I've seen many times where incentive misalignments create enormous problems, regardless of how much effort is spent on communicating the vision. So I don't agree its fine as long as everybody knows what they're signing on to.
@jeremyphoward
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OpenAI and Anthropic Staff Incentives Misaligned With Company Missions
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Both OpenAI (through "Profit Participation Units") and Anthropic offer compensation that's primarily based on profitability. Yet OpenAI is run by a non-profit and Anthropic is a PBC. This means that staff incentives are by definition not aligned with the companies' missions.
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Model Merging and Layer Count Expansion Research
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Yeah there's plenty of lit on model merging in general, and IIRC it's always looking at fine-tunes from a common base — but I've not seen any papers about increasing layer counts like this.
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Board governance and ethical responsibility in corporate charters
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Yes that's fair – although if I were a board member I wouldn't go against the company charter in the hope that a court might later decide it was actually OK to do so. In fact I wouldn't join a board where I disagreed with the charter.
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Random Discovery Behind Successful AI Model Upsizing Technique
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It's wild isn't it? I did a bit of a dive into this a few months ago and asked the guy who seemed to have done the first successful model upsizing where the idea came from. He told me it was just a random thing he tried and he had no particular reason to believe it would work.
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Yi-34B: Chinese company fine-tunes model for Chinese evals
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This is an Yi-34B fine-tune, which does very well on Chinese evals and is trained on lots of Chinese text. It's created by a Chinese company.
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Clear Leader Emerges in OpenAI CEO Poll Survey
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There's a very clear leader in the OpenAI CEO poll at this stage:
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Sentient Laundry AI and Existential Risk Concerns
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If Laundry Buddy ends up becoming sentient, driven by its desire for revenge on me, and destroys the world… …please forgive me.
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OpenAI Board Decision Barely Impacts Microsoft Share Price
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omg the openai board tanked msft's share price! it's at it's lowest level since… (checks notes) …wednesday.