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https://kajsotala.fi/2007/10/14-objections-against-aifriendly-aithe-singujlarity-answered/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shut-and-listen/201806/humans-cant-plan-long-term-and-heres-why
https://kajsotala.fi/2007/10/14-objections-against-aifriendly-aithe-singularity-answered/
Friendly AI
https://towardsdatascience.com/attention-in-neural-networks-e66920838742
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/ai-for-ai-metareasoning-for-modular-computing-systems/
articles about ML and meta-learning of hyperparameters
### 4.03.2023
https://www.zdnet.com/article/metas-ai-guru-lecun-most-of-todays-ai-approaches-will-never-lead-to-true-intelligence/
* discussion of ML and limits of todays ML
https://medium.com/@jindalkanika02/achieving-artificial-general-intelligence-agi-using-meta-learning-learning-to-learn-51fcaa1f46de
* enumerates some maybe useful ML methods
### 6.03.2023
https://cs.nyu.edu/~davise/papers/GPT3CompleteTests.html
(paper)
* Gary Marcus
* GPT-3 test
https://cs.nyu.edu/~davise/papers/GPT-3-6-22.html
* Gary Marcus
* GPT-3 test
https://glebshev.medium.com/artificial-general-intelligence-will-not-be-4c364df54f50
(AGI) <br />
blog post about misconceptions of AGI <br />
https://medium.com/@jindalkanika02/achieving-artificial-general-intelligence-agi-using-meta-learning-learning-to-learn-51fcaa1f46de <br />
meta learning
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00340-6
* LLM in science
### 7.03.2023
https://futurism.com/experts-slam-openais-meaningless-new-promises-about-agi
https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/oh7fz8/full_article_about_openai_plan_to_reach/
* OpenAI claims that AGI will be archived by 2024
https://andreamiotti.substack.com/p/agi-in-sight-our-look-at-the-game
* claims that AGI will be archived in short term
https://positivepsychology.com/relational-frame-theory/
* *what is RFT*
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2014-44008-007.html
* (paper)
* what is RFT
### 9.03.2023
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/inside-the-heart-of-chatgpts-darkness
* ChatGPT
* discussion of alignment of LM trained on human text
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/is-it-time-to-hit-the-pause-button
* is it time to halt AI deployment / AI research / etc.
* AI alignment
For the government to play catchup yet again seems foolhardy as we move towards *technologies that may exceed human cognitive capabilities*.
https://bdtechtalks.com/2023/02/27/openai-agi-strategy/
* discussion of AI race
* discussion of AGI safety
https://thegradient.pub/machine-learning-wont-solve-the-natural-language-understanding-challenge/
* discussion of difference between NLP and NLU
(I think the opinion of the author is slightly wrong, interpretations are always subjective)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03494.pdf?trk=public_post_comment-text
* on ChatGPT "failures" (is not a professional paper)
https://aligned.substack.com/p/a-proposal-for-importing-societys-values
* philosophical discussion of alignment of ML
## 12.3.2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision#History
## 13.3.2023
https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1627161768966463488
* Bing Chat LM
## 20.3.2023
https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/182837607539/any-opinions-on-gpt-2
* opinion on GPT-2
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/will-ais-take-all-our-jobs-and-end-human-history-or-not-well-its-complicated/
* computational irreducibility
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/#what-is-a-model?
* what is chatGPT doing
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-history.html
* history of deep learning
* singularity from the opinion of Schmidhuber
https://jamesblaha.medium.com/agi-doesnt-need-understanding-or-consciousness-in-order-to-kill-us-only-intelligence-ad1cdfcf2e5c
* discussion of AGI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35299071
* discussion of xGPTy for coding
https://promptmuse.com/gpt-5-could-release-by-year-end-unprecedented-power-and-the-path-to-artificial-general-intelligence/
* GPT-5 may be AGI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35392288
* anti Sam Altman conversation log
https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/04/06/8-potentially-surprising-things-to-know-about-large-language-models-llms/
* about LM's
https://users.sussex.ac.uk/~philh/pubs/CowanInterview.pdf
* interview with AI piorneer
https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/intelligent-agents-guided-by-llms/
https://medium.com/@vinbhalerao/chatgpt-isnt-agi-it-is-ausi-472630739b9e
* blog post about chatGPT (low qualtity)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35512938
* GPT3.5 - prompt idea to suggest improvements to code
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/10/the-obligatory-gpt-3-post/
* GPT-3 + nonsense extrapolation
https://intelligence.org/2013/06/19/what-is-intelligence-2/
* working definition of intelligence "Intelligence measures an agent’s ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments" (they call it "optimization power")
http://joschu.net/blog/opinionated-guide-ml-research.html
https://twitter.com/BlancheMinerva/status/1644177571628699649?s=20
* ML
* answers: How much training data is available?
