(Every Compliance department in financial industry is essentially a U.S. government proxy, but management or other teams can push back against Compliance and not automatically go to prison. Binance and CZ have essentially waived that going forward.)
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AI Monitoring Compliance and Legal Obligations for Organizations
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If you hire me as a consultant, and I tell you you should probably improve your onboarding flow, and you don’t, you will not go to prison. Would be crazy. If your monitoring consultants tell you to improve your onboarding flow, and you don’t, you have agreed to go to prison.
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US Government Surveillance Proxy at Binance Platform Monitoring
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As a specific example of speech which the ~contract compels, the monitoring apparatus getting installed in Binance is not the US government but is essentially their proxy. It will make policy recommendations which proxy for US’ aims.
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Function Calling Now Available on Lifeboat Platform
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Function calling is now available on the lifeboat. You can enforce JSON responses by specifying response_format: { type: "json_object" }. Or, you can define a specific schema by adding a tool with type function. https://
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Open Research as Essential Path to AI Progress
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This is why open research is the real path to any meaningful progress in AI. Ideas and breakthroughs don’t happen in a vacuum.
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Compelled Speech Doctrine and Private AI Systems Regulation
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As one sub issue, consider the compelled speech doctrine. The USFG broadly can’t force private actors to say something they don’t believe. This includes performing work which embeds speech acts, like producing reports and analyses that would not exist but for compulsion.
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OpenAI Q* Breakthrough: AI Model Solves Math Problems
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“OpenAI researchers used the innovation to build systems that could solve basic math problems, a difficult task for existing AI models. Jakub Pachocki and Szymon Sidor, two top researchers, used Sutskever’s work to build a model called Q* (“Q-Star”)…” https://
theinformation.com/articles/opena
i-made-an-ai-breakthrough-before-altman-firing-stoking-excitement-and-concern
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Coinbase Leadership: Compliance and Regulatory Approach in Crypto
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I was involved with Coinbase for many years, and I was proud of @brian_armstrong and team for always taking the compliant approach. Even when it wasn’t always clear what the compliant approach was, they took every measure to follow the letter and spirit of the law. This came at
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OpenAI Q-Star breakthrough prompted CEO board confrontation
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Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO outster “The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q* (pronounced Q-Star), which some internally believe could be a breakthrough in the startup's search for superintelligence” https://
reuters.com/technology/sam
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MoE as Alternative to O(n) Complexity in LLMs
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Not O(n) here IIUC: http://
arxiv.org/abs/2311.10770
(And in general MoE seems like a way around O(n))