AGI Baby
It feels symbolic that Sam Altman is having his first around the same time an AGI is being born. There is definitely a fiction idea in an AI engineer translating insights from his developing child onto the AI he's building.
On Monday 6/15, I'm hosting a workshop to kick off a reading group for classic essays: RSVP here.
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