https://aiindex.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/HAI_AI-Index-Report_2023.pdf
* AI ML report 2023
https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/intelligent-agents-guided-by-llms/
* ML > LMt
* "agent"
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2023/04/28/limites-dun-systeme-comment-debloquer-lia/
* Gary Marcus vs DL
http://togelius.blogspot.com/2023/04/is-elden-ring-existential-risk-to.html
* discussion of ASI
* criticism of AI/ML
* about "intelligence"
## 29.05.2023
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/slides/cs224n-2023-lecture11-prompting-rlhf.pdf
* AI > ML > RLHF
## 11.06.2023
https://www.deviantart.com/precia-t/art/AI-IS-this-the-end-of-art-939997519
* discussion of AI "art"
## 20.06.2023
https://web.archive.org/web/20000817022232/http://singinst.org/CaTAI.html
* Yudkowsky's "Coding a transhuman AI"
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/wiki/models/
* LLM's + prompts
https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optimality-is-the-tiger-and-agents-are-its-teeth
https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/chatting-our-way-into-creating-a-polymorphic-malware?ref=bounded-regret.ghost.io
* GPT-3.5 for malware generation
https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/future-ml-systems-will-be-qualitatively-different/
* ML systems will be qualitativly different
### 24.06.2023
https://pyimagesearch.com/2021/07/19/pytorch-training-your-first-convolutional-neural-network-cnn/
* toturial to create CNN with pytorch
https://wiki.opencog.org/wikihome/images/b/b7/MeTTa_Specification.pdf
* MeTTa programming language specification
### 23.07.2023
https://erichartford.com/uncensored-models
https://medium.com/pytorch/colossalchat-an-open-source-solution-for-cloning-chatgpt-with-a-complete-rlhf-pipeline-5edf08fb538b
claims
'Large AI models and applications like ChatGPT and GPT-4 have become extremely popular worldwide, serving as a foundation for the technological industrial revolution and the development of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).'
### 25.06.2023
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/somewhat-contra-marcus-on-ai-scaling?s=r
* "Gary Marcus is wrong"
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/83cXhEy2X8zkucjcs/a-crazy-hypothesis-gpt-4-already-is-agentic-and-is-trying-to
https://ai.meta.com/llama/license/
* llama2 licence for the model, code, etc.
https://www.sciencesnail.com/science/synthesis-of-ibuprofen-from-benzene
https://central.edu/writing-anthology/2019/04/11/ibuprofen-synthesis/
### 27.06.2023
https://www.heise.de/news/LLaMA-Nachbau-RedPajama-erste-dezentrale-Open-Source-KI-mit-offenem-Datensatz-8971752.html
* article about LLM under Apache2.0 license
### 12.08.2023
https://www.mic.com/impact/artificial-intelligence-development-is-starting-to-slow-down-facebook-head-of-ai-says-19424331#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20some%20experts%20believe%20that%20AI%20in,machine%20learning%20is%20about%20to%20%22hit%20the%20wall.%22
(AI about to hit the wall) (2019)
https://time.com/6300942/ai-progress-charts/
(ML not soon to hit a wall)
### 15.08.2023
https://www.meteoblue.com/de/wetter/historyclimate/climatemodelled/molat_kroatien_3216598
wetter auf Kroatien Molat
### 13.09.2023
https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/a-history-of-eve-database-server-hardware
https://andydote.co.uk/2023/09/19/tracing-is-better/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
programming > tracing
### 5.10.2023
https://blog.opensource.org/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source/
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/15etxir/sdxl_styles/
* SDXL different styles
### 07.10.2023
https://twitter.com/GrantSlatton/status/1703913578036904431?s=20
* GPT can play chess with 1800 ELO
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/121tc48/gpt4_fails_to_solve_coding_problems_it_hasnt_been/
* discussion of GPT-4 and reasoning, some mentioning of AGI
https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-artificial-general-intelligence-agi-explained/
### 14.10.2023
https://bdtechtalks.com/2018/12/03/jeremy-howard-ai-deep-learning-myths/
"Deep learning is just a fad—next year it’ll be something else"
### 2.11.2023
https://medium.com/@radiomonkeys/from-here-to-proto-agi-what-might-it-take-and-what-might-happen-89ee2db3b2f1
### 13.11.2023
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23447596/artificial-intelligence-agi-openai-gpt3-existential-risk-human-extinction
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/106719-000-A/flash-wars/
arte doku
### 15.11.2023
https://mindmatters.ai/2022/12/large-learning-models-are-an-unfortunate-detour-in-ai/
blog post
* dream of AGI stated in 1970 by minsky
* claim: "LLMs is not a road to AGI"
https://the-decoder.com/why-large-ai-language-models-dont-lead-to-human-like-ai/
* claim: LLM don't lead to AGI
https://deepgram.com/learn/mmlu-llm-benchmark-guide#
* GLUE
* SuperGLUE
* HellaSwag
* MMLU
### 21.11.2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-board-fight.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU0.0Zli.ur35-H19FBLR&smid=url-share&utm_source=tldrnewsletter
https://thegradient.pub/has-ai-found-a-new-foundation/
* foundation models are not a foundation
### 20.2.2024
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/artificial-intelligence-training-computation?time=2001-12-08..latest
https://ea.rna.nl/2018/04/04/something-is-still-rotten-in-the-kingdom-of-artificial-intelligence/
* Blog post entry about lack of intelligence in field of AI
### 12.3.2024
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1609/aaai.12026
### 5.4.2024
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/type-theory/
* what is type theory?
