Jascha Sohl-Dickstein on X: "Title: Advice for a young investigator in the first and last days of the Anthropocene Abstract: Within just a few years, it is likely that we will create AI systems that outperform the best humans on all intellectual tasks. This will have implications for your research and https://t.co/vnST8BbKdH" / Twitter

To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts imit (research preview) @imitationlearn Tweet Reply See new posts Conversation Jascha Sohl-Dickstein @jaschasd Title: Advice for a young investigator in the first and last days of the Anthropocene Abstract: Within just a few years, it is likely that we will create AI systems that outperform the best humans on all intellectual tasks. This will have implications for your research and career! I will give practical advice, and concrete criteria to consider, when choosing research projects, and making professional decisions, in these last few years before AGI. This is my current go-to academic talk. It's mostly targeted at early career scientists. It gets diverse and strong reactions. Let's try it here. Posting slides with speaker notes... -- The title is a play on a very opinionated and pragmatic book by the nobel prize winner ramon y cajal, who is one of the founders of modern neuroscience. To get you in the righ

@jaschasd: Title: Advice for a young investigator in the first and last days of the Anthropocene Abstract: Within just a few years, it is likely that we will create AI systems that outperform the best humans on all intellectual tasks. This will have implications for your research and career! I will give practical advice, and concrete criteria to consider, when choosing research projects, and making professional decisions, in these last few years before AGI. This is my current go-to academic talk. It's mostly targeted at early career scientists. It gets diverse and strong reactions. Let's try

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