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> Why aren't employees more honest about AI and concerns regarding it Because it’s being pushed by the c-suite and board, so most people aren’t in a position to push back. And it’s…

Yes, I am exhausted. Most of my company is obsessed with agents, because everyone wants to be seen as AI first. There is little thought going into usage. No care for long term main…

Maybe I am missing it, but I don’t see where AI solved anything in this anecdote. Rather, a team of medical professionals and a patient willing to advocate for herself did.

The reason that I’m looking for an out is that it’s turned everyone I work with into imbeciles. Nobody wants to think anymore. Coworkers are now just intermediaries for their LLMs.…

You generally don’t assign work to an intern just for the output, though.

Reviewing code is absolutely different from writing it, and in my opinion much harder if the goal is more than surface level understanding. This is what I am still grappling with. …

One explanation is that this is effectively a quid pro quo, given Brockman’s enormous financial support of the current president.

So much software just flat out doesn’t work that people don’t even notice how bad X has gotten.

I actually think that plateauing is the best case scenario for big labs. I think there are three broad scenarios to consider: - Super-intelligence is achieved. In this scenario the…

This seems roughly equivalent to liability insurance.

It’s much easier to accept fatalities caused by other humans because there is someone to hold responsible. Will autonomous vehicle companies be held responsible when they cause fat…

I think the more interesting question is who will be on the panel? A group of ex frontier lab employees? You could declare AGI today. A more diverse group across academia and indus…

How is this not a terrible deal for Microsoft? I’m not confident that an “expert panel” will prevent OpenAI from prematurely declaring AGI.

This was really a bad release for OpenAI, if benchmarks are even somewhat indicative of how the model will perform in practice.

Never heard of those either. And I took the highest level math courses offered. The only competition I can remember is participating in is Academic Decathlon.

I’m in the US but this was a while back, in the south. It was a highly ranked school and ended up producing lots of PhDs, but many of the families were blue collar and so there jus…

OpenAI’s systems haven’t been pure language models since the o models though, right? Their RL approach may very well still generalize, but it’s not just a big pre-trained model tha…

I’m not trying to take away from the difficulty of the competition. But I went to a relatively well regarded high school and never even heard of IMO until I met competitors during …

Has anyone independently reviewed these solutions? My proving skills are extremely rusty so I can’t look at these and validate them. They certainly are not traditional proofs thoug…

Access to cheap goods may lead to short term satisfaction, but will never lead to long term fulfillment.

Where are the expectations coming from? The major labs continually claim that these models are now PhD level, whatever that even means.

The fact that so many feel the same way about this technology (I do too!) is an indictment of humanity, not the technology itself. We _could_ use this to empower humans, but many o…

The industry only has themselves to blame. When you promise literal utopia and inevitably don’t deliver, you can’t be surprised by what happens next.

Listening to Satya in recent interviews I think makes it clear that he doesn’t really buy into OpenAI’s religious-like view of AGI. I think the divorce makes a lot of sense in ligh…

Sad that 18F is gone and that USDS is effectively gone. I’d long had in the back of my mind that I’d take take a short sabbatical at some point and work for one of these organizati…