hamishtodd1

I recently had the privilege of having my idea criticized at the London Institute for Safe AI, including by Philip Kreer and Nicky Case. Previously the idea was vague; being with them forced me to make the idea specific. I managed to make it so specific that they found a...

Epistemic status: research direction Equivariance is a way of enforcing a user-specified sense of consistency across inputs for a NN. It's a concept from computer vision which I think could be used to align AIs, or rather for building an interface/framework for aligning them. So far it has been applied...

I've been reading the excellent book The Dream Machine about ARPA and PARC, the research communities that invented the personal computer (before them computers were just tools for military research projects). Xerox PARC was managed by Bob Taylor, a great manager who drew on the management style of many great...