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Account age

11 yrs

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I do not believe human-level AI (artificial superintelligence, or the commonest sense of #AGI) is close at hand. AI has made breakthroughs, but the claim of AGI by 2030 is as laughable as claims of AGI by 1980 are in retrospect. Look how similar the rhetoric was in @LIFE in 1970!

387.6K views I do not believe human-level AI (artificial superintelligence, or the commonest sense of #AGI) is close at hand. AI has made breakthroughs, but the claim of AGI by 2030 is as laughable as claims of AGI by 1980 are in retrospect. Look how similar the rhetoric was in @LIFE in 1970!

163K views AI has 2 loud groups: “AI Safety” builds hype by evoking existential risks from AI to distract from the real harms, while developing AI at full speed; “AI Ethics” sees AI faults & dangers everywhere—building their brand of “criti-hype”, claiming the wise path is to not use AI.

LLMs like ChatGPT are an amazingly powerful breakthrough in AI and a transformative general purpose technology, like electricity or the internet. LLMs will reshape work and our lives this decade. They are not just a blurry photocopier or an extruder of meaningless word sequences.

86.6K views LLMs like ChatGPT are an amazingly powerful breakthrough in AI and a transformative general purpose technology, like electricity or the internet. LLMs will reshape work and our lives this decade. They are not just a blurry photocopier or an extruder of meaningless word sequences.

📊 Post performance

249.4K

Avg views / post

1.5×

Reach vs followers

Sep 2014

On X since

🔥 Top post: I’ve kept quiet on the @OpenAI fiasco, since I also don’t know w · 768.6K views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.05 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 0 video · 6 image · 12 text.

Follower / following

455×

Follows 370 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

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🔥 Top post I’ve kept quiet on the @OpenAI fiasco, since I also don’t know what’s going on, 🤷 but I can’t possibly support today’s interim CEO—the below in a thread on “50/50 everyone gets paperclipped & dies”—or a residue board that believes in these EA-infused fantasy lands. HT @vkhos… 768.6K❤ 1.2K🔁 185

Re: “Every major breakthrough in AI has been American”: America does itself no favors when it overestimates its specialness. Yes, the center of the AI industry is the US (California!), but many of the breakthroughs of (neural, gradient-b… 249.4K❤ 2K🔁 387 There are 2 mistakes you can make about LLMs: ① Thinking everything LLMs say is correct, they can reason, and with a bit more scale they’ll get us to superintelligence ② Thinking LLMs are good for almost nothing—they are FAR better at al… 160.7K❤ 745🔁 162 “The fact that [transformer neural nets] model language is probably one of the biggest discoveries in history. That you can learn language by just predicting the next word with a Markov chain—that’s just shocking to me,” Mikhail Belkin say… 319.6K❤ 1.1K🔁 211

LLMs like ChatGPT are an amazingly powerful breakthrough in AI and a transformative general purpose technology, like electricity or the internet. LLMs will reshape work and our lives this decade. They are not just a blurry photocopier or a… 86.6K❤ 547🔁 104 LLMs and other generative AI are enormously powerful, because they soak up, abstract, and can mashup the work of millions of humans. But they are only a bit more intelligent than an encyclopedia. Central to intelligence is the ability to l… 232.9K❤ 544🔁 96

I do not believe human-level AI (artificial superintelligence, or the commonest sense of #AGI) is close at hand. AI has made breakthroughs, but the claim of AGI by 2030 is as laughable as claims of AGI by 1980 are in retrospect. Look how s… 387.6K❤ 1.6K🔁 463 Reflecting again on how knowing all the architecture & equations of the Transformer model is really of no use at all in convincingly explaining to someone how an LLM like ChatGPT can write paragraphs of lucid text in response to a prom… 254.8K❤ 635🔁 108 But most AI people work in the quiet middle: We see huge benefits from people using AI in healthcare, education, …, and we see serious AI risks & harms but believe we can minimize them with careful engineering & regulation, just as… 235.9K❤ 681🔁 153

AI has 2 loud groups: “AI Safety” builds hype by evoking existential risks from AI to distract from the real harms, while developing AI at full speed; “AI Ethics” sees AI faults & dangers everywhere—building their brand of “criti-hype”… 163K❤ 506🔁 115 This is truly an opinion piece. Not even a cursory attempt is made to check easily refutable claims (“they may well predict, incorrectly”). Melodramatic claims of inadequacy are made not of specific current models but any possible machine … 435.1K❤ 954🔁 185 Dear @emilymbender—and @Abebab—you need to keep “reminding” people of your viewpoint because it is not an argument that is convincing to all or a self-evident truth. It is a particular academic position, which lots of people support but a … ❤ 646🔁 136

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2014 — 11 years ago.

👁️Averages 249.4K views per post.

📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

💬0.66% engagement rate.

🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

69/100

Good Credibility score

85%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 85% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~1.5× of followers engage each post) is around typical for X.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Verified account.
Established account (11+ years old).
0.66% engagement — below the ~14.4% typical for this size.

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Founder @stanfordnlp & cs224n—Senior Fellow @StanfordHAI—Prof. CS & Linguistics @Stanford—GP @aixventureshq—MTS @moonlake—Australian🇦🇺—Do #NLProc & #AI 👋

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