A few years ago Polson claimed to have proven the Riemann Hypothesis and published an attempted proof to the Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, after which a retraction was published piped.video/watch?v=0e0ToP…

PabloReports: AI companies seem to be saying that they want to slow it down, but there’s a lot of skepticism about whether or not they’re genuine or serious about their intentions. What do you make of it? AOC: I think two things can be true at once. One is understanding that AI technology can be very dangerous when pursued without any guardrails. And we can also acknowledge the financially upside-down position that a lot of these oligarchs are in. There is an AI bubble honestly, over the last year. The entire U.S. economy and our positive performance can largely be attributed to seven AI companies that many believe [their] stock prices are a bubble. It’s been several months now that I have been sounding the alarm that AI, that the AI industry should not receive a government bailout. And I am very concerned that in this landscape of a potentially dangerous technology emerging, we also have companies that are in a financially upside-down position, where everyday people’s 401(k)s and pensions are invested and have open exposure to potentially volatile investments. And we could be seeing an economic bubble collide with a technological frontier. And so, my primary concern in all of this is working-class people—their jobs, their retirements, their pensions—and protecting them from the gambling that San Francisco has been doing in people’s livelihoods.

The most recent post by @davidsirota interviewing Ed Zitron and Matt Stoller is extremely disappointing because it’s riddled with extremely basic misunderstandings about how AI works, mechanically. Like this is just an objectively wrong description of the Hugging Face incident.

Twenty-five Fields Medal winners have published a joint declaration warning about what they see as a severe misalignment between AI companies and the mathematics community.

Twenty-five Fields Medal winners have published a joint declaration warning about what they see as a severe misalignment between AI companies and the mathematics community.

What OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes effort cost in 88h could have hired 600 postdocs for a year. Hundreds of scientists tackling hundreds of problems, likely generating far more discoveries, innovation and technology. Developing AI is great. But not at the cost of defunding science.