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Max Zeff

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Writing - mostly about AI - for WIRED. I am maxwell, I am max, but I am not well. On signal at Mzeff.88
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But OpenAI and Anthropic are making more and more urgent calls for an industry slowdown. @merettm , openai's chief scientist, said last weekend he thought the best path forward for AI research includes “coordinating to slow down future development” https://t.co/jKkGbm3nKS

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  • OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published 'An Alien Mind' on September 6, arguing modern AI has become an intelligence humans do not fully understand.
  • He wrote that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed for much longer.
  • Pachocki called for voluntary slowdowns until shared safety bars are set, and for international coordination to become a top government priority.
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4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup wired.com
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  • Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le.
  • The Delaware Public Benefit Corporation will start by automating machine learning research, then expand into hardware design, drug discovery, and clean energy.
  • Alphabet shares reportedly fell about 5% as Demis Hassabis moved to chair and Koray Kavukcuoglu took over as DeepMind SVP.
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New: Silicon Valley has become obsessed with AI agents this year, but most people in the world still haven't touched one. Usage numbers for AI agents are still in the low tens of millions. When, if ever, are we getting the ChatGPT moment for agents? www.wired.com/story/why-no...

Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents wired.com
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New: OpenAI is developing a "Persistent" mode for its AI agent, Codex. Persistent mode is a new level of reasoning effort that will make Codex "continue working until put to sleep." The agent will also proactively create follow up tasks for itself, per code reviewed by WIRED.

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