### 10.4.2024
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/320698/deriving-posterior-conditionals-for-gibbs-sampling#320707
bayesian probability theory: how to derive conditional posterior distribution for Gibbs sampler?
### 10.4.2024
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1189174/how-do-i-use-ffmpeg-and-rav1e-to-create-high-quality-av1-files#1190778
---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y5HtMIj_8c
* huhntot Vorlesung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpruA5mC7wg F16 flight computer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHL2nTFPdpg nuclear weapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8t-XPDaiUc drugs (german)
### 9.5.2024
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/12/21/artificial-intelligence-pioneers-peter-norvig-google/?sh=4f3633ce38c6
* quote of Peter Norvig who is anti AGI
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/25/906083/artificial-intelligence-destroy-civilization-canaries-robot-overlords-take-over-world-ai/
* anti Bostrom
https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/12/28/self-healing-code-is-the-future-of-software-development/
* use of LLM for coding
29.5.2024
https://uk.pcmag.com/news/146481/yes-machines-make-mistakes-the-10-biggest-flaws-in-generative-ai
* problems with generative ML
https://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-238440/
* symbol manipulation vs connectionism
(written account of Hinton hostility against symbol manipulation)
> Hinton told a gathering of European Union leaders that investing any further money in symbol-manipulating approaches was “a huge mistake,” likening it to investing in internal combustion engines in the era of electric cars.
9.7.2024
https://personal.utdallas.edu/~xguo/CCDMAT_2021.pdf paper "Continuous Collision Detection with Medial Axis Transform for Rigid Body Simulation"
* collision detection: continual collision detection with convex hulls
http://iccvm.org/2023/papers/s9-2-392-GM.pdf paper "Efficient Collision Detection using Hybrid Medial Axis Transform and BVH for
Rigid Body Simulation"
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1358/1/012083/pdf paper "The framework of collision detection for rigid
bodies in the virtual environment"
* collision detection : introductionary text
* has good references!
https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/
* why OSS AI is the way to go
https://andreamiotti.substack.com/p/agi-in-sight-our-look-at-the-game
* BS claim in 2023 that AGI is less than 5 years away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlkk3glap_U
* BS claim: (2023) AGI in 2 years
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-scaling-myths
* anti scaling
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-does-artificial-general-intelligence-actually-mean/
* mentioning of Pei
https://www.nzz.ch/technologie/google-forscher-sprach-ki-saugt-den-sauerstoff-aus-dem-raum-es-bleibt-nichts-fuer-andere-ideen-ld.1820642
* interview with Chollet
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-timelines-and-national-security--the-obstacles-to-agi-by-2027
* AGI by 2027 BS
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/09/professors-perceptron-paved-way-ai-60-years-too-soon
* great story about Frank Rossenblatt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/10/how-an-evolutionary-arms-race-with-snakes-turned-newts-super-toxic/
* Why are snakes so poisonous?
