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 […]
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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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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In the latest episode of Searching for the Question Live, I had the pleasure of hosting Adam Dorr from RethinkX, for a conversation about the impending revolution of humanoid robots and AI. Adam painted a picture of a future where robots could outnumber humans 10 to 1, performing tasks we can’t even imagine yet, being
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I had the opportunity to speak with Pete Worden, the director of the Breakthrough Initiatives, aiming to leverage cutting edge technology to enable interstellar travel of automated probes, the Starshot project. Pete Worden, the head of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, has always been fascinated by the idea of interstellar travel. He believes that now is
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In this live stream, I chat with Enrico Coppotelli of Italian union CISL Lazio, exploring the contemporary challenges that trade unions face in the era of Artificial Intelligence and humanoid robots. We analyze the implications of advanced automation on work, the transformations of the labor market and the new skills required. The conversation also focuses
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I spoke about advanced Artificial Intelligence and humanoid robots at the “Ideas for the future” conference in Rome. Here is the video recording of my speech in Italian, 1 hour 50 minutes after the start of the live broadcast, followed by the revised transcript, together with questions from the audience. Technology created humanity. We have
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