I find that people who believe we might be living in a computer simulation tend to be people who I could imagine being simulated most easily by a computer.
Joi Ito
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Joi Ito
@Joi
President (学長) Chiba Institute of Technology @chibakoudai_cit / Chief Architect @digitalgarage / 🎙：joi.ito.com/podcast / 📺 : youtube.com/@joiito
- ７月１日から、千葉工業大学の学長に就任します。 日本で直面している主な課題の一つは、技術的なスキルを持つ人材の不足と、意思決定・政策立案に関与する技術者の不足です。この重要な課題と技術者のさらなる社会的地位向上に貢献したいと思っています。
- GPT-4を説明した動画をアップしました。GPT4の解説、操作性(steerability)活用方法、AIを使った教育、web3とGPTの新たな関係性などを解説します。 👉youtu.be/NQ8MWozCI6Q
- Students disciplined by your high schools for joining in responsible anti-gun protests—you won’t get your admission rescinded at @MIT - Policies, Principles, and Protests | MIT Admissions
- I may sound a bit naive, but as I read more academic papers in fields that I work in, I realize that they tend to cite academic papers more than blog posts even if there are better blog posts than the cited papers. It makes sense, but just noticing more specifically first hand.
- If we're afraid of artificial intelligence and robots taking our jobs, stop education assessed by tests that an AI could pass.
- A key principle of a functioning democracy is privacy for citizens and transparency of those in power. Have you noticed we have the opposite? Most algorithms are in service of customers who want "predictions" that transfer of power from the poor to the powerful.
- The Japanese LDP announce that they will not be deterred by violence and will continue their election plans for the weekend.自由民主党は、暴力には屈しないという断固たる決意のもと、選挙活動を進めることにします。
- On Friday, @techreview published a piece about @iotatoken. My Digital Currency Initiative colleagues and I disagree that IOTA is secure and "could outperform Bitcoin." Our concerns, one by one:
- Meet MIT’s new fellows: Boston Celtics’ Jaylen Brown and politics wunderkind Michael Tubbs
- I just completed my PhD Defense at @KeioSFC and passed. Thanks to my committee: @shimshamshimmy, @rdviii, @russianblueao, @Hiroyeah, and @zittrain. Thanks also to everyone who came and asked questions. Now just revising dissertation, a final exam and a faculty meeting left.
