Danny

Operator, founder, dad.
Tech that serves people, not platforms.

[Danny @dazuck]

Thanks to @SakanaAILabs @typesafeai @ttunguz @gradypb @jaredpalmer @vivekramaswami @DennisonBertram for supplying the ideas, language, research and products feeding my thinking

[Danny @dazuck]

Consumer AI converges on generalist agents, Enterprise AI models exit that stage to speciation, and I revisit my thoughts on where control collapses to. https://t.co/Jb9T7VhgxW

[Danny @dazuck]

@austin_rief Would love to join one, been wanting to get a ritual here going

[Danny @dazuck]

@mignano @Supertake 👏👏

how are you getting effective AI analysis on takes, and measuring that quality?

Been experimenting with a similar skill - 'turn my world thesis into an investment case' - and weakest part has been getting 'expert analysis' that doesn't converge to consensus

[Kevin Roose @kevinroose]

I’m sorry, it’s a fun product, but if you hand all your data to Muse and don’t expect it to be used for the most invasive things imaginable you are Charlie Brown with the football and you deserve whatever happens to you.

[Danny @dazuck]

How soon can we sign the petition to ban this in schools?

@LetGrowOrg @JonHaidt

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Meta announces Muse Charm, a handheld gadget allowing people to utilize an AI personal agent without their phone, computer or glasses.

Available in time for the holidays.

[Proton Pass @Proton_Pass]

Tamagotyourdata.

[Danny @dazuck]

@BrennerSpear @moxie And I hope moxie and others have influence, but Zuckerberg and the Facebook culture have a pretty clear record of being okay with ethical and legal lapses https://t.co/GyjvWhW1gJ

[Danny @dazuck]

Is there literally anyone who reads this and doesn't roll their eyes at the irony and dishonesty?

It actually surprises me he can write this. That there's any constituency left still willing to believe a word.

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://t.co/eoLGVY8yad

Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens.

The reality is:

- People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned.

There is a lot of debate about slowing progress on capabilities until alignment catches up. My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind.

- Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well.

Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. I'm proud of the security foundations we've built.

- Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice. MSL already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work. Other labs can just do this too. In general, it would be helpful for there to be a larger and more diverse ecosystem of evaluators.

- Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well.

I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do.

[Danny @dazuck]

@BrennerSpear @moxie Yeah, there's a lot of ways to be evil. Makes sense to make tradeoffs for brand right now while they are the challenger. They have a very established history of turning the tables once they have the position and power to do so.

[Danny @dazuck]

@BrennerSpear I'm personally torn on my view on reg.

Amongst AI co leaders, there's 100% alignment in perspectives:business interests ("show me the incentives and ill show you the outcome"). So I discount it all.

It just astounds me we give Zuckerberg a seat at this table given his record

[Danny @dazuck]

@BrennerSpear They have a 2 decade record of knowingly acting against user interests & health, to profit.

They know user interest and behavior don't match, so they can get away with it.

Regulation may not be the path, but that Zuck saying "you should trust us" is complete BS

[Danny @dazuck]

@julianlehr I think we'll see a book of things that look less like smart speakers and more like nest appliances for very specific things. Vertically focused, calm, beautiful, connected. These take a bit longer to build but will be coming in droves.

[Danny @dazuck]

@ramannoodlez @TownAI Would love a code

[Danny @dazuck]

@DennisonBertram how'd you land the advertiser, directly or via a network or let your agent do it?

[Danny @dazuck]

👏👏 to whoever papered NYC with these

[Danny @dazuck]

https://t.co/IRmgtgRAcc

[Danny @dazuck]

I kinda feel for employees protesting mouse-tracking by Meta.

But also...you worked on behalf of Meta, the pinnacle of surveillance capitalism. What did you think, Facebook would be fine screwing over users for two decades but protect employees?

[Nik @NikMilanovic]

Sooner or later, everyone in fintech works for @Plaid.

[Danny @dazuck]

matrix organizations for agents. soon