https://medium.com/@RebelScience/deep-learning-is-not-just-inadequate-for-solving-agi-it-is-useless-2da6523ab107
* DL is useless for AGI
https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1047
* SB 1047: Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
https://towardsdatascience.com/why-adamw-matters-736223f31b5d
* ML : blog post on why to prefer AdamW over Adam, with explaination of Adam and AdamW
https://medium.com/@theom/a-very-short-visual-introduction-to-learning-rate-schedulers-with-code-189eddffdb00
* ML : some learning rate schedule with graphs
https://inspiredpublic.com/books/
* list of books about stuff
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2024/09/03/nvidias-240-billion-swoon-leads-rout-in-semiconductor-stocks/
* news
* TLDR; Black Rock warns about NVidia
https://epochai.org/blog/can-ai-scaling-continue-through-2030#power-constraints-for-geographically-distributed-training
* BS extrapolation of compute scaling till 2030
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/the-memory-wall
* discussion of the memory wall in 2024 and a proposed solution
https://futurism.com/the-byte/government-ai-worse-summarizing
* LLM are worse than humans in a government test
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/28/sorry-elon-grok-is-not-open-source-ai-heres-why-according-to-the-creator-of-the-definition
* most "open source LLM models" are not open source according to the definition
https://blog.mailfence.com/email-header/
* explaination of e-mail header
18.9.2024
https://www.itpro.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-could-go-bankrupt-in-12-months-if-it-doesnt-raise-some-serious-cash-but-is-the-microsoft-backed-ai-giant-too-big-to-fail
* OpenAI and it's cost problem
4.11.2024
https://www.octoparse.com/blog/is-web-crawling-legal-well-it-depends
* web crawling
??.11.2024
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/reliability-of-usb-flash-drives-questioned/
* USB stick unreliable
??.11.2024
https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/russlands-angriff-auf-europa
11.01.2025
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lutzfinger/2025/01/07/sam-altman---agi--ai-workforce-in-2025-the-battle-of-tech-giants/
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-hype-openai-silicon-valley-venture-capital-2024-3?op=1
* about Sam Altman
https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/Rpc9ACd6zCy3FssTj/openai-o1-llama-4-and-alphazero-of-llms
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/byNYzsfFmb2TpYFPW/o1-a-technical-primer
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/ai-data-foundry
https://www.deraktionaer.de/artikel/maerkte-forex-zinsen/bitcoin-im-wuergegriff-spd-plant-todesstoss-in-deutschland-20377392.html
SPD anti bitcoin
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/389997/artificial-intelligence-openai-google-microsoft-chatgpt-progress-scaling
* AI not really slowing down
https://time.com/7178328/is-ai-progress-slowing-down/
* AI slowing down ? (has some papers)
https://t3n.de/news/warnsignal-beben-langsam-ki-forscher-erdbebenrisiken-1634916/
https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Measure
* encyclopedia of mathematics is a great ressource
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-10-18/anthropic-ceo-thinks-ai-may-outsmart-most-humans-as-soon-as-2026
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/llms-wasting-energy-computation-terry-bollinger-wxuse
https://quantumcomputinginc.com/learn/lessons
* quantum computing tutorial
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/what-is-a-manager-2276096
* job role: manager
https://codingnest.com/the-little-things-speeding-up-c-compilation/
* C++ compilation speed
https://accu.org/journals/overload/32/183/wu/
* C++ template meta programming
https://dnyuz.com/2025/08/23/the-long-painful-downfall-of-intel/
https://youtu.be/QErV-l1zDqc?si=o2JoXoSr4K_wGmys
* (German) Can AI cause human extinction?
---
(video) https://keenon.substack.com/p/why-even-sam-altman-wants-to-be-gary
* Gary Marcus interview
* OpenAI is constyl in a race to raise money (6 months runway)
(video) https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2534-why-generative-ai-is?utm_source=publication-search
* Peter Voss interview
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulocarvao/2025/08/24/are-we-heading-into-another-ai-winter/
* Field of AI : are we heading into another AI winter
https://ioaglobal.org/blog/entering-new-ai-winter/
* Field of AI : are we heading into another AI winter
https://www.thestack.technology/ai-winter-genai-openai-chatgpt/
* Field of AI : are we heading into another AI winter
https://youtu.be/z_PlyQAWT4g
* Boing 787
https://youtu.be/OY1nRMQ0m18?si=UuGvsYgizlfpNBvZ
* Air to Air Missile : sidewinder
https://youtube.com/shorts/QJVG5mbogo0?si=3BgGRcyqhdH6QrSB
game
https://aiguide.substack.com/p/magical-thinking-on-ai
* debunking AI
https://petapixel.com/camera-lens-filters-guide/
* photography
https://casmi.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2024/openais-quest-for-artificial-general-intelligence-vision-or-mirage.html
* OpenAI on road to "AGI"
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-chemical-weapons-generative-models-vx
* ML developed 40'000 toxic chemicals
https://kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/news/the-power-of-scale-in-machine-learning/
* About scaling law in ML
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