I was trying to figure out why many writing teachers seemed so annoyed at this tweet and realized they weren’t reading the context. I am clearly referring to college admissions essays. Sigh. I think I need to delete this.
ETHICS
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AI Capabilities and Limitations: Critics Must Engage Directly
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This isn't intended to be snarky, there are lots of things AI does terribly, by the way. But I have often been surprised by the things it does very well. We need more critics to actually engage with these systems so everyone can learn more about them.
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Red Team Your Own AI Beliefs: Empirical Testing for Critics
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I think a very useful thing for AI critics to do would be to "red team" their own beliefs by spending some serious time and effort (maybe with help) to see if they can get AI to do the things they say it can't. If they are right, that is very valuable benchmarking information.
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Aligning LLMs to Quote from Pre-Training Data
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9/ Aligning LLMs to Quote from Pre-Training Data – proposes techniques to align LLMs to leverage memorized information quotes directly from pre-training data.
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Experience versus intelligence: reframing expertise assessment
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I often find myself mentally swapping "smartest" for "most experienced", since "experience" helps imply that it's for a specific field, not everything
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Future AI Threat: When Humans Truly Fear Machines
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The Butlerian Jihad will start the moment people genuinely feel threatened by the machines. There's no risk of this happening with this generation of skin-deep human-mimicry bots, but eventually, one day, it will happen.
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Israeli Military Deploys Lavender AI System in Gaza Operations
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Some more info here https://
972mag.com/lavender-ai-is
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AI interaction feels magical but not quite perfect yet
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Honestly it feels pretty magical to use, like interacting with a person. Not quite smart enough to pull it off yet all the time, but close.
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AGI Safety: Level 7 Capability Containment Limits Questioned
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last night i had weird dreams about working on safe agi; we thought that we had a sound proof that capping inference at level 7 would be safe but discovered that level 7 agis can bootstrap themselves into level 21, and there are no safety theorems in this regime