Leopold and Pavel were out ("fired for allegedly leaking information") in April. https://www.silicon.co.uk/e-innovation/artificial-intelligence/openai-fires-researchers-558601
Nice job! I'm working on something similar.
> Next, I might get my agent to attempt the last three tasks in the report
I wanted to clarify one thing: Are you building custom prompts for the different tasks? If so, I'd be curious to know how much effort you put into these (I'm generally curious how much of your agent's ability to complete more tasks might be due to task-specific prompting, vs. the use of WebDriverIO and other affordances of your scaffolding). If not, isn't getting the agent to attempt the last three tasks as simple as copy-pasting the task instructions from the ARC Evals task specs linked in the report, and completing the associated setup instructions?
Cybersecurity seems in a pretty bad state globally - it's not completely obvious to me that a historical norm of "people who discover things like SQL injection are pretty tight-lipped about them and share them only with governments / critical infrastructure folks / other cybersecurity researchers" would have led to a worse situation than the one we're in cybersecuritywise...
I'd recommend participating in AGISF. Completely online/virtual, a pretty light commitment (I'd describe it more as a reading group than a course personally), cohorts are typically run by AI alignment researchers or people who are quite well-versed in the field, and you'll be added to a Slack group which is pretty large and active and a reasonable way to try to get feedback.
This is great. One nuance: This implies that behavioral RL fine-tuning evals are strictly less robust than behavioral I.I.D. fine-tuning evals, and that as such they would only be used for tasks that you know how to evaluate but not generate. But it seems to me that there are circumstances in which the RL-based evals could be more robust at testing capabilities, namely in cases where it's hard for a model to complete a task by the same means that humans tend to complete it, but where RL can find a shortcut that allows it to complete the task in another way. Is that right or am I misunderstanding something here?
For example, if we wanted to test whether a particular model was capable of getting 3 million points in the game of Qbert within 8 hours of gameplay time, and we fine-tuned on examples of humans doing the same, it might not be able to: achieving this in the way an expert human does might require mastering numerous difficult-to-learn subskills. But an RL fine-tuning eval might find the bug discovered by Canonical ES, illustrating the capability without needing the subskills that humans lean on.
Nice, thanks for this!
If you want to norm this for your own demographic, you can get a very crude estimate by entering your demographic information in this calculator, dividing your risk of hospitalization by 3 and multiplying the total by 0.4 (which includes the 20% reduction from vaccination and the 50% reduction from Paxlovid)
Anecdotally, I feel like I've heard a number of instances of folks with what pretty clearly seemed to be long Covid coming on despite not having required hospitalization? And in this UK survey of "Estimated number of people (in thousands) living in private households with self-reported long COVID of any duration", it looks like only 4% of such people were hospitalized (March 2023 dataset table 1)
Irving's team's terminology has been "behavioural alignment" for the green box - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.14659.pdf
The byte-pair encoding is probably hurting it somewhat here; forcing it to unpack it will likely help. Try using this as a one-shot prompt:
How many Xs are there in "KJXKKLJKLJKXXKLJXKJL"?
Numbering the letters in the string, we have: 1 K, 2 J, 3 X, 4 K, 5 K, 6 L, 7 J, 8 K, 9 L, 10 J, 11 K, 12 X, 13 X, 14 K, 15 L, 16 J, 17 X, 18 K, 19 J, 20 L. There are Xs at positions 3, 12, 13, and 17. So there are 4 Xs in total.
How many [character of interest]s are there in "[string of interest goes here]"?
If it's still getting confused, add more shots - I suspect it can figure out how to do it most of the time with a sufficient number of examples.
It seems like you're claiming something along the lines of "absolute power corrupts absolutely" ... that every set of values that could reasonably be described as "human values" to which an AI could be aligned -- your current values, your CEV, [insert especially empathetic, kind, etc. person here]'s current values, their CEV, etc. -- would endorse subjecting huge numbers of beings to astronomical levels of suffering, if the person with that value system had the power to do so.
I guess I really don't find that claim plausible. For example, here is my reaction to the following two questions in the post:
"How many ordinary, regular people throughout history have become the worst kind of sadist under the slightest excuse or social pressure to do so to their hated outgroup?"
... a very, very small percentage of them? (minor point: with CEV, you're specifically thinking about what one's values would be in the absence of social pressure, etc...)
"What society hasn’t had some underclass it wanted to put down in the dirt just to lord power over them?"
It sounds like you think "hatred of the outgroup" is the fundamental reason this happens, but in the real world it seems like "hatred of the outgroup" is driven by "fear of the outgroup". A godlike AI that is so powerful that it has no reason to fear the outgroup also has no reason to hate it. It has no reason to behave like the classic tyrant whose paranoia of being offed leads him to extreme cruelty in order to terrify anyone who might pose a threat, because no one poses a threat.
This is cool, although I suspect that you'd get something similar from even very simple models that aren't necessarily "modelling the world" in any deep sense, simply due to first and second order statistical associations between nearby place names. See e.g. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2008.01003.x , https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g6976kg .