Haven’t done a links post for a while due to broken laptop, but I have a new laptop now, so I’m back!
1) On Hinton leaving Google in the NYT:
Dr. Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, so he can freely speak out about the risks of A.I. A part of him, he said, now regrets his life’s work.
2) The wonderful new biography of Derek Parfit. There’s an interesting part from the book where Edmonds writes that Parfit claimed not to recognise the division sign, which seems very unlikely to be true given that Parfit did very well at maths at school. What should we infer from this? Was it an odd affectation? Could the source of the story be mistaken (or lying)? Unsure.
(Richard Chappell’s Parfit in Seven Parts blog series is also worth reading).
3) Can you convince Eliezer to sell you a GPU Cluster? Play the game!
4) Friend of the blog Rob Long writes about what you should think when a language mode…
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