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Artificial Cognition, OpenAI - March 15, 2023

OPEN AI: Planning for AGI and beyond

Sam Altman- Open AI "As our systems get closer to AGI, we are becoming increasingly cautious with the creation and deployment of our models." Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity. If AGI is successfully created, this technology could help us elevate humanity by increasing abundance, turbocharging the global economy, and aiding in the discovery of new scientific knowledge that changes the limits of possibility. AGI has the potential to give everyone incredible new capabilities; we can imagine a world where all of us have access to help with almost...

The Future: Vision and Invitation

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson walks us through the mission statement and goals for the newly formed Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). The ARC hopes to find answers to the major issues facing our world, and they are now extending a hand for you to join! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZo2H2hlJzI

GPT-4 is coming next week – and it will be multimodal

GPT-4 is coming next week – and it will be multimodal, says Microsoft Germany The release of GPT-4 is imminent, as Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun mentioned at an AI kickoff event on March 9, 2023. GPT-4 is coming next week: at an approximately one-hour hybrid information event entitled " AI in Focus - Digital Kickoff " on 9 March 2023, four Microsoft Germany employees presented Large Language Models (LLM) like GPT series as a disruptive force for companies and their Azure-OpenAI offering in detail. The kickoff event took place in the German language, news outlet Heise was present. Rather casually, Andreas Braun, CTO...

What is futurecrafting?

In the fall of 2019, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched a course called Sci Fab – Science Fiction-Inspired Envisioneering & Futurecrafting. Through reading science fiction, students in the course were encouraged to imagine and propose world-building projects and initiatives. Envisioneering involves critiquing science fiction and extrapolating from it a future containing design elements of a universe not yet here. Futurecrafting involves analyzing science fiction and finding examples of compelling technologies that could become real. The topical coverage of this course included the future of matter, energy, medicine, food, cities, brains, emerging nations, sex/gender, commerce, politics, transport, aging, entertainment, design, religion, and more....

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AGI, AI, AI Models, Futurecrafting, Prime - March 09, 2023