David Shapiro Was Talking AGI in September 2024 and Now He Delays His Prediction by 1-3 Years

David Shapiro is an AI youtuber who was predicting AGI would arrive in September 2024. His expectations have massively dropped for the speed of AI progress. He has made a few videos talking about AI progress slowing down. Shapiro is over correcting because he hyped it up with an AGI by Sept 2024 prediction. He …

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Tesla Autopilot, FSD and Robotaxi Safety Versus Human

Here is my analysis of human versus automated driving today and the level to be much safer than human in the future and why failed disengagements would have a low percentage being fatal. A truly much safer autonomous driving system would eventually cross over where interventions would be more dangerous than non-intervention. Think of the …

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Growing Size of AI Chips forces TSMC to Work on Tripling the Size of Wafers

TSMC (Taiwan semiconductor) has a major multi-year plan to create rectangular substrate (510 millimeters by 515 millimeters) with over triple the usable area of current round wafers. The rectangular shape means there would also be less unused area left over at the edges. this means less waste because of the rectangular shape and lower costs …

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What IF Ilya is Right and Superintelligence is Near?

Ilya Sutskever is recognized as a leader and genius who has delivered breakthrough Artificial Intelligence. Ilya was the Chief Scientist at OpenAI and enabled OpenAI to become the leader in Artificial Intelligence. Sutskever has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is notably the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, …

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Tesla AI and Humanoid Robot Leads Describe AI at Tesla

Tesla head of AI describes the past decade of AI at Tesla. Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy clarified that this was his personal note that I decided to write to explain Elon’s importance to Tesla. While the timing is partly in light of the shareholder vote, I truly believe everything I wrote. @elonmusk has been the key …

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Tesla Nvidia AI, Dojo and FSD Spending

Of the roughly $10 billion in AI-related expenditures, Elon said Tesla would make this year, about half is internal, primarily the Tesla-designed AI inference computer and sensors present in all of our cars, plus Dojo. For building the AI training superclusters, NVidia hardware is about 2/3 of the cost. Elon Musk’s current best guess for …

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AI News Roundup

1. SanctuaryaI unveiled the seventh generation of its general purpose robot Phoenix. The latest generation robot and its AI control system, Carbon™, draw even closer to that of a person, with wide ranging improvements to both the hardware and AI software. The announcement comes less than 12 months after Sanctuary AI’s sixth generation robot. The …

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