Dent(able) | July 2023
We are excited to introduce Dent(able) — your monthly gateway to the thoughts, readings, and shared wisdom of our vibrant community. Each monthly edition delivers a feast of insights, innovations, and inspirations that Denters are chewing on in their day-to-day lives. Get ready for an intellectual lift.
Navigating AI X-risk solutions can be daunting. This document provides a roadmap to guide you: helping identify applicable scenarios, pinpoint dimensions your solution alters, and measure scenario improvement. By preventing oversight and refining your ideas, it serves as a valuable sanity check in the vast and complex landscape of AI X-risk.
What If You Could Taste the Metaverse?
Yes — we will be able to soon dine together in the metaverse (Dent 2025, maybe?). Thanks to scientists who have been working on taste-simulation technologies for years, they have now artificially generated “virtual” minty, sweet, sour, salty, and bitter flavors plus chewy and crunchy textures, via electrode-embeded gadgets and electrical muscle stimulation jaw patches.
Listen to These Photographs of Sparkling Galaxies
Astrophysicist and musician, Matt Russo, harmonizes science and sound, transforming cosmic images into auditory experiences. His team uses Python-based software to assign musical elements to various celestial wavelengths, creating a symphonic tour across celestial bodies. The result is a guided auditory journey through space.
AI — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Denter Scott Mauvais recently presented at SF Tech Week. He discusses the duality of AI — its potential for both bias perpetuation and positive impacts. Scott dives into AI’s bias sources and mitigation strategies while highlighting AI’s role in addressing environmental issues and enhancing accessibility for people with disabilities.
Tap into the Wisdom of Your “Inner Crowd”
Dive into research that explores the “wisdom of crowds” phenomenon. The underlying principle is straightforward: when a group’s guesses are diverse and independent, the process of averaging cancels out individual errors, enhancing the overall accuracy. Can then the crowd’s wisdom actually come from the balanced harmony of diverse and independent voices?
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