Gm. When you’re reading this I will have just touched down in London. After London, I’m heading to Nice, France, where I’m praying that I still have access to social media and that the water is anywhere close to as blue as the water in our dopamine hit today.

— Stephen Flanders

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🏠 AI

OpenAI’s AI Alignment Plan

Back in May, OpenAI put forth the idea that a superintelligent AI that “exceeds expert skill level in most domains” could become a reality within the next 10 years.

Because there’s no guarantee this AI won’t nuke us into oblivion, so we have to take measures to control it now while we have the upper hand. In this regard, OpenAI recommends 3 actions:

• Some degree of coordination among the leading AI developers to ensure nobody is building anything too crazy.

• An international regulatory body to make sure that this coordination among AI companies happens.

• The technical capacity to make sure the superintelligence is safe.

The first two factors are actively underway, and now, OpenAI is going for the third.

The Superalignment Team

Enter the Superalignment team. Headed by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and alignment team lead Jan Leike, the new team will have access to 20% of OpenAI’s computing power.

The mission? Build a “roughly human-level automated alignment researcher”. Basically, build an AI that trains other AIs.

If that sounds familiar, that’s because it is.

It’s A Copycat World

That’s because it’s the exact method that OpenAI competitor Anthropic is using to train its models.

Build AI, humanly train AI, and then have that AI train other AI’s.

Obviously, there is no guarantee this works. It’s possible that the error-prone AI models mess up their training efforts, and at that point, it’s anybody’s guess what happens.

But, considering that two of the big players in AI are training their models this way, there must be some legitimacy to the idea.

Why should I care? Your life will be much better off if AI is aligned correctly.

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What else is going on?

• Threads is officially here.

• Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin is expanding internationally.

• Ontario is building the world’s biggest nuclear power plant.

• The Apple Car is going to have an absolutely dope sound system.

Stat: 80%: How much heat pumps reduce cooling’s climate impact. In other words, this is the best green technology that nobody is talking about.

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🤑 FUNDING FRIDAY

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🎙️Voice.ai

We have AI that generates text. We have AI that generates images. Now, with voice.ai, we have AI that generates audio. Specifically, an AI that lets users change and disguise their voices in real time. Pretty cool, and they’ve raised $6M to further the mission.

🩻 Neko Health

Daniel Elk founded Spotify, but now he has his sights on something even bigger. His new startup Neko Health is providing AI-powered full-body scans that help doctors detect skin diseases, cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, among other metabolic syndrome. Exciting stuff, and he’s just raised a $65M Series A for the company.

🎁 FINAL JEOPARDY

This Final Jeopardy question stumped every contestant. Can you get it right?

Category: Wordplay

Clue: Subtract a letter from the name of a keystroke found in computer commands and you get this violent reaction to social change.

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💉 DOPAMINE HIT

Hey, water is water.

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FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER

Backlash (from “backslash”).