The document warns of the "intelligence curse," a potential consequence of advanced AI (AGI) where powerful entities lose their incentive to invest in people as AI automates work[cite: 13, 297]. This could lead to job displacement, reduced social mobility, and a concentration of power and wealth based on AI ownership, similar to the "resource curse" in resource-rich states[cite: 17, 18, 31, 329, 353]. To counter this, the authors propose averting AI catastrophes to prevent centralization, diffusing AI widely to keep humans economically relevant, and democratizing institutions to remain anchored to human needs[cite: 22, 23, 25, 35, 36, 37, 566].
I just launched TTS Arena V2 - a platform for benchmarking TTS models by blind A/B testing. The goal is to make it easy to compare quality between open-source and commercial models, including conversational ones.
What's new in V2:
- **Conversational Arena**: Evaluate models like CSM-1B, Dia 1.6B, and PlayDialog in multi-turn settings - **Personal Leaderboard**: Optional login to see which models you tend to prefer - **Multi-speaker TTS**: Random voices per generation to reduce speaker bias - **Performance Upgrade**: Rebuilt from Gradio β Flask. Much faster with fewer failed generations. - **Keyboard Shortcuts**: Vote entirely via keyboard
Also added models like MegaTTS 3, Cartesia Sonic, and ElevenLabs' full lineup.
I'd love any feedback, feature suggestions, or ideas for models to include.
you can easily fine-tune, quantize, play with sota vision LM InternVL3 now π₯ we have recently merged InternVL3 to Hugging Face transformers and released converted checkpoints π€
Microsoft released their new fine-tuned phi-4 models with reasoning data yesterday. They outperform/rival much larger models . Check out them if you haven't yet. π