ETC Wrap for 19 Sep. 2025: Generative AI Will Learn As Infants Do

Posted on September 19, 2025 by JimS
Anthea Roberts, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and founder and CEO of the AI tool Dragonfly Thinking
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ETC Wrap for 14 Sep. 2025: “AI 2027” and More

Posted on September 14, 2025 by JimS

1. Must read: Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, Romeo Dean, “AI 2027,” 4/3/25. Here’s their introduction: “We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution. We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like. It’s informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at OpenAI, and previous forecasting successes.”

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ETC Wrap for 7 Sep. 2025: Data Centers

Posted on September 7, 2025 by JimS

“CPUs typically have between eight and 64 cores optimized for performing sequential computing tasks. GPUs can host thousands of smaller cores that operate in parallel to handle massive amounts of data in a shorter time period…. They can run through vector calculations, image and video processing tasks, and data transformations all at once, which is something a CPU couldn’t match” ServerLift, 25 Aug. 2025).

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