A group from Anthropic was at our neighborhood bar last night and tipped $0 on a $500 tab. Apparently Claude told them that tipping would be endorsing the alcohol industry and the bartenders' choice to participate in it. The bartenders were so pissed they made Claude name every shrimp in the kitchen, then sent it photos of them deep-fried
your untrained network can already tell apart cats and dogs!
a cool blog post by @esiamid about how today's architectures may have been selected from an evolutionary process:
I once said to my former team:
"I care less about what is the smartest thing our model can do than about whats the most stupid thing that it cannot do"
robustness is still a limitation to increased automation
Also, OpenAI's new VP of safety, Amelia Glaese, and head of core product, Thibault Sottiaux, are dating—which some current and former employees described as unusual given the tensions between safety and product.
Brockman says that "any perceived conflict of interest is being handled responsibly."