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I'm not an AI engineer or a researcher, no matter what my job title says. I'm just a particle physicist on the run.

There is a 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance that my shoe will kill us all in the next 10 years. But considering how improbable the emergence of life in this universe was… I think we should take the shoe seriously. 👟

Two random thoughts I cannot hold anymore: 1. AI can do tasks which takes a long time to senior dev, that famous METR plot. Great. Cgg. How many SUCH tasks do you have to solve during one year? Where are the customers who would use this amount of software?

I never stop being fascinated by the gap between academia and industry. “Look how useful it is.” “Look how interesting it is.” Both sentences are important. And yet one is heard in one field, and the other in the other. Sometimes I wonder: do these two worlds even know what the other one is saying?

I've wanted to have a conversation about AI with a philosopher for a long time. My philosopher friend isn't interested. He says there's no philosophy in AI. And philosophers who work in AI and claim otherwise? According to him, they're just sellouts. And I don't know what to make of it.