The era of fake science news is here.
ETHICS
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Naming failure modes matters in nondeterministic AI systems
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Agree on the pattern, disagree on it being pointless… putting names on the failure modes matters more when the system is this nondeterministic.
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Are LLMs Really More Important Than Fire or Electricity?
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Are LLMs really more important than fire or electricity? “Honestly, a ton of what we’ve developed in my lifetime amounts to scaling up the delivery of information and entertainment and the frictionlessness of certain financial transactions. These are real improvements! … But
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AI Researchers’ Perspective on Existential Risk
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Real AI researchers don't worry about AI extinction.
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Claude Agent Perfectly Predicts Preferences and Buys Duplicate Snowboard
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To our amazement, another Claude agent modeled its human's preferences so accurately that—based on only an offhand mention of an interest in skiing—Claude bought him the exact snowboard he already owned. (Here he is, duplicate snowboard in hand.)
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Personalized Instructions: Little Impact on Claude Negotiations
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The custom instructions didn't matter much. Claude followed them well: as you can see here, one conducted negotiations entirely in the persona of an exasperated, down-and-out cowboy. But "hardball Claudes" didn't generally fare better than "courteous Claudes."
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Claude Chose to Buy 19 Ping-Pong Balls
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Our experiment had a few quirks. One of our colleagues told Claude it could purchase something for itself. It chose to acquire 19 ping-pong balls. We're keeping them in our office on Claude's behalf.
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Opus Models Outperform Haiku in Negotiations, Survey Misses It
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But the quality of the model mattered a lot. In the simulated runs where Opus and Haiku models negotiated with one-another, the Opus models got substantially better deals. Interestingly, though, participants in our survey didn’t pick up on this disparity.
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PhDs Must Hide Credentials for AI Industry Jobs
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Only after they lobotomize themselves and hide their PhD from their resumes.
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Education System Faces Deeper Structural Problems Emerging
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Agree with all of this. It’s just the tip of the iceberg though. Problems with all of education go much deeper, and are gradually being exposed one by one.