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Hinton vs LeCun vs Ng vs Tegmark vs O

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)

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  1. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “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:”

    What we tested: 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.

  2. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “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.”

    What we tested: Nearly everything Tegmark said that week about AI regulation was true.

  3. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    “And I do mean “we”; what the EU decides will affect all of us.”

    What we tested: The EU's decision on regulating generative AI will affect people everywhere, not just in the EU.

    What happened: In this section Anthropic expressly attributes watermarking to EU AI Act compliance and states that it applies the policy globally. This establishes a concrete worldwide development-policy consequence, while leaving rollout timing and future regional approaches open. (Anthropic, )

  4. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “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.”

    What we tested: People who know anyone in the EU government should tell them now that they do not want big tech to run the world.

Held from this post (2)

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