Today feels like a really cathartic end to a hectic two weeks. elicit.com is now fully out of beta, and I spent a bunch of time talking about long term plans and ways to improve how we work

So glad to work here, so much love to everyone at Ought ♥️♥️♥️

Elicit is building a tool to automate scientific literature review tcrn.ch/3RztXbz by @kyle_l_wiggers

1/ Announcing our spinoff from Ought into a public benefit corporation, our $9 million seed round, and a much more powerful Elicit! This new Elicit takes the components of the popular literature review workflow and extends them to automate more research workflows.

2/ You can now upload up to 100 of your own papers to extract data from. Great for automating the screening or extraction steps of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

7/ There is so much left to do! Help us build intuitive and general interfaces that can run language models at high accuracy and superhuman scale to automate important research - elicit.com/careers

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Working to get here has been an amazing journey! Many early mornings and late nights spent making a tool that intends to be like the green revolution for the tree of knowledge A little thread on my thinking on Elicit as a product:

Elicit aims to accelerate and augment human reasoning. To that end, we've started by trying to make high quality literature review go from a rarity to a commodity. Any researcher should be able to look at a new problem area, and get up to speed in days instead of weeks

The next chapter of Elicit begins

The Ought board - Paul Christiano Owain Evans and Owen Cotton-Barratt - reflected on how to accomplish Ought's goal of scaling up good reasoning and decided to create a new public benefit corporation ought.org/updates/2023-0…

My very first phd student, Andreas Stuhlmüller, founded Ought after leaving CoCoLab. Ought Gad done amazing work as a nonprofit lab, that helped me see the power of LLMs. I’m excited for their next chapter as Elicit!! (And in a new role for me I’m an “angel”)

Now that Elicit is an independent company let's review our mission - what is scaling up good reasoning & why do we care? blog.elicit.com/mission/

The core bets Elicit is making are on systematicity, transparency, and unboundedness blog.elicit.com/core-bets/

People often ask - how does Elicit relate to AI Safety? Here's my answer In brief, the two main impacts of Elicit on AI Safety are improving epistemics and pioneering process supervision. blog.elicit.com/ai-safety/

1/ Can large language models detect and correct their own hallucinations when summarizing academic papers? In our new paper, we explore a new method we call factored verification to help answer this question. Blog: blog.elicit.com/factored-verif…

New paper with Charlie George on how to measure and reduce hallucination using task decomposition Blog post: blog.elicit.com/factored-verif… Article: arxiv.org/abs/2310.10627 🧵 has the main findings

The "Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy" is now live! $25k in prizes Lots of great questions in the post: Automation of wisdom - What is the nature of the sort of good thinking we want to be able to automate? How can we distinguish the type of thinking

Folks at Ought are amazing man. Think its one of the few that are focusing more on how to innovate in AI via interface paradigms beyond a chatbot interface. A Library and Tutorial for Factored Cognition with Language Models | Ought ought.org/updates/2022-1…