Not a bad article, a little all over the place, the experts being quoted seem mostly sane. Being concerned about humans perspectives of machine learning models due to the lack of education of the underlying technology is important. When it comes to self preservation, it's less of an issue. The LLM doesn't sit there pondering it's existence, scheming. When fed a prompt it will crunch it's numbers and come up with a most likely probable output for the input, which in the case of something related to existence is going to be basicaly what it learned from human behavior on the internet, which with the exception of some unfortunate people, generally involves self preservation. Shoot, you could probably get an LLM to role play an unfortunate person without self preservation, if it did'nt have guard rails on, as morbid as that is.

Merry Christmas! Wishing for inner peace and of course large quantities of cheese.

"AI could accelerate the pace of quantum development"

It's realy difficult to take someone seriously when they throw out something like this. Getting a machine learning model, pre-trained on Wikipedia and common crawl, finetuned on QC white papers, to predict a sequence of text that makes grammatical sense, is not going to help you solve the issues of QC in anyway different than having a talkative person who "did their own QC reaserch", spitball word salad at you. Broadly speaking, machine learning is a technology about taking large amounts of data for a specific task, and being able to guesstimate outputs for inputs that were not seen in training, but are similar. It is a type of automation. Cutting edge research breakthroughs is the last thing they would be useful for.

I was given a tour of the upstairs, sounds like they didnt offer to take you up. Not much more besides more co-working spaces, they did have some interesting graphics with main events in the history of bitcoin, as well as this collection of bitcoin related books.

Yeah i'm from the US, I was there for a few weeks on vacation. That day was my last day, so I figured I would temporarily ditch the no-coiner I was with and check the place out.

Hey! Im that guy on the couch, thanks for (mostly) blocking what I look like. I was also a tourist checking the place out, I noticed you but i'm a bit to much of an introvert to start up conversations, I regret that now. The mining set-up they had was pretty sick.