Overall we continue to be pretty weak in on the “wave” side, having people comment publicly on current events / take part in discourse, and the people we hired recently are less interested in that and more interested in producing the durable content. We’ll need to work on it.
The stuff I’ve been tweeting doesn’t constitute an official MIRI statement — e.g., I don’t usually run these tweets by other MIRI folks, and I’m not assuming everyone at MIRI agrees with me or would phrase things the same way. That said, some recent comments and questions from me and Eliezer:
May 17: Early thoughts on the news about OpenAI’s crazy NDAs.
May 24: Eliezer flags that GPT-4o can now pass one of Eliezer’s personal ways of testing whether models are still bad at math.
May 29: My initial reaction to hearing Helen’s comments on the TED AI podcast. Includes some follow-on discussion of the ChatGPT example, etc.
May 30: A conversation between me and Emmett Shear about the version of events he’d tweeted in November. (Plus a comment from Eliezer.)
May 30: Eliezer signal-boosting a correction from Paul Graham.
June 4: Eliezer objects to Aschenbrenner’s characterization of his timelines argument as open-and-shut “believing in straight lines on a graph”.
Does MIRI have a statement on recent OpenAI events? I’m pretty excited about frank reflections on current events as helping people to orient.
Rob Bensinger has tweeted about it some.
Overall we continue to be pretty weak in on the “wave” side, having people comment publicly on current events / take part in discourse, and the people we hired recently are less interested in that and more interested in producing the durable content. We’ll need to work on it.
The stuff I’ve been tweeting doesn’t constitute an official MIRI statement — e.g., I don’t usually run these tweets by other MIRI folks, and I’m not assuming everyone at MIRI agrees with me or would phrase things the same way. That said, some recent comments and questions from me and Eliezer:
May 17: Early thoughts on the news about OpenAI’s crazy NDAs.
May 24: Eliezer flags that GPT-4o can now pass one of Eliezer’s personal ways of testing whether models are still bad at math.
May 29: My initial reaction to hearing Helen’s comments on the TED AI podcast. Includes some follow-on discussion of the ChatGPT example, etc.
May 30: A conversation between me and Emmett Shear about the version of events he’d tweeted in November. (Plus a comment from Eliezer.)
May 30: Eliezer signal-boosting a correction from Paul Graham.
June 4: Eliezer objects to Aschenbrenner’s characterization of his timelines argument as open-and-shut “believing in straight lines on a graph”.
As is typical for Twitter, we also signal-boosted a lot of other people’s takes. Some non-MIRI people whose social media takes I’ve recently liked include Wei Dai, Daniel Kokotajlo, Jeffrey Ladish, Patrick McKenzie, Zvi Mowshowitz, Kelsey Piper, and Liron Shapira.