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1 month ago |
newyorker.com | Joshua Rothman
Last spring, Daniel Kokotajlo, an A.I.-safety researcher working at OpenAI, quit his job in protest. He’d become convinced that the company wasn’t prepared for the future of its own technology, and wanted to sound the alarm. After a mutual friend connected us, we spoke on the phone. I found Kokotajlo affable, informed, and anxious.
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1 month ago |
wired.jp | Joshua Rothman
!DOCTYPE html>いま、AIについてどれだけ真剣に考えるべきなのか？ | WIRED.jp
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1 month ago |
newyorker.com | Joshua Rothman
In my spare time, I’m an obsessed photographer, and through the years I’ve used dozens of cameras. A while ago, a horrible misfortune befell the one that I treasure most. Arriving home, I climbed out of the car without properly closing the top of my bag. As I stood, the camera—a beautiful and ludicrously expensive concatenation of electronics, glass, and brass, which I’ve used daily for years—flew out of its opening, falling to the asphalt behind me. I heard it land with a thud.
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1 month ago |
newyorker.com | Joshua Rothman
A couple of years ago, my wife bought my then four-year-old son a supercool set of wooden ramps, which could be combined with our furniture to create courses through which little balls could run. Building the first course was easy, but, as our ambitions grew, the difficulty level rose. Could we make the balls turn corners? What about generating enough momentum for them to go briefly uphill? Would the ottoman support a ramp? What about the piano bench? The variations seemed endless.
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2 months ago |
newyorker.com | Joshua Rothman
I remember light green notebook paper. (Better for your eyes than white.)I remember that the minister’s son was wild. I remember bubble gum. Blowing big bubbles. And trying to get bubble gum out of my hair. I remember Dole pineapple rings on a bed of lettuce with cottage cheese on top and sometimes a cherry on top of that. I remember the Liz-Eddie-Debbie scandal. I remember “Blue Suede Shoes.” And I remember having a pair. I remember trying to figure out what it’s all about.
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