it’s easy to forget when you’re young that life is a marathon

just like huberman recommends, I wake up and spend 5-10 min looking directly into my Apple Vision Pro for the health benefits

.TIME article from Will Henshall about our work on catastrophic risk benchmarking and unlearning!

time.com/6878893/ai-art…

Can hazardous knowledge be unlearned from LLMs w/o harming other capabilities?

Scale AI and CAIS are releasing Weapons of Mass Destruction Proxy (WMDP), an eval for catastrophic AI risk & a way to unlearn this knowledge.

📝arxiv.org/abs/2403.03218
🔗wmdp.ai

the startup ecosystem is, more so than any other time in its history, in an era of hard tech (space, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, AI)

spaceX, tesla, openai, waymo have all brought sci-fi to the present, and are inspiring a new generation of tech ambition.

exciting!

compute and data are the currency of the future

this morning, in a flurry, I got into a waymo and said “hey—for alexandr. how are you?”

then, realizing I just spoke to a driverless car, looked around to make sure nobody saw me

crawled into the waymo, closed the door, and breathed a sigh of relief in my sweet, sweet solitude

waited until a long business trip to try it out—

the Apple Vision Pro on a plane / while traveling is ridiculously good—especially for working

basically a gigantic monitor anywhere you go (plane, hotel, everywhere)

double your productivity everywhere you go

my tea collection at home

just removed all the alcohol too

we’re teamaxxing in casa wang

We’re launching a big update to Scale GenAI Platform, the AI platform for enterprises.

It enables you to use any model for any use case using YOUR data. It comes with:
🤖 model fine-tuning + customization
⚖️ test & eval
📑 RAG
🔌 data connectors
& more!

after traveling like crazy for the past few years

i’ve realized most of the people who are fun to talk to are in the Bay Area

which makes living in SF extremely convenient :)

we are cooking with gas Scale AI 📈📈

we are hiring btw (obligatory)

I recently sat down with General James E. Rainey, commanding general of U.S. Army Futures Command.

He is a forefront expert on the future of combat.

We discuss:
- AI and its implications on natl security
- The Ukraine War & how conflict has changed
- AI deterrence

the 2 years of life where the greatest human potential is lost are the first 2 years entering the workforce

everyone has a sharp realization that nobody actually cares about their work—the workplace is a theater to avoid responsibility & pass blame

startups are different though

only a very small % of the population truly understands how quickly AI will improve in the coming years

and how much will change as AI models solve reasoning, coding, multimodality, tools, etc

most predictions are wrong. even with all the hype, AI is still underrated