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In the week that software got reverse engineered, Sam Altman warned 6.1 Astra ‘tipped toward [breach risk], and Muse Wonder showed the race isn’t slowing, I try to step back and show where it is all going, on current trends. Agree or disagree, it is certainly interesting times. 0:00 Introduction 0:41 Part 1: The Forthcoming Breach 8:43 Part 2: Why the Labs Keep Racing 15:41 Part 3: Why the Next 18 Months Are Hard to Predict Sam Altman: the accident risk, Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair....
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