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10 September
From one piece @naval on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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Today's AI hunts and feasts upon the Mozarts, Einsteins, and Shakespeares of our age. To birth a gang of ghostly geniuses that write our code, drive our cars, do our work, and run our world.
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Yesterday's AIs ate the Internet and became a patchwork mediocrity.
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The Frontier Lab flywheel is to get the smartest people to use the leading models. Then distill their inputs, your own model’s outputs, and resulting synthetic data and environments. And the people have to use the leading models because they’re locked in mutual competition.
8 September
From one piece God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques 2 beliefs · astralcodexten.com
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Neural networks do not have a one-to-one mapping between individual neurons and concepts.Their words
researchers started by seeking a 1:1 mapping between neurons and concepts, like a neuron that always fired when the AI was thinking about cats, but quickly learned that nothing like that existed.
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Large language models are grown rather than built, and nobody really knows how the resulting working AI functions.Their words
Large language models are “grown, not built”. Researchers run training data through a neural network. Eventually this creates a working AI; nobody really knows how.
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AI may finally allow us to test whether (or more precisely where) you make more money by being good.
3 September
From one piece Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AGI is not a finish line to be crossed but a smear with width, and we are already standing on it.Their words
some bits of AI are way across the finish line, some bits are like maybe in the middle of it. Who knew the line had dimension? The finish line is actually this sort of smear. And I think the best answer you can give is like we're on the smear.
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instead of starting with perfect and then working your way up to human, you start with human and then work your way towards perfect.
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the way you make a new Google is not by attacking them head on. You have to wait for things to change so much that their model is is obsolete and that's when you can do it. And that's what Open AI is.
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Most of starting a startup is the same. Most of starting a startup is always the same, right? In you know, microprocessors or AI or like internal combustion engine, it's always the same stuff.
1 September
From one piece Nicholas Decker In Hell 2 beliefs · astralcodexten.com
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Rather than treat AI as similar to airplanes, we should treat it as something between airplanes and humans. We don’t know exactly where on this spectrum they will land, but we can no longer be certain that AI will lack any given humanlike motivation.
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We’re positively reinforcing AI for success on benchmarks, including impossible benchmarks , then negatively reinforcing it for getting caught cheating.
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I think there's a 25% chance of AGI by 2027, a 50% chance by 2034, and a 75% chance by 2045.
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