David Duvenaud
@DavidDuvenaud
Machine learning prof @UofT. Former team lead at Anthropic. Working on generative models, inference, & latent structure.
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Some new speakers at our post-AGI workshop:
- @paulfchristiano on "A typical, reasonably-good future"
- @erikbryn on "Post-AGI Centralized Coordination" (i.e.
- Sean Lavelle of the U.S. Navy on "AGI and Military Strategic Instability"
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No one has a plan for human flourishing after AGI, nor a clear understanding of what’s even possible. So we’re hosting a 2-day workshop at LightHaven on these topics! Link below. 🧵
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New work with @AlecRad and @DavidDuvenaud:
Have you ever dreamed of talking to someone from the past? Introducing talkie, a 13B model trained only on pre-1931 text.
Vintage models should help us to understand how LMs generalize (e.g., can we teach talkie to code?). Thread:
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No one has a plan for human flourishing after AGI, nor a clear understanding of what’s even possible. So we’re hosting a 2-day workshop at LightHaven on these topics! Link below. 🧵
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The talk voted “most mind-blowing” at our workshop was on post-AGI values by @BerenMillidge. The main idea: cooperation and pro-social values could remain viable because they’re competitive. After all, they won in our Malthusian past!
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