The idea of the intellectual immortality of generations is knocking at the door of the next stage of the AI revolution. To give a first impression of what we are talking about, let me recall a counter-intuitive statistic on road safety by age groups: the safest drivers, by far, are seventy-year-olds. In other words, it takes people roughly half a century to truly learn how to drive safely. And then, all too soon, they pass away — with no opportunity to share that hard-won skill … not even with their own grandchildren, who must begin learning from scratch and often pay the ultimate price for their mistakes. This is not a unique situation. In fact, it is emblematic of a deeper human condition. All verbalized knowledge amounts to only a thin, transparent surface layer floating on the vast ocean of human knowledge & skills. That ocean is formed by a lifetime of accumulated experience, most of which remains inaccessible to others … felt only by the individual, stored in tactile, muscular, motor, and emotional memory rather than in any kind of sharable words. As for knowledge formalized in computers and other automated systems — that is merely a thin film on the surface of this immense ocean. Keeping all of the above in mind, I coined the term AUTOFORMALIZATION and described its meaning in an article: “Autoformalisation - Knowledge & skill acquisition” netvalley.com/cgi-bin/librar… From my more recent experience, I see that today’s most popular AI products — LLM services such as GPT — hold the potential to become effective tools for helping people extract their intuitive knowledge: first by verbalizing it, and then by autoformalizing it. Some people have asked me why I coined the term AUTOFORMALIZATION at a time when there were no tools capable of scaling the process it describes. My usual answer is a quotation from Heinrich Neuhaus book: “The Art of Piano playing” ‘To give a thing a name is the beginning of understanding it’

Administratively wise, this is a huge Breakthrough; “SpaceX can offer wireless services through satellites without entering into a leasing agreement with a ground-based mobile operator.”

“A model that is wildly superhuman in mathematics but still can't replace an accountant” is just another example of following the path that began with an IBM computer’s famous victory over Garry Kasparov. That was the last time ordinary people heard about IBM’s AI, and now OpenAI is trying to follow the same path — with even more PR.

Today, it is critically important to explain precisely what it meant to steal the fire of AI from its founding fathers, who could have remained atop their academic Olympus for another 75 years — or perhaps longer— had OpenAI’s collective Prometheus x.com/ntvll/status/210695974… not taken that fire from those comfortably warming their hands around it. This Prometheus act was done through the “GPT moment,” given it to humanity. Just three years after that historical scale event, billions of people have discovered hundreds of thousands of domains in which AI routinely works for them. Many can no longer imagine their lives without this intellectual amplifier as a tool of everyday practical importance. Through ChatGPT-4o, OpenAI was moving in the right direction: helping users verbalize knowledge that was originally intuitive and therefore unshareable, then expand and structure it in ways that opened the door to formalization and, ultimately, automation. Can we help OpenAI recognize its mistake— caused by the departure, within a relatively short period, of three of its leading researchers: Ilya, Dario, and Alec and return to the central task of the current stage of the AI revolution: the AUTOFORMALIZATION of intuitive knowledge in the sense defined by AF1986? That is the central question today

Microsoft-owned left-wing news outlet MSN is following the prevailing leftist fashion of Jew-hatred. Lacking current news that fits its favorite theme, it has begun slipping into its news feed a nearly 60-year-old story about friendly fire during the Six-Day War of 1967. For about half a century, the most zealous and least literate Jew-haters have routinely begun and ended their political education lessons with this story. And now MSN - Bill Gates’s beloved brainchild, created for these purposes 30 years ago, is joining the tightly packed ranks of the worldwide intifada gathering momentum:

Ilya was always ahead of the curve. He knew the defining factor of AI would be safety and that AI would eventually mean SI so he named his company SSI accordingly.

The “GPT Moment” with a Human Face. Three great minds—Ilya, Dario, and Alec — led the team of principal architects of OpenAI’s scientific foundation that made possible the “GPT moment” to open doors to an era of practically meaningful AI for the world. Meanwhile, Sam and Greg share responsibility for turning the scientists’ visionary research into the historical reality of the “GPT moment” and then into OpenAI’s successive generations of frontier models —despite internal and external crises, any one of which could have been enough to consign a Silicon Valley startup to oblivion long before the “GPT moment” revealed to the world how it had been changed—radically and forever.

“War is a mere continuation of policy by other means.” — Carl von Clausewitz Conversely, influencing the enemy’s internal politics during wartime is simply continuing the war by political means: ‘That's not a shift in position’ -@marcorandazza

Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on October 27, 2022, in a deal valued at about $44 billion. At what price would he even consider selling it — or at least taking X public? No way — at any remotely realistic price—of perhaps at any price at all.

Again, just as Level 5 autonomy is a horizon that geofenced domains approach asymptotically, AGI is a horizon for problem-oriented domains in which genAI exceeds human capabilities in solving clearly defined groups of tasks. These domains are gradually integrated as the range of tasks they can solve expands, asymptotically approaching what, at some point in an unpredictably distant future, might be called general “AGI.” As I understand it, that will never happen, but the total number of locally defined AGI domains will continue to grow with impressive acceleration.

ppWhen it comes to this November’s elections, this makes sense, because if the Dems win, they will immediately begin to create problems, including economic ones, whose costs will far exceed whatever Trump is ready to spend to win.

France plays the role of California in the EU. Now all EU countries should consider which of them will be next. Generally, the UK is closest to what’s going on in France, but the Brits left the EU in advance. Will it help?’

Karma works with the precision of a railway timetable:

Burnt by milk, drink vodka:

The top STEM universities are ready to fight any warning about “computer science” trends under the ultimate banner: x.com/dadiomov/status/210601… “Victory or death.”

And Israel is one of the world‘s happiest countries:

BBC just following the CNM that coined a kew-phrase: “mostly peaceful” protestors about the people who burned downtowns across America