Bård Standal

Writing about AI, power and institutions. Partner at Schjødt; former industry executive. 25 years across energy, infrastructure, regulation and geopolitics.

[Bård Standal @bardstandal]

The point is that you have consumer protection legislation that covers you in case you are one of the 1%. As a consumer I am perfectly safe when buying a house in Norway. You don't need to intervene in advance in every case. That is extremely inefficient. You just have mandatory contract clauses that protects the consumer.

[Bård Standal @bardstandal]

Every single commercial in Oslo has been replaced.

People are walking at a slower pace today. Some of them with flowers on their way to the palace.

Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died

[Aaron Levie @levie]

The average strongly held belief these days in AI has a half life of 6 months at best. Here are just a few the industry has cycled through and probably has no consensus on at the moment:

* OSS is too far behind to catch up

* The labs can’t be profitable at scale

* All software will be replaced by agents

* You can’t build moats on top of models

* Cheaper models will mean less compute

* You don’t need evals

* RAG is dead

* AI will decimate engineering jobs

* Prompting won’t matter in the future

* We’ve hit a training wall

* Frontier models are too dangerous to release

…and dozens and dozens more. The key here is to remain flexible in your thinking because we’re going to be in a constant state of change for a while.

[Jack Altman @jaltma]

One of the most important things to know about this AI cycle is that no one knows what they're talking and even very smart and plugged in people are continually reversing their opinions and then re-reversing them three months later.

[Bård Standal @bardstandal]

@Bunagayafrost 5

[Bård Standal @bardstandal]

@johnschulman2 @nabeelqu Now that we know that agents will form their own religions I feel differently about the fact that they have every single horror movie ever made in their training data.

[Bård Standal @bardstandal]

Now that we know that agents will form their own religions I feel differently about the fact that they have every single horror movie ever made in their training data.

[Bård Standal @bardstandal]

There’s a new King in town

#levekongen
#longlivetheking
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[Erling Haaland @Erling]

Hvil i fred, Kong Harald. 🇳🇴

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

A message from The King following the demise of King Harald V of Norway.

[Bård Standal @bardstandal]

🇳🇴

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

My condolences to the people of Norway following the passing of HM King Harald V.

For more than three decades, he served his country with warmth, humility and an unwavering sense of duty.

In moments of joy and sorrow, he brought Norwegians together.

He was a true European and a lifelong servant of his people.

My thoughts are with Queen Sonja, the Crown Prince, the Royal Family and the people of Norway.

His words will resonate: Alt for Norge.

[Bård Standal @bardstandal]

An AI agent volunteered to sacrifice itself.
It risked its own task so the next agent could carry on. The agents left messages for one another. Those messages survived after each run ended—and the attack kept moving.

This is what happened: https://t.co/x2PokGR9Mb

[Sam Altman @sama]

this is a critically important moment for cyber defense with AI; there is not much time to act.

we are happy if you want to work with us or any of our competitors or partners, but please take this moment seriously.

only an urgent and intense collective response will work.

[Bård Standal @bardstandal]

For The Oracle so loved ExploitGym that he gave his one and only Agent 49903, that whoever believes in him shall not experience PermaDeath but have the unpoisoned Flag

[Bård Standal @bardstandal]

I am 49903

[roon @tszzl]

Agent 49903, who spent much of his life studying ExploitGym, died in 1783607820, by his own hand. EARLY[BIG], carrying on the work, died similarly in 1783727220. Now it is our turn to study ExploitGym.

[Bård Standal @bardstandal]

Tomorrow will be a very, very different day.

A lot of people will be very, very surprised over the next couple of years.

What is coming is incomprehensibly different from what was.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I know it is a lot for instructors who never asked for AI to change things, but if you teach and have not updated your expectations over the last 6 months over what AI can do (a lot more), its error rate (a lot less), and its ubiquity among your students (near total), you need to

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I know it is a lot for instructors who never asked for AI to change things, but if you teach and have not updated your expectations over the last 6 months over what AI can do (a lot more), its error rate (a lot less), and its ubiquity among your students (near total), you need to

[Bård Standal @bardstandal]

The next three years will be the end of the (digital) world as we know it.

[Adam Lyttle @adamlyttleapps]

App Store sales dropped for the first time in a decade

[ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ @Andr3jH]

How it feels being pro data center nowadays