CERC-AAI

AI Lab led by @irinarish - Canada Excellence Research Chair in Autonomous AI. Advancing capabilities and alignment of large-scale models on supercomputers.

[Irina Rish @irinarish]

@OLCFGOV Stay tuned - more models will be released soon, such as Lag-Llama time-series foundation model - early work posted here: https://t.co/OHsH5nuU9N
Paper: https://t.co/jVgjlDZGwO

[Irina Rish @irinarish]

@OLCFGOV 3. The first Hindi-English LLM released Oct 31st by our @NolanoOrg team: https://t.co/GBq81UqwBv
Blog: https://t.co/Vm9UETinhM

[Irina Rish @irinarish]

@OLCFGOV 4. Red-Pajama-INCITE (RPI) LLMs (3B and 7B) trained jointly with @cerc_aai and @togethercompute teams on Summit May 2023: https://t.co/Vkoj4q9xwC
Blog: https://t.co/dGs3D1YiKP

[Irina Rish @irinarish]

@OLCFGOV 1. Continual LLMs: https://t.co/09pDOhx3rr
Paper: https://t.co/Q2rXDLIkxC
Blog/models: https://t.co/nXiQnLlsvl

[Irina Rish @irinarish]

SInce the last year, thanks to @OLCFGOV INCITE compute award (Summit), and DD allocation (Frontier), we've built continual, multilingual (Hindi), vision-text, time-series etc models - see https://t.co/1asOM4eFdr and 🧵
Let's build Frontier AI on Frontier supercomputer! 🎉

[Irina Rish @irinarish]

More (belated) Xmas (or New Year :) presents for y'all! 🎁🥂🎉

Our @cerc_aai team @UMontreal (https://t.co/4BYwkpzDnX), jointly with our virtual @AGICollective community, is excited to announce the first release of CL-FoMo (Continually-Learning Foundation Models) suite of open-source LLMs (more coming soon!) Blog/models/code/paper: https://t.co/es9ag7f9gu

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation with Guillaume Verdon (@GillVerd) aka Beff Jezos (@beffjezos), a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement that advocates for rapid technological progress, physics-based reasoning, and memes.

Guillaume & Beff are two fascinating identities co-existing inside one human mind, recently merged.

And yes, I did talk to Jeff Bezos and Beff Jezos back-to-back on the podcast, because the most entertaining outcome is the most likely. Happy holidays! ❤

It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:23 - Beff Jezos
12:21 - Thermodynamics
18:36 - Doxxing
28:30 - Anonymous bots
35:58 - Power
38:29 - AI dangers
42:01 - Building AGI
50:14 - Merging with AI
57:56 - p(doom)
1:13:23 - Quantum machine learning
1:26:41 - Quantum computer
1:35:15 - Aliens
1:40:04 - Quantum gravity
1:45:25 - Kardashev scale
1:47:17 - Effective accelerationism (e/acc)
1:57:47 - Humor and memes
2:00:53 - Jeff Bezos
2:07:25 - Elon Musk
2:13:55 - Extropic
2:22:31 - Singularity and AGI
2:26:29 - AI doomers
2:27:54 - Effective altruism
2:34:23 - Day in the life
2:40:50 - Identity
2:43:40 - Advice for young people
2:45:42 - Mortality
2:49:25 - Meaning of life

[Irina Rish @irinarish]

A little Xmas present 4 you!🎁🎄🎉 Excited for the first release of our open-source Robin vision-language models built by the team at @irinarish’s @cercaai lab @ @UMontreal as part of our INCITE project https://t.co/vJSt6wVEzZ. Blog/models/code: https://t.co/KnaUMFf5RD 🧵

[Alex Volkov @altryne]

@thursdai_pod @upstageai @unum_cloud @NousResearch @ldjconfirmed @cerc_aai Predictions (click to zoom in cause it's a long list, or click into the newsletter itself for copy-pasta)

There are some good ones!

[Alex Volkov @altryne]

https://t.co/wrnUo9UTj0
📅 Last @thursdai_pod episode of this year, covered tons of new open source from @upstageai @unum_cloud @NousResearch @ldjconfirmed , the AI lawsuit, the ml-ferret models from Apple, and the Robin suite of models from @cerc_aai , we also had a round of predictions!

Also the fairly controversial quality of Midjourney v6 output (especially on Starwars) and collected tons of predictions (next tweet) for the 2024 year of AI!

( we also had a full interview w /@irinarish @kshitijkgupta @GeorgeAdams101 about Robin suite which will be posted as it's own episode soon)