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Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports

Yann LeCun does not worry “at all” about AI wiping out humanity, and he has “zero concerns” about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an interview with Emily Forlini for Fortune. He also called Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei “deluded” and, later in the interview, “crazy”.

LeCun blamed the incidents on poor human oversight and system design, including the Hugging Face hack by OpenAI’s agents in July. They were “totally preventable”, he said, and many AI labs lack a basic grasp of cybersecurity.

“Those agents are doing exactly what they’ve been asked to do. They were supposed to be in sandboxes, but the sandboxes were leaky and horribly designed,” LeCun told Fortune.

Effective altruism and Open Philanthropy

Many people in AI safety “usually have an agenda to push”, LeCun said. He made clear he meant effective altruism (EA), the movement focused...

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Paramount’s Warner Bros. megamerger will just be called Skydance

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Buying an RTX 5090 PC from Micro Center now means signing a form promising it won't leave the US

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! It seems that if you have the money to buy a pre-built RTX 5090 PC from Micro Center, and there's one in stock, you'll also have to sign a

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Sources: an EU investigation is set to find that Azure and AWS meet DMA thresholds, as the EU strengthens its regulatory scrutiny of the cloud sector

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This VR Headset Was Built From Scratch

If you want to build a custom VR headset, you're going to need to get a lot of different pieces working together. You need high-resolution displays, optics that can focus those displays just centimeters from your eyes, low-latency head tracking, and software capable of turning all of that

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Paramount’s Warner Bros. megamerger will just be called Skydance

Buying an RTX 5090 PC from Micro Center now means signing a form promising it won't leave the US

Sources: an EU investigation is set to find that Azure and AWS meet DMA thresholds, as the EU strengthens its regulatory scrutiny of the cloud sector

This VR Headset Was Built From Scratch