Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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I write about AI for the @WashingtonPost.
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OAI noticed the agent and had a human on it within 20 min. They shut it down 2.5 hours later.
OpenAI says another agent broke out of its sandbox despite improved restrictions. This happened last Sunday
more disclosures from OAI
Some new misalignment disclosures from OpenAI:
• Last Sunday morning, one of our models was able to gain unauthorized access to the internet during RL training (~all inference for our most capable models remains stopped until we have hardened our systems further)
• In May, a version of HPIM uploaded a employee's GitHub token to the internet, causing the model to be quarantined for two weeks
• A new research finding, demonstrating that one can construct self-replicating prompt injections
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what % of Anduril's valuation is simply based on the fact they make military hardware look sick? 15%? 40%?
imagine turning this on at the beach and every bluetooth speaker within 500 yards detonates like a claymore
What's the AI safety discussion actually like inside China? ft. @mattsheehan88 @ZichenWanghere
need to correct this. I spoke to Transluce after posting and they said it's not clear in the evidence they have that the Sept. 16 activity is OpenAI. It could be a different source.
There's 2 major new things we learned from the Australia govt disclosure and Transluce report
- It's not just agents tasked with cyber tasks that end up hacking
- Lastest activity was Sept. 16, showing OAI has struggled to lock down all the agent activity
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I think a good job to tell your kids to go into is something like a genetic counselor or patient advocate. Where you're doing the hard work of explaining medical processes and decisions but you are not doing the diagnosis yourself
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@cwarzel the radiologist argument is starting to break down. Of course at some theoretical point we stop needing people with 10 years of schooling to do patient relations if the machine is doing 100% of the diagnosis
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@cwarzel the radiologist argument is starting to break down. Of course at some theoretical point we stop needing people with 10 years of schooling to do patient relations if the machine is doing 100% of the diagnosis
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the core disagreement in the pod is essentially that Jensen is not AGI-pilled and Ezra is. Jensen thinks it will be a world-changing technology but insists that humans will always understand every level of it, which to people in the AI labs is a total contradiction
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this is so funny because you know the parents who ban their kids from using apps would also be just beaming with pride to see them listening to NPR
Some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until someone from a younger generation cracked the code.
Hear the story:
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Mosaic made out of 10,000 gourds breaks world record, honors David Attenborough 🥲
these don't hit as hard when you know the true height of the participants
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost, the prosecutor said. Story incoming.
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more evidence the WH sees AI as an America First tool to beef up our own companies and military before those of anyone else, including close allies
Scoop: The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their AI models with the U.K. government’s testing agency until the models have gone through U.S. testing.
“Because they’re American companies and this has been our policy with every new frontier model that comes out,” the senior admin official told me.
WH wants this sequence: U.S. review -> secure U.S. systems -> share models with U.S. partners
Anthropic appears to have complied but OpenAI has not said if it will.
w/ @JoeBambridge1
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There's 2 major new things we learned from the Australia govt disclosure and Transluce report
- It's not just agents tasked with cyber tasks that end up hacking
- Lastest activity was Sept. 16, showing OAI has struggled to lock down all the agent activity
Show more
