hey wasn't this the same company that made a beautiful shiny "research" post about how AI evals should include error bars or something like that. or did they decide the CLT didn't apply here
individual reporting for post-deployment evals — a little manifesto (& new preprints!) tldr: end users have unique insights about how deployed systems are failing; we should figure out how to translate their experiences into formal evaluations of those systems.
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Individual experiences and collective evidence
Jessica Dai on theory for the world as it could be
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where are the bullshit "x% of experts believe" polls when you need them lol
perhaps this is a stupid question but given that ai safety has been a pretty vibrant (+ well funded) field for the last 5-10 years... how should we be thinking about the concern that (ai) catastrophe still is, allegedly, imminent
in middle school we were asked to write a short story in the style of edgar allan poe. as you might expect, all of our little pieces (even, especially, the ones the students thought were "good") were hilariously bad. anyway, i had forgotten about that homework until now x.com/sama/status/...
Sam Altman on X: "we trained a new model that is good at creative writing (not sure yet how/when it will get released). this is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right. PROMPT: Please write a metafictional literary short story" / X
we trained a new model that is good at creative writing (not sure yet how/when it will get released). this is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right. PROMPT: Please write a metafictional literary short story
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i don't work well under deadline pressure but i also don't work well without it. therefore,
The plan: Post your dissertation abstract online to rekindle a decades-long controversy about the utility of the humanities, turning your paper into the most-read publication in the history of your field
i just know these people would have been the biggest fans of japanese internment
one year ago today i got to break the news that kissinger died to the entire reboot editorial board. an absolutely thrilling moment
foreign interference is when women don't want to continue talking to me for more than 30 seconds
i am NOT seeing enough trolling about this "did you know that sometimes you can use the CLT for evals" be so for real right now
this is too mean of a take for twitter but that one thread where people are like "don't do a phd in AI, the field moves too fast, you'll be stuck, academia sucks"... sounds like lots of ppl are motivated primarily by glory/ ego and prob better for them not to be in the academic community anyway :^)
poetry and manifestos in an anarchist hackerspace.. still so psyched about the turnout for kernel magazine x lit crawl :^D
i spent months reading alignmentforum so you don't have to https://joinreboot.org/p/alignment
The Artificiality of Alignment
How are we actually “aligning AI with human values”?
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let me just say that talking about the importance of values pluralism is... well, clearly, not the same thing as actually being open to conflicting values and alternative proposals for the future ...! 🤨
this piece was so horrendous it singlehandedly cured my imposter syndrome about having anything interesting to say about AI https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/can-we-stop-the-singularity
how come male CS grad students all dress like the seaborn default color palette
somehow ai twitter got even worse so uh, if you have a good ai opinion pitch me? lol
jessica dai@jessica.bsky.social · 3y agoinsufferable ai twitter (all sides) is not here (yet) so in the meantime going to workshop my hot takes into the void
some truly unhinged "sf is a hellscape" discourse happening on twitter.... r u all ok lmao?
omg i tweeted the kernel 3 cfp and immediately got booted from all my twitter accts . too tired to go through the emotional journey of signing back in to all of them so here it is :D https://joinreboot.org/p/kernel-3-cfp
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this screenshot is the most concise summary of lesswrong-ai-xrisk culture that you'll ever find
insufferable ai twitter (all sides) is not here (yet) so in the meantime going to workshop my hot takes into the void