Your food, water and power are controlled by electronic systems. Your criminal record, your employment and your bank account are controlled by electronic systems. Your ability to communicate with other people and…
If you're in the field, then you know: modern robotics is an AI problem more than anything else. If we have a rogue AI trying to get into a self-improvement loop and gunning for ASI? I'd expect that to be accompanied by…
Adolf Hitler didn't have robots to carry out his will. He used humans to do it. It's the old-fashioned way of doing things, but, why change what works?
Tesla also has its own NPUs for self-driving - and Tesla uses transformers for sensor fusion. My guess would be that the main use case for an NPU in iPhone just used to be image processing/computational photography.…
Humans had to get it drilled into them that "+12 -440" is a damn good line stat, and that keeping around dead code is bad, especially in the age of version control. Not too surprised that LLMs also don't "get it" by…
I almost never want to talk to an AI, because text is better for almost anything. But it's nice to have that "almost" corner case covered, no? Not to mention all the current "telephone bots" applications that could…
There are processes for teaching a model specific facts or specific behaviors. Including "respond to topic X with Y", if that's what you want. You could make a model that doesn't want to engage in "lunar landing was…
Yeah, it's good that open weights models can have their "filters" busted fairly reliably. Unlike whatever bone Anthropic has to pick with the very idea of biology. But that's a consequence of how the technology works -…
And China controls AI too. It's just that their idea of "safety" is "ideological safety", and their idea of "alignment" is "alignment to the party line". They're cool with open weight AIs being released. As long as…
If you're doing non-redundant tests and your uncertainty bars aren't shrinking, it's usually a skill issue. If it looks like a duck, it might be a duck - or a painting of one. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck,…
> One decision we made is to always give real users an escape hatch. Read the Docs very rarely issues outright blocks or bans to specific IPs or user agents. Instead, our "worst" is a JavaScript challenge, and if a user…
As a rule: feedback loops are overrated. They are, in fact, included in the projections - we'd be on track to ~2C by 2100 instead of ~3C by 2100 if they weren't. They just aren't that big. There is no "Make Earth Into…
Apple tried at AI integration and fumbled the bag repeatedly. In 2010s, they were among the "greats" of consumer AI. I don't think their actions now are "strategy" and not "skill issue".
We're not even looking at 5C of warming by 2100 realistically. Like, that was considered to be an unlikely extreme scenario in 2014 AR5, and also in the tightened down 2021 AR6, and things have happened since!…
"Destroying the ecosystem" is just FUD. And if you don't find "average AI research intern" impressive, I'm not sure what to tell you. Have the goalposts moved so far that open ended problem solving at "average CS…
"Quality of engagement" is as hard to measure as "length of engagement" is easy.
"Find someone to blame" is such a worthless thing. Whip the sea all day long - the waves don't care. Modern AI has more in common with an ocean wave than it does with a hammer or a gun. It does its own things. It…
Nope! If a tree was healthy and there was no reason to expect that it would fall, and you did nothing to make it fall? Then you're not responsible if it falls anyway. You're only responsible if it was you chopping it…
If you left a dog in your garage for a day, and came back to a scene of carnage -because the dog broke out of the garage, recruited a dozen neighborhood dogs to its cause, and then, working with the group, managed to…
The problem is, AI is closer to "a loosely harnessed force of nature" or "a poorly understood biochemical reaction" than it is to "software" in how it acts, and how predictable it is. AIs do what they do, and we don't…
- God, moments before casting Adam and Eve out of Heaven
ARC-AGI was never "if this benchmark is saturated, we're at AGI". It was always about crafting adversarial tests that humans are good at, but current AIs are bad at. Point out the gap, get AI teams to attack them. In…
Sometimes the thing being pushed as "the next big thing" is, in fact, the next big thing.
Replace "AI" with "humans" and you get the same exact issues. Believe it or not, engineers don't zero shot skyscrapers either. Which is why their work gets reviewed by more engineers. Which catches the issues before…
Why not? So far, every "AI will never be able to do X" is aging like fine milk. Or do you think that engineering is somehow more special than software development or math?
