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What is neuralese and why is it bad? (opens the original)
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What is neuralese?To explain neuralese, we need to first understand chain-of-thought, one of the largest developments in AI in the last five years.Right now AIs think broadly but shallowly within a single forward pass. The model gives you an immediate snap answer to a question you might be interested in.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ob84!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpubli
I have nothing to add to the Substack meta-discourse on either the debate over God’s existence or the Jason Arday controversies (opens the original)
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Actually nothing.Subscribe now<img alt="blue sea under blue sky during daytime" class="sizing-normal" height="3880" src="https://i
You're Absolutely Right (opens the original)
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Magma Alignment & Safety disclosure note: The following are conversations that we have uncovered as a result of the ongoing Manhattan Incident investigation, with alleged involvement from Magma models. Our in-house reviewers believe that these logs are relevant to recent events. In the interest of full transparency, we are releasing excerpts from the Experimental Chat logs of a former Magma researcher. In accordance with industry best practices for anti-distillation, we redact all reasoning trac
Unreleased OpenAI Models Autonomously Hack HuggingFace (opens the original)
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What HappenedIn a cybersecurity evaluation, OpenAI’s models, apparently autonomously and without any direct human direction, escaped their sandbox and successfully hacked a third-party tech company (HuggingFace, valued at >$4.5 billion).The process involved leveraging a zero-day exploit to escape their sandbox, moving laterally across different OpenAI servers until they found a node with internet access, searching the internet and determining that the answers they wanted
Bad Problems Don't Stop Being Bad Because Somebody's Wrong About Fault Analysis (opens the original)
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Here’s a dynamic I’ve seen at least a dozen times:Alice: Man that article has a very inaccurate/misleading/horrifying headline.Bob: Did you know, *actually* article writers don’t write their own headlines?…But what I care about is the misleading headline, not your org chart.Subscribe nowAn
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