Diego Dorn

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[Diego Dorn @CozyFractal]

C'est le début de mon #calendrierdelavent des #fractals !

Pour fêter cela, voici un zoom de l'ensemble de #Mandelbrot coloré avec une fonction d'inégalité triangulaire moyenne.

N'hésitez pas à RT mon #DecembreFractal, ça me fera aussi chaud au coeur qu'un chocolat chaud ❤️

[Alexandre Variengien @A_Variengien]

Introducing Breaking Books, a tool to bring books to the social sphere. It is a game changer to read non-fiction books AND hang out with friends.

We used AI to turn an epub into a beautiful deck of cards. The goal is to piece back the book together into a coherent mind map.

[Charbel-Raphael @CRSegerie]

The time for AI self-regulation is over.

200 Nobel laureates, former heads of state, and industry experts just signed a statement:

"We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks"

The call was presented at the UN General Assembly today by Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate:

[Diego Dorn @CozyFractal]

@AtlantisPleb @googleaistudio Yeah, they were so interesting before ! 😭

[Transluce @TransluceAI]

Announcing Transluce, a nonprofit research lab building open source, scalable technology for understanding AI systems and steering them in the public interest.

Read a letter from the co-founders Jacob Steinhardt and Sarah Schwettmann:
https://t.co/IUIhBjpYhS

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

When you leave OpenAI, you get an unpleasant surprise: a departure deal where if you don't sign a lifelong nondisparagement commitment, you lose all of your vested equity: https://t.co/D8RGTJPGFX

[David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪ @DavidSKrueger]

I’m super excited to release our 100+ page collaborative agenda - led by @usmananwar391 - on “Foundational Challenges In Assuring Alignment and Safety of LLMs” alongside 35+ co-authors from NLP, ML, and AI Safety communities!

Some highlights below...

[Lê Nguyên Hoang bsky.app/profile/science4all.org @le_science4all]

Le "champion européen", porté par le Président Français et utilisé pour affaiblir la régulation des IA...

[Diego Dorn @CozyFractal]

@Simeon_Cps @TheDavidSJ You could use FLOP-equivalent, as we do with CO2

[Diego Dorn @CozyFractal]

I would recommend applying, both for the topics of great importance and for the nice people that I met during my summer internship there.

[David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪ @DavidSKrueger]

I am looking for PhD students!!

I'm increasingly interested in work supporting AI governance, e.g. that:
- highlights the need for policy, e.g. by breaking methods or models
- could help monitor and enforce policies
- generally increases affordances for policymakers

[Diego Dorn @CozyFractal]

@soroushjp Congrats!
I'm surprised Claude 2 is always above the others, I thought it was harder to attack. Any thoughts? 🤔

[Diego Dorn @CozyFractal]

@AISafetyMemes @martin_casado Most technologies are not like the others

[Jan Brauner @JanMBrauner]

Addressing the long-term risks of AI doesn't mean we can ignore its present harms — and vice versa. In our @TIME op-ed, @achan96 and I argue that we need to break away from the false "present vs. future" harms dichotomy.

https://t.co/y80CXDnMMI

[Diego Dorn @CozyFractal]

@ArthurConmy You can throw errors in jax/totchtyping (I recommend jaxtyping btw) but it doesn't solve the verbose part

[Science Policy Action Network (SPAN) @span_swiss]

The grand finale: congratulations to the winning teams 🏆 for presenting a 3-minute pitch as #honestbrokers during the #Science4policy workshop by @LetiMonte1 and @VeroCasartelli.

[Diego Dorn @CozyFractal]

Note that I was not in this classroom, and I don't know who had this slide in their lecture.

Though I'd love to talk with them to understand why we see the world so differently

[Diego Dorn @CozyFractal]

Feels strange to be studying at @EPFL...

If "non-linear regression" is all it takes to build highly capable systems, we should definitely take the matter seriously.

What will "non-linear regression" do in a few years? New sources of power are emerging, we need to adapt.

[James Campbell @jam3scampbell]

Clown world in academia rn

[David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪ @DavidSKrueger]

I've worried AI could lead to human extinction ever since I heard about Deep Learning from Hinton's Coursera course, >10 years ago.

So it's great to see so many AI researchers advocating for AI x-safety as a global priority.

Let's stop arguing over it and figure out what to do!

[Diego Dorn @CozyFractal]

@mmitchell_ai What would it mean for an image to be objective? Does this prevent all image generators?
It's not clear either what it means for a text to be objective, as most objective texts contain subjective parts... so it wouldn't prevent models to learn about subjective opinions

[Benjamin Todd @ben_j_todd]

Why the best outcome is never as good as it seems.

And the worst is never as bad as it seems.

A thread on a surprisingly little known but really important concept: regression to the mean.

/1

[Diego Dorn @CozyFractal]

@ben_j_todd @tobyord (Or maybe random with a distribution according to the spread of different charities, in order to better capture the counterfactual of where I would donate without EA)

[Diego Dorn @CozyFractal]

@ben_j_todd @tobyord Thanks for this! I always found this "some charities are 100× better" super arbitrary, given that some charities are harmful and some probably have a negligible impact.
But I never went all the way to realise that what we wanted was "how much better compared to random"