Duncan Reynolds

Former knowledge engineer / ontologist / voice UX - Unlikely AI, Amazon Alexa and Evi.

[Daniel Kokotajlo @DKokotajlo]

lol

...they are becoming more situationally aware...

(from Gemini 4 Argon report)

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

Ambitious spinning this as a win for AI security

[OpenAI Newsroom @OpenAINewsroom]

We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.

At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.

We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

"underground creepy crawly state" (ant colony)
"fluffy rationale" (fuzzy logic)

https://t.co/UJQH1F5by8

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

University vice chancellor’s work crawling with ‘tortured phrases.’
https://t.co/5A8gi7Ocjj

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

Some delightful mess here, showing how wrong you can go by heedlessly swapping in synonyms.

"flag to clamour" (signal to noise)
"armada the board" (fleet management)

https://t.co/gt4I0zZE2V

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

Clicking through you get to this 2021 paper https://t.co/GRsLIb0LIE

"irregular timberland" (random forest)
"counterfeit consciousness" (artificial intelligence)
"haze figuring" (cloud computing)
"individual computerized collaborator" (personal digital assistant)

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

There's excitement mixed in there too, about some discoveries and being able to sift new ideas out of the landslide but more worry.

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

My impression from reading a lot of the reactions to OpenAI's maths drop is that mathematicians on balance see it as roughly equivalent to cannon fire: overwhelmingly powerful, impressive, indiscriminate and destructive.

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

Well worth reading: https://t.co/dPmEAogvMX

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

I love this kind of weird bug

https://t.co/prpCg8XvSk

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

"Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said his force had taken "immediate and unprecedented action to investigate these allegations"."

'Unprecedented' rather suggests a problem, doesn't it.

https://t.co/TXgDS8jyEZ

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

Given the Conservatives are presently insane and Reform nakedly detestable that leaves who? Last I looked there was some nonsense in the Green Party's manifesto but at least it wasn't dystopian nonsense.

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

"Digital ID to be compulsory for all UK adults under government plans"

Labour back at it again with their terrifying early 2000s anti-civil liberties agenda. The party of indefinite detention and the mass surveillance mandated by RIPA is having another go at 'papers please'.

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

https://t.co/78ppmVDGhQ

No party that endorses this would be worthy of democratic support. Ed Davey's absurd claim that such a thing "could increase people's freedom and rights" should see him removed as Lib Dem leader.

https://t.co/yRdvHyqQNh

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

Come to find out, the cosmos spoke and the next film is a genre-bender about a beekeeper (Matthew McConaughey) and his foster daughter (Angelina LookingGlass) dealing with some vicious rivals.

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

Listening to an old @TheBigPic (2020-07-02). @SeanFennessey and @brofromanother recommended The Vast of Night, so I watched that. They hoped Andrew Patterson would make another low- or mid-budget film next, not "Bumblebee 2: Rise of the Bees or whatever"...

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

A fourth image kept being rejected by automatic content moderation but when it did draw something the engine couldn't handle the idea of two people swinging from one rope. It either drew two ropes or had one figure hovering untethered.

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

Image generation has come a long way. I had a go at reproducing three images that have stuck with me for years from nightmares I have had. Considering how little I can convey of them in a paragraph of text, these are impressive, though none of them is right.

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

It was particularly hard to convince the engine to go for unrealistic scale. The figure among the wet blocks should be absolutely dwarfed by them. He lives (ish) in a crack on one of these vast blocks.

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

The status quo, where people in these circumstances have to choose between suffering past the bearable point or leaving before they're ready, while they retain the strength to end things independently - with all the risk an attempt entails - is a bad one. We should expect better.

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

It's a real shame to watch what should be a basic freedom get attacked as it is being. The kind of alarmism resorted to by @ShabanaMahmood here is unfair and unhelpful.

https://t.co/w0lUsIYSkq

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

The Bill only allows that choice with the say-so of two independent doctors and a High Court judge, for mentally capable people expected to die within six months, consistently expressing a clear, settled wish, free from pressure, over several weeks.

https://t.co/JZZVCan4WE

[Duncan Reynolds @duncanr2]

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is important. The right to choose - in the face of an awful, imminent and otherwise unavoidable death - when to go, with dignity and agency is one we all deserve.