When CAIS released their open letter ('Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority...') in May/June last year, I remember seeing some very bad takes on this website, but I'm having trouble tracking them down. Can you remember/find any good ones?

not working on any new videos. nope. not me. don't get your hopes up. no new videos in the pipeline. indefinite hiatus. please return to your drinks. videos?? what even is a video i'm on that Living Life shit. you couldn't get ME to make a 'youtube video' no sir

Three days left to apply to this!

'We should install a sprinkler system'
'You're fear-mongering, there's no evidence that the building is even on fire'

Ok I'm about to go on

I'm attending the Technical AI Safety Conference today! Technical AI Safety Conference (TAIS)
I'm giving a talk about Research Communication at 13:30 Tokyo time (in 2.5h), it'll be live streamed here tais2024.cc

Pro tip: Take a 14 hour flight that puts you completely off the internet for basically all of April 1st

Well, it took a ton of work, but I've finally got this video to the stage of the production process where I hate it and want to scrap it and start over

Facebook no!

Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval.

For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the 'needle') into a corpus of

If the world were not in various other ways on fire I would have started a kitchen appliance company by now. This is not in any way a joke, I have drawn up designs and bought parts

Scrolling through the news, I see a painted portrait of Alan Alda
'oh no'
Then I read the headline

In my experience people are a little too willing to dismiss terms as 'jargon'.

'Just say 'straight' like a normal person'

No, 'plumb', 'level', 'square' and 'true' all mean different, specific things

Ancient haiku:

Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Bluetooth is like that