ryan_b

Motivation I want a more concrete concept than AGI[1] to talk and write with. I want something more concrete because I am tired of the costs associated with how big, inferentially distant, and many-pathed the concept of AGI is, which makes conversation expensive. Accounting for the bigness, inferential distance, and...

Just what it says on the tin. Covered most everywhere, but I found the quote in this Reuters article stuck out to me the most: > Newsom said the bill "does not take into account whether an AI system is deployed in high-risk environments, involves critical decision-making or the use...

I mean big in terms of number of tokens, and I am thinking about this question specifically in the context of training windows vs context windows. This question is inspired by an Andrew Mayne tweet covered in AI #80: Never Have I Ever: > Most AI systems are trained on...

I'm trying to learn about plasma separation techniques, and I just stumbled on a line of papers that don't seem particularly connected to the other lines of research I was looking into, and I would like to quickly get a sense of what it says without having to go through...

I have a simple model of the alignment vs. capabilities question. I am writing it down because after chewing on Michael Nielson's post about existential risk from AI, I thought it was great but was unsatisfied with with the idea an alignment dilemma. I wasn't the only person to feel...

Tabling the question of whether LK99 itself is a room temperature superconductor, I wonder about how we would commercialize it assuming it (or something similar) is, as rapidly as possible. I was reading Ben Reinhardt's Metalessons from the LK-99 Saga post, which raised the point that it normally takes a...

Over at Google, large language models have been plugged into physics simulators to help them share a world model with their human interlocutors, resulting in big performance gains. They call it Mind's Eye. This is how the authors describe the work: > Correct and complete understanding of properties and interactions...