🤖 AGI is coming, are you ready?
+ 40 questions to ask yourself | Wisdom Letter #220
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Now, onto today’s post -
Artificial General Intelligence is coming.
AGI = AI smarter than humans!
It will be good, but it can also be bad.
Watch this Ted Talk from Ilya Sutskever to understand the finer nuances around AGI.
The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever | TED -
(Ilya is the same dude who is at the centre of the Open AI drama going on right now.)
The Open AI Drama
If you want to understand the OpenAI drama better, 2 pieces of writing I highly recommend -
OpenAI’s Misalignment and Microsoft’s Gain - Ben Thompson of Stratechery
OpenAI & Grand Strategy - Packy McCormick
And if you’re looking for some fun memes then check them out here, here and here.
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Almost everything is worthless!
Loved this line in a book I’m reading right now - Essentialism by Greg McKeown.
Almost everything is worthless, and a very few things are exceptionally valuable.
Our goal should be to only do those every few things well.
That is the way of the Essentialist!
40 Questions to ask yourself every year
Found this amazing list of questions to ask yourself every year.
I know this is what I’m going to do in the last week of December -
From Stephango
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Ayush & Aditi