Kevin Rank

College of Business and Economics AI Fellow. Lecturer - Generative AI, Business Intelligence and Excel at Boise State University. Tech nerd in general

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:

— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.

— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)

— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.

— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”

— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.

— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.

— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

[Kevin Rank @KevinTweets1]

@99thVR @cfryant I thought the same thing! :-)

[Christopher Fryant @cfryant]

Did we get the Mythos release today?

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Kevin Rank @KevinTweets1]

@mreflow I think both are true. It's amazing, awesome, and runs out as it starts getting good.

[Kevin Rank @KevinTweets1]

@NotebookLM @tonysimons_ Unfortunately, that won't help much for the AI class I am teaching tomorrow. :-(

[Chris & Nolan @chrisnolansf]

@NotebookLM Gemini helped un-blurred 😂

[Kevin Rank @KevinTweets1]

@NotebookLM :12 second mark...

[Kevin Rank @KevinTweets1]

Hmmm... the moment before it blurs....
Documents: PDF reports (which can include charts and Tables) Microsoft Word(docx), Markdown, and Standard Text files.

[NotebookLM @NotebookLM]

Ok, it’s probably about time we changed the game.

Stay tuned 👀

[NotebookLM @NotebookLM]

Ok, it’s probably about time we changed the game.

Stay tuned 👀

[Kevin Rank @KevinTweets1]

@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXPowersPlay

[NotebookLM @NotebookLM]

Today we’re launching another highly requested feature: Source Attribution! 🥳

No more guessing. Now you can see the exact formula (prompts + sources) used to make each of your artifacts. Want to make an adjustment? Just tap "Iterate" and customize to your heart’s content 💖

[Kevin Rank @KevinTweets1]

CHAT-GPT for chatting with the AI.
Codex for DOING with the AI.

I don't have a problem with them being seperated, as long as there is a way to turn a chat into a project or pull a project into chat.

That is how I use ChatGPT and Codex right now.

[Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc @apples_jimmy]

I’m curious what oai are going to do with the superapp, what do they name it ?

Is it better to just combine it as ChatGPT and have a singular view, do they split it so there’s ChatGPT and Codex or do they rename Codex to something for non technical users like Cowork etc ?

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Kevin Rank @KevinTweets1]

I am working on a fairly comprehensive Canvas application for educators. As part of it, I wanted to compare Panopto transcript quality vs other Speech to Text models.

I ended up spinning it out into an application of its own, so you can run models against your own text and see performance.

Read about it in my latest blog post: https://t.co/AEUbxdu3Px It also has a link to the github repo for the utility.

If you just want the tl;dr:
I had 614 minutes of audio over 12 lectures I fed it.
Whisper Small: WER: 10.7% - 14.1 minutes to run.
Whisper Medium: WER: 11.8% - 21.1 minutes to run.
Whisper Large V3: WER: 14.2% - 41.9 minutes to run.
Whisper Large V3 Turbo: WER: 8.9% - 9.5 minutes to run.

WER% = Word Error Rate vs your reference transcript. The reference transcript was the Panopto Automatic Speech Recognition.

[Kevin Rank @KevinTweets1]

I am a gamer. Local AI and gaming are a good combo. I have had 3 gaming laptops over the last 15 years. Last year for my refresh, I got a desktop. I wanted the power.

I view PCs as creation machines and phones as consuming machines/interfaces. That fits perfectly to what you are saying. Prep everything on Desktop/laptop. Remote control via web/cell phone.

[Christopher Fryant @cfryant]

How the AI cycle has progressed:

-It's cool, but useless
-Looks like $%&
-It can't even do fingers
-Why is it yellow?!
-It can't do this one specific thing and therefore is useless in production
-[threaten to end you and your entire family]

[B.J. Rains @BJRains]

Boise State announces that Ashton Jeanty will be back inside Albertsons Stadium for the Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live event on June 6.

How about this? Jeanty will drive the Smashton Jeanty Boise State-themed monster truck onto the field and be part of the show all evening.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Pretty much 😂
https://t.co/3BqNQfbQ5w

[Christopher Fryant @cfryant]

If you're interested this series, let @invideoOfficial know in the replies.

Let's make it a reality!