AI Doomer NGO's received 1.6 billion in funding
https://x.com/i/birdwatch/t/1824868281981034676
keywords: AI, doomerism
University of Bath study finds that current large language models pose no existential risk to humanity.
"ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) cannot learn independently or acquire new skills, meaning they pose no existential threat to humanity, according to new research from the University of Bath and the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany.
The study, published today as part of the proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024) – the premier international conference in natural language processing – reveals that LLMs have a superficial ability to follow instructions and excel at proficiency in language, however, they have no potential to master new skills without explicit instruction. This means they remain inherently controllable, predictable and safe."
https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/ai-poses-no-existential-threat-to-humanity-new-study-finds/
keywords: AI, doomerism
Monero anonymity to increase from 16 to ~1 million+ after Full Chain Membership Proofs (FCMP++) go live.
"Full-Chain Membership Proofs, as a concept, is a replacement for rings within the Monero protocol. While rings have offered sender privacy to Monero since it launched, they're vulnerable to attacks such as the EAE attack, have difficulties upon chain reorganizations, and in general enable statistical analysis (mitigated by distribution of the decoy selection algorithm). Full-Chain Membership Proofs prove the output spent is one of any output on the chain, effectively removing all of these risks. This means every input goes from an immediate anonymity set of 16 to 100,000,000."
https://x.com/monero/status/1825963024458375308
https://www.getmonero.org/2024/04/27/fcmps.html
keywords: monero, privacy, crypto