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AI #63: Introducing Alpha Fold 3

It was a remarkably quiet announcement. We now have Alpha Fold 3, it does a much improved job predicting all of life’s molecules and their interactions. It feels like everyone including me then shrugged and went back to thinking about … Continue reading

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AI #62: Too Soon to Tell

What is the mysterious impressive new ‘gpt2-chatbot’ from the Arena? Is it GPT-4.5? A refinement of GPT-4? A variation on GPT-2 somehow? A new architecture? Q-star? Someone else’s model? Could be anything. It is so weird that this is how … Continue reading

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Q&A on Proposed SB 1047

Previously: On the Proposed California SB 1047. Text of the bill is here. It focuses on safety requirements for highly capable AI models. This is written as an FAQ, tackling all questions or points I saw raised. Safe & Secure … Continue reading

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AI #61: Meta Trouble

The week’s big news was supposed to be Meta’s release of two versions of Llama-3. Everyone was impressed. These were definitely strong models. Investors felt differently. After earnings yesterday showed strong revenues but that Meta was investing heavily in AI, … Continue reading

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On Llama-3 and Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast with Zuckerberg

It was all quiet. Then it wasn’t.

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RTFB: On the New Proposed CAIP AI Bill

A New Bill Offer Has Arrived Center for AI Policy proposes a concrete actual model bill for us to look at.

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On the 2nd CWT with Jonathan Haidt

It was clear within the first ten minutes this would be a rich thread to draw from. In my childhood and education roundups, and of course with my own kids, I have been dealing with the issues Haidt talks about … Continue reading

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AI #58: Stargate AGI

Another round? Of economists projecting absurdly small impacts, of Google publishing highly valuable research, a cycle of rhetoric, more jailbreaks, and so on. Another great podcast from Dwarkesh Patel, this time going more technical. Another proposed project with a name … Continue reading

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Notes on Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast with Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken

Dwarkesh Patel continues to be on fire, and the podcast notes format seems like a success, so we are back once again.

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On the Gladstone Report

Like the the government-commissioned Gladstone Report on AI itself, there are two sections here. First I cover the Gladstone Report’s claims and arguments about the state of play, including what they learned talking to people inside the labs. I mostly … Continue reading

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