This is an excerpt from what I wrote in 2015 when OpenAI was announced and all y'all journalists were lauding them as the benevolent souls who were going to save us from AI. "A white tech tycoon born and raised in South Africa during apartheid,..
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AI Safety Concerns: Lack of Diversity in Researcher Demographics
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along with an all white all male set of investors and researchers is trying to stop AI from “taking over the world” and the only potential problem we see is that “all the researchers are working on deep learning?”
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Public AI Assistant Workshop: Democratizing Productivity and Information Access
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AI has the potential to revolutionize productivity & equitable access to information worldwide. How can we make it a reality? Join tomorrow’s workshop exploring the potential of a public AI assistant with @StanfordOVAL
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US Policy Shift Prioritizes AI Innovation Over Safety
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"Clearly from JD Vance's speech, the U.S. policy has an unequivocal shift now. Safety is not going to be the primary focus but instead it's going to be accelerated innovation." @StanfordHAI Executive Director @russellwald was quoted in a @Reuters report
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Understanding AI: The Human Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence
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Join us tomorrow to learn the truth about how AI really works (hint: its people all the way down) 18h CET/12pm EST/ 20h EAT Watch: http://
twitch.tv/dair_institute About DLA: http://
datalabelers.org Support: https://
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Major Model Spec Update Emphasizes Customization and Intellectual Freedom
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Today we're sharing a major update to the Model Spec—a document which defines how we want our models to behave. The update reinforces our commitments to customizability, transparency, and intellectual freedom to explore, debate, and create with AI.
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AI Will Solve the Business Model of a Jobless Society
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À un moment ça sera 100% de la population. Mais je suis très confiant sur le fait qu'on trouvera des solutions : l'IA va régler tous les problèmes de notre époque dont celui du business model d'une société sans travail humain.
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Are We Special? Humanity’s Exceptionalism in the Age of AI
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not us though, we're special. right?…
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Training AI Models: Body Awareness and Physical World Capabilities
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"In the early days of @Anthropic, we taught the model, 'Hey, you actually don't have a physical body to operate in the physical world.' But at the same time, it was being trained on data that told the model, 'This is how you set an alarm.' And so the model would get extremely… pic.twitter.com/I9BoZ786s1
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 12 février 2025"In the early days of @Anthropic
, we taught the model, 'Hey, you actually don't have a physical body to operate in the physical world.' But at the same time, it was being trained on data that told the model, 'This is how you set an alarm.' And so the model would get extremely -
Prompt Injection Attempts with Invisible Bytes in AI Models
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I'm able to do basic prompt injections with the invisible bytes but I can't get it to work without explicit decoding hints. https://
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… The thinking models actually feel a bit more susceptible because they love puzzles and they notice the added bytes and get very