Your food, water and power are controlled by electronic systems. Your criminal record, your employment and your bank account are controlled by electronic systems. Your ability to communicate with other people and…
If you're in the field, then you know: modern robotics is an AI problem more than anything else. If we have a rogue AI trying to get into a self-improvement loop and gunning for ASI? I'd expect that to be accompanied by…
Adolf Hitler didn't have robots to carry out his will. He used humans to do it. It's the old-fashioned way of doing things, but, why change what works?
Tesla also has its own NPUs for self-driving - and Tesla uses transformers for sensor fusion. My guess would be that the main use case for an NPU in iPhone just used to be image processing/computational photography.…
Humans had to get it drilled into them that "+12 -440" is a damn good line stat, and that keeping around dead code is bad, especially in the age of version control. Not too surprised that LLMs also don't "get it" by…
I almost never want to talk to an AI, because text is better for almost anything. But it's nice to have that "almost" corner case covered, no? Not to mention all the current "telephone bots" applications that could…
There are processes for teaching a model specific facts or specific behaviors. Including "respond to topic X with Y", if that's what you want. You could make a model that doesn't want to engage in "lunar landing was…
Yeah, it's good that open weights models can have their "filters" busted fairly reliably. Unlike whatever bone Anthropic has to pick with the very idea of biology. But that's a consequence of how the technology works -…
And China controls AI too. It's just that their idea of "safety" is "ideological safety", and their idea of "alignment" is "alignment to the party line". They're cool with open weight AIs being released. As long as…
If you're doing non-redundant tests and your uncertainty bars aren't shrinking, it's usually a skill issue. If it looks like a duck, it might be a duck - or a painting of one. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck,…
> One decision we made is to always give real users an escape hatch. Read the Docs very rarely issues outright blocks or bans to specific IPs or user agents. Instead, our "worst" is a JavaScript challenge, and if a user…
As a rule: feedback loops are overrated. They are, in fact, included in the projections - we'd be on track to ~2C by 2100 instead of ~3C by 2100 if they weren't. They just aren't that big. There is no "Make Earth Into…
Apple tried at AI integration and fumbled the bag repeatedly. In 2010s, they were among the "greats" of consumer AI. I don't think their actions now are "strategy" and not "skill issue".
We're not even looking at 5C of warming by 2100 realistically. Like, that was considered to be an unlikely extreme scenario in 2014 AR5, and also in the tightened down 2021 AR6, and things have happened since!…
"Destroying the ecosystem" is just FUD. And if you don't find "average AI research intern" impressive, I'm not sure what to tell you. Have the goalposts moved so far that open ended problem solving at "average CS…
"Quality of engagement" is as hard to measure as "length of engagement" is easy.
"Find someone to blame" is such a worthless thing. Whip the sea all day long - the waves don't care. Modern AI has more in common with an ocean wave than it does with a hammer or a gun. It does its own things. It…
Nope! If a tree was healthy and there was no reason to expect that it would fall, and you did nothing to make it fall? Then you're not responsible if it falls anyway. You're only responsible if it was you chopping it…
If you left a dog in your garage for a day, and came back to a scene of carnage -because the dog broke out of the garage, recruited a dozen neighborhood dogs to its cause, and then, working with the group, managed to…
The problem is, AI is closer to "a loosely harnessed force of nature" or "a poorly understood biochemical reaction" than it is to "software" in how it acts, and how predictable it is. AIs do what they do, and we don't…
- God, moments before casting Adam and Eve out of Heaven
ARC-AGI was never "if this benchmark is saturated, we're at AGI". It was always about crafting adversarial tests that humans are good at, but current AIs are bad at. Point out the gap, get AI teams to attack them. In…
Sometimes the thing being pushed as "the next big thing" is, in fact, the next big thing.
Replace "AI" with "humans" and you get the same exact issues. Believe it or not, engineers don't zero shot skyscrapers either. Which is why their work gets reviewed by more engineers. Which catches the issues before…
Why not? So far, every "AI will never be able to do X" is aging like fine milk. Or do you think that engineering is somehow more special than software development or math?