Just a minor point on the Putin quote, as it comes up so often, he was talking to a bunch of schoolkids, encouraging them to do science and technology. He said similarly supportive things about a bunch of other technologies. I’m at >90% he wasn’t referring to AGI. He’s not even that committed to AI leadership: he’s taken few actions indicating serious interest in ‘leading in AI’. Indeed, his Ukraine invasion has cut off most of his chip supplies and led to a huge exodus of AI/CS talent. It was just an off-the-cuff rhetorical remark.
Strongly agree, upvoted.
Just a minor point on the Putin quote, as it comes up so often, he was talking to a bunch of schoolkids, encouraging them to do science and technology. He said similarly supportive things about a bunch of other technologies. I’m at >90% he wasn’t referring to AGI. He’s not even that committed to AI leadership: he’s taken few actions indicating serious interest in ‘leading in AI’. Indeed, his Ukraine invasion has cut off most of his chip supplies and led to a huge exodus of AI/CS talent. It was just an off-the-cuff rhetorical remark.
Oh that’s fun, thanks for the context!