@sonyatweetybird: the smartest young people in sf were working on agi/alignment 5-10y ago. they are working on bci today. naomi is a tota…
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A tweet highlights that top young talent in SF is shifting from AGI/alignment to brain-computer interfaces, noting Naomi Bashkansky's resignation from OpenAI to join Conduit as a founding researcher working on non-invasive mind-reading models.
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the smartest young people in sf were working on agi/alignment 5-10y ago.
they are working on bci today.
naomi is a total star and is one of an explosion of young talent into the bci space recently. i’m very excited about what that means for the world in a decade. 🧠
Naomi Bashkansky (@NaomiBashkansky): Two weeks ago, I resigned from OpenAI to join Conduit as a founding researcher, where we’re training models to non-invasively read the human mind.
I’ve written some thoughts about what telepathy could look like by 2035 and how to get there:
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