Deep­Mind’s gen­er­al­ist AI, Gato: A non-tech­ni­cal explainer

May 16, 2022, 9:21 PM
63 points
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[link] The Lion and the Worm

TsviBTMay 16, 2022, 8:40 PM
11 points
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[Link] New Stan­ford En­cy­clo­pe­dia of Philos­o­phy ar­ti­cle, “Nor­ma­tive The­o­ries of Ra­tional Choice: Ri­vals to Ex­pected Utility”

Aryeh EnglanderMay 16, 2022, 7:33 PM
10 points
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Proxy mis­speci­fi­ca­tion and the ca­pa­bil­ities vs. value learn­ing race

Sam MarksMay 16, 2022, 6:58 PM
23 points
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Op­ti­miza­tion at a Distance

johnswentworthMay 16, 2022, 5:58 PM
88 points
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[Question] To what ex­tent is your AGI timeline bi­modal or oth­er­wise “bumpy”?

jchanMay 16, 2022, 5:42 PM
13 points
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China Covid #3

ZviMay 16, 2022, 5:40 PM
54 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

BIDA Air Qual­ity Measurements

jefftkMay 16, 2022, 2:00 PM
19 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Cuban mis­sile crisis: the strate­gic context

NathanBarnardMay 16, 2022, 12:12 PM
18 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Why I’m Op­ti­mistic About Near-Term AI Risk

harsimonyMay 15, 2022, 11:05 PM
57 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Defi­ni­tion Prac­tice: Ap­plied Rationality

ChristianKlMay 15, 2022, 8:44 PM
13 points
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Sur­viv­ing Au­toma­tion In The 21st Cen­tury—Part 1

George3d6May 15, 2022, 7:16 PM
28 points
16 comments8 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

[Question] Should we buy Google stock?

Random TraderMay 15, 2022, 6:38 PM
0 points
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The AI Count­down Clock

River LewisMay 15, 2022, 6:37 PM
43 points
30 comments2 min readLW link
(heytraveler.substack.com)

Is AI Progress Im­pos­si­ble To Pre­dict?

alyssavanceMay 15, 2022, 6:30 PM
277 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is it pos­si­ble to im­ple­ment switch­ing be­tween se­quences from its pages?

EniScienMay 15, 2022, 9:19 AM
5 points
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Gato as the Dawn of Early AGI

David UdellMay 15, 2022, 6:52 AM
85 points
29 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] What’s up with the font size in the Mark­down text ed­i­tor?

Ege ErdilMay 14, 2022, 9:12 PM
7 points
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[Link post] Promis­ing Paths to Align­ment—Con­nor Leahy | Talk

frances_lorenzMay 14, 2022, 4:01 PM
34 points
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Inequal­ity is in­sep­a­rable from mar­kets

NathanBarnardMay 14, 2022, 1:39 PM
22 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Pre­dict­ing the Elec­tions with Deep Learn­ing—Part 1 - Results

Quentin ChenevierMay 14, 2022, 12:54 PM
0 points
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Clar­ify­ing the con­fu­sion around in­ner alignment

Rauno ArikeMay 13, 2022, 11:05 PM
31 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

Costs and benefits of am­nio­cen­te­sis for nor­mal pregnancies

bracesMay 13, 2022, 10:47 PM
13 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Frame for Take-Off Speeds to in­form com­pute gov­er­nance & scal­ing alignment

Logan RiggsMay 13, 2022, 10:23 PM
15 points
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Align­ment as Constraints

Logan RiggsMay 13, 2022, 10:07 PM
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

How close to nu­clear war did we get over Cuba?

NathanBarnardMay 13, 2022, 7:58 PM
13 points
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Against Time in Agent Models

johnswentworthMay 13, 2022, 7:55 PM
62 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Agency As a Nat­u­ral Abstraction

Thane RuthenisMay 13, 2022, 6:02 PM
55 points
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Fermi es­ti­ma­tion of the im­pact you might have work­ing on AI safety

Fabien RogerMay 13, 2022, 5:49 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“Tech com­pany sin­gu­lar­i­ties”, and steer­ing them to re­duce x-risk

Andrew_CritchMay 13, 2022, 5:24 PM
75 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

An ob­ser­va­tion about Hub­inger et al.’s frame­work for learned optimization

carboniferous_umbraculum May 13, 2022, 4:20 PM
34 points
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[Question] The Eco­nomics of a New En­ergy Source

casualphysicsenjoyerMay 13, 2022, 2:08 PM
2 points
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[Question] Still pos­si­ble to change user­name?

gabrielreccMay 13, 2022, 1:41 PM
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Rough notes, BAIS] Hu­man val­ues and cycli­cal preferences

May 13, 2022, 1:28 PM
5 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Can mod­er­a­tors fix old se­quences posts?

EniScienMay 13, 2022, 12:30 PM
10 points
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Deep­Mind is hiring for the Scal­able Align­ment and Align­ment Teams

May 13, 2022, 12:17 PM
150 points
34 comments9 min readLW link

Thoughts on AI Safety Camp

Charlie SteinerMay 13, 2022, 7:16 AM
33 points
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Deferring

owencbMay 12, 2022, 11:56 PM
18 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

RLHF

Ansh RadhakrishnanMay 12, 2022, 9:18 PM
18 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What to do when start­ing a busi­ness in an im­mi­nent-AGI world?

ryan_bMay 12, 2022, 9:07 PM
25 points
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In­ter­pretabil­ity’s Align­ment-Solv­ing Po­ten­tial: Anal­y­sis of 7 Scenarios

Evan R. MurphyMay 12, 2022, 8:01 PM
58 points
0 comments59 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tion to the se­quence: In­ter­pretabil­ity Re­search for the Most Im­por­tant Century

Evan R. MurphyMay 12, 2022, 7:59 PM
16 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

A ten­ta­tive di­alogue with a Friendly-boxed-su­per-AGI on brain uploads

Ramiro P.May 12, 2022, 7:40 PM
1 point
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The Last Paperclip

Logan ZoellnerMay 12, 2022, 7:25 PM
63 points
15 comments18 min readLW link

Deep­mind’s Gato: Gen­er­al­ist Agent

Daniel KokotajloMay 12, 2022, 4:01 PM
165 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

“A Gen­er­al­ist Agent”: New Deep­Mind Publication

1a3ornMay 12, 2022, 3:30 PM
79 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 5/​12/​22: Other Priorities

ZviMay 12, 2022, 1:30 PM
31 points
4 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How would pub­lic me­dia out­lets need to be gov­erned to cover all poli­ti­cal views?

ChristianKlMay 12, 2022, 12:55 PM
13 points
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[Question] What’s keep­ing con­cerned ca­pa­bil­ities gain re­searchers from leav­ing the field?

sovranMay 12, 2022, 12:16 PM
19 points
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Pos­i­tive out­comes un­der an un­al­igned AGI takeover

YitzMay 12, 2022, 7:45 AM
19 points
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