'We should install a sprinkler system'
'You're fear-mongering, there's no evidence that the building is even on fire'

Ok I'm about to go on

I'm attending the Technical AI Safety Conference today! Technical AI Safety Conference (TAIS)
I'm giving a talk about Research Communication at 13:30 Tokyo time (in 2.5h), it'll be live streamed here tais2024.cc

Pro tip: Take a 14 hour flight that puts you completely off the internet for basically all of April 1st

Well, it took a ton of work, but I've finally got this video to the stage of the production process where I hate it and want to scrap it and start over

Facebook no!

Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval.

For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the 'needle') into a corpus of…

If the world were not in various other ways on fire I would have started a kitchen appliance company by now. This is not in any way a joke, I have drawn up designs and bought parts

Scrolling through the news, I see a painted portrait of Alan Alda
'oh no'
Then I read the headline

In my experience people are a little too willing to dismiss terms as 'jargon'.

'Just say 'straight' like a normal person'

No, 'plumb', 'level', 'square' and 'true' all mean different, specific things

Ancient haiku:

Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Bluetooth is like that

Talking with some Tea Enjoyers in the US made me realise something: The English love tea the way Americans love cheese

Good thing there is no further room for AI systems to improve, so we can take a breath and figure stuff out now—otherwise things would get weird