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Three years ago people were laughing at LLM arithmetic mistakes. Today the Simons Foundation is starting up a fund to keep professional mathematicians from suiciding:

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/news/simons-foundation-laun...

Anyone still pretending this is normal technology is completely delusional. We're in the beginning of a singularity takeoff.

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> Under a partnership, the Simons Foundation, Anthropic and OpenAI will commit $15 million in combined funding and resources. The foundation will manage and award funding, including through an open call for proposals, to support workshops and initiatives that help researchers evaluate recent AI-assisted results, learn and use new tools, share perspectives and shape collective standards for AI use.

"Normal technology"?

Like a toaster that just toasts bread.

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