Five Desiderata for an ASI-Relevant Agent Theory
A new framework defines five desiderata — descriptive, metareflective, comparative, aggregative, and constructive — that a theory of agents must meet to solve ASI alignment; existing theories from learning theory and game theory fall short of them. — lesswrong.com
Uncensored Ornith-9B Ships as GGUF Quants
An abliterated, uncensored version of the Ornith-9B multimodal model ships as GGUF quant files for local inference with tools like llama.cpp. — huggingface.co
Image-to-3D Model Turns Photos into Gaussian Splats
Comfy-Org's Idol model converts a single image into a 3D Gaussian splat scene, as a fine-tuned version of TripoSplat that runs in ComfyUI's existing workflows. — huggingface.co
AI Godfather Hinton: Better Off Without AI
For Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning AI 'godfather', humanity may turn out better off without AI: a major incident such as a power or financial blackout could hit within the next year or two, and frontier models should face mandatory pre-release testing. — theguardian.com
Nvidia Firmware Cripples Linux on RTX Spark Laptops
Native Linux on Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops runs roughly five times slower than Windows when plugged in, because a Windows-only firmware component locks the GPU clock; WSL keeps full performance while it runs on the Windows driver stack. — mindstudio.ai