Yann LeCun

Excellent thread by Stanford's @percyliang with a list of reasons why open source AI platforms are inherently *safer* than closed source ones.

A nice piece by @AndrewYNg arguing that irrational fears about AI should not cause governments to regulate open source AI models out of existence.

Anyone who thinks Auto-Regressive LLMs are getting close to human-level AI, or merely need to be scaled up to get there, *must* read this. AR-LLMs have very limited reasoning and planning abilities. This will not be fixed by making them bigger and training them on more data.

Excellent piece by @Noahpinion on techno-optimism. So many good points. Like Noah, I'm a humanist who subscribes to both Positive and Normative forms of Active Techno-Optimism. Quote: "Techno-optimism is thus much more than an argument about the institutions of today or the…

Very interesting paper: using generative AI to produce text or images emits 3 to 4 orders of magnitude *less* CO2 than doing it manually or with the help of a computer.