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One True Love
We have long been waiting for a version of this story, where someone hacks together the technology to use Generative AI to work the full stack of the dating apps on their behalf, ultimately finding their One True Love. Or … Continue reading
AI #50: The Most Dangerous Thing
In a week with two podcasts I covered extensively, I was happy that there was little other news. That is, until right before press time, when Google rebranded Bard to Gemini, released an app for that, and offered a premium … Continue reading
On the Debate Between Jezos and Leahy
Previously: Based Beff Jezos and the Accelerationists Based Beff Jezos, the founder of effective accelerationism, delivered on his previous pledge, and did indeed debate what is to be done to navigate into the future with a highly Worthy Opponent in … Continue reading
On Dwarkesh’s 3rd Podcast With Tyler Cowen
This post is extensive thoughts on Tyler Cowen’s excellent talk with Dwarkesh Patel.
AI #49: Bioweapon Testing Begins
Two studies came out on the question of whether existing LLMs can help people figure out how to make bioweapons. RAND published a negative finding, showing no improvement. OpenAI found a small improvement, bigger for experts than students, from GPT-4. … Continue reading
Childhood and Education Roundup #4
Before we begin, I will note that I have indeed written various thoughts about the three college presidents that appeared before Congress and the resulting controversies, including the disputes regarding plagiarism. However I have excluded them from this post.
AI #48: The Talk of Davos
While I was in San Francisco, the big head honchos headed for Davos, where AI was the talk of the town. As well it should be, given what will be coming soon. It did not seem like anyone involved much … Continue reading
Monthly Roundup #14: January 2024
There’s always lots of stuff going on. The backlog of other roundups keeps growing rather than shrinking. I have also decided to hold back a few things to turn them into their own posts instead.
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AI #47: Exponentials in Geometry
The biggest event of the week was the Sleeper Agents paper from Anthropic. I expect that to inform our thoughts for a while to come, and to lay foundation for additional work. We also had the first third of the … Continue reading
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On Anthropic’s Sleeper Agents Paper
The recent paper from Anthropic is getting unusually high praise, much of it I think deserved. The title is: Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training. Scott Alexander also covers this, offering an excellent high level explanation, … Continue reading
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