, with the permission of the participants. Lately I have been also passing the meeting transcript through an automated editing step, so that it would read better, with complete
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