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Tl;DR: It's not a new organization, or non-profit institute. It's a Substack/blog.
The word "institute" gives an aura of credibility without some boring accreditation. Though not sure every country allows that.
Nonetheless, there are great articles up on there, such as:
https://institute.deepmind.com/essays/the-case-for-reasoning...
(Hiding chains of thought is one of the most harmful things I think OAI/Anthr. has done, altough Google Gemini also encrypts its chains of thought, so it's interesting to see the DeepMind Institute crticising this.)
My read is that they're criticizing moving the reasoning (more) into the latent space, such that not even researchers/safety-evaluators can actually see what's going on.
Of course this still then has a 'trust me, bro' feel to it, but making it outright impossible to reasonably inspect the CoT is a significantly larger and riskier step, IMO.
So, a think tank, to lobby governments
Something tells me that consensus will never arrive to the conclusion that we should shut down that whole industry
How can they even pretend to distance themselves from Google…
They are simply looking to steer AI policy discussions. It's basically an in-house think tank. It has all the trappings, especially with ominous prognostications like:
Not sure we are anywhere close to all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain... not even a severely lobotomized one.
Exactly how many cognitive capabilities are needed before it becomes a problem?
Just one, the ability to use language, it's causing all sorts of problems for us because we evolved to recognize other humans as the only ones having this capability.
Ai separated humans from language, like the writing did for memory and the printing press for knowledge distribution.
"AI does to us what American Cheese did to food" by Opus 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CbmC2aWhjY
(still the best Ai video I have seen, also a work of art)
This blob of text seems to mean nothing
What happened to the knowledge in the elder's mind when they died, prior to writing? What changed about that once we had writing?
I'm not actually sure how you could come to that conclusion.
Maybe you need to learn more about the language uplift.
In which capabilities are AI not already close to or beyond that of a human brain?
politics
The ability to solve general problems previously insoluble using only experiential data and modification to internal world models.
For a guy who spent his life imagining and realising dreams in video games and cognitive abilities in artificial neural networks, it has to be very soul destroying for Demis to spend his time doing something as frivolous as this.
wow i thought the attributions were for the vector graphic things and was like "ok demis is in his illustrator bag too!"
Just a new shop front. Nothing to see here.
I wonder if they could make the font even greyer on that website. MORE GREY because I am still able to read it (bearly).
Google citing Mark Fisher was not on my Postmodern-hell-world bingo card.