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The advertised Azure Databricks pricing for NCas_T4_v3 series (NVIDIA T4 GPUs) is incorrect on the website. See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/databricks/

The advertised prices are much lower than they should be. The basic formula for Databricks is:

(Total Price) = (VM Price) + (DBU Price)

I am not sure if they are billing less than they should be or billing more than they advertise. If you used this series on Azure Databrick you may want to check your billing.

I am seeking recommended readings regarding the possibility of creating AGI (artificial general intelligence). In particular, I would like to read intelligent, scientifically supported arguments by experts across the spectrum from those who believe AGI is in the very near future to those who believe it is impossible. It would also be interesting to read older sources to see how perspectives have changed over time.

To clarify, I am mostly interested in reading scientific/technical arguments about if AGI can be created, not ethical/moral arguments about if AGI should be created.

I am interested in finding a job at a company that is having a positive impact in the world. I think this probably rules out FANG (MAMAA?) companies. Does your work make at least a small contribution to a better world? If so, where do you work?

It seems a lot of people in tech believe the ability for anybody to share largely unmoderated content on large social media platforms is very important for free/open online communication. At the same time you could argue there is a desire/need to combat spam, disinformation campaigns, propaganda, hate speech, AI generated content, etc.

Much of the discussion around content moderation is about the many challenges, sometimes suggesting it is an impossible problem to solve. A lot of discussion also suggests content moderation is inherently bad because “free speech”. However, lots of problems are technically challenging and/or ethically challenging (e.g., self driving cars), but are not discussed the same way.

A perfect solution to content moderation likely does not exist, but I am curious what companies are working solely on providing content moderation as a service and what innovative solutions are being proposed. Also, what is the state of the art in content moderation research assuming such a thing exists?