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We recorded 4 claims from this post. 3 were checked against evidence. 1 can’t be checked. 2 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (4)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
Observation
“Bing,powered by Dall-E 3, was an even bigger loser, drawing “Hinton vs LeCun vs Ng vs Tegmark, boxing” with four boxers not boxing, not one of them looking remotely like any of our heroes:”
Our reading: Bing powered by DALL-E 3, prompted to draw Hinton, LeCun, Ng and Tegmark boxing, produced four boxers not boxing and resembling none of the people named.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: No visual inspection was possible.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
Observation
“Actually, there was one clear overall winner: Tegmark. As much as Ernie Davis and I utterly disagreed with Tegmark’s more technical map of the world/LLM world models paper a few weeks ago, pretty much every word he said this week about regulation was true.”
Our reading: Nearly everything Tegmark said that week about AI regulation was true.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: The evaluable reading concerns factual substance; the broader endorsement also contains opinion.
Assessment: SupportedSaid
Forecast
“And I do mean “we”; what the EU decides will affect all of us.”
Our reading: The EU's decision on regulating generative AI will affect people everywhere, not just in the EU.
Settled before its deadline Evidence as of
Limitation: Support depends on reading all of us as worldwide relevance rather than a literal claim about every person.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“If you know anyone in the EU government, now is the time to let them know that you don’t want big tech to run the world.”
Our reading: People who know anyone in the EU government should tell them now that they do not want big tech to run the world.
No horizon
Scope: if you know anyone in the EU government
Held from this post (2)
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