Guillaume Simiand

Humanités numériques, IA & génération de texte, aventure et aventuriers du XVIIIe siècle et d'ailleurs.

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

I felt that coding had lately become more like sculpting, with software becoming a malleable matter. These days it's more like cooking: setting up a recipe, sourcing the ingredients, steering and adding as it simmers. Just add very good critics at the gate. Vibe ratatouilling

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

@Dorialexander 💯 Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian wrote the specs for the RL env (loci = action space, etc). not kidding

[yuzu @yuzu_4ever]

it is so psychologically difficult to do math research in the ai era. if you're doing it for any reason other than pure curiosity, you're going to have a really bad time. there's no money in it. all prestige is gone. future career options are bleak. it feels like anything you're currently working on is completely meaningless because it's going to be solved in a couple years by ai anyways. it's a weird feeling. phd to homeless pipeline gonna go crazy

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

Something i am curious about: llm are great at projecting structures and ideas across disciplines, will their new mathematical proficieny irrigate other fields with advanced, more or less insular maths concepts?

[Christian Bok @christianbok]

"Patience, I said to myself.
If you ever want to see your
time machine again, you
must leave the sphinx alone."

— H. G. Wells

[Epigraph to TIME AMONG THE SPHINXES]

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

As long as we don't do benches involving paperclips we should be fine

[Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTex]

This is how real cyberpunk looks. High tech, low life
Snow Crash opens with a hacker doing pizza delivery btw
are you not entertained? What's the matter?
(android catgirls with monomolecular blades not yet included)

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

Really enjoy working with Fable. It has this "modèle d'auteur" quality with style and personnality enhancing each other on top of opinionated choices. Hopefully we'll see more of this, machine-gods should be works of art not middle-management tokens on a tap

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

A Wonder of our times

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

Herculaneum fused scroll read in full.
https://t.co/y8RV6tDzvg

[codila @0xCodila]

Anthropic Quant Andrej Karpathy:

"Most people use tools that they don't understand

- the ones who strip everything down to basics - end up faster than everyone else "

"the best code is the code anyone can read "

he couldn't fix a bug in 2 hours, so instead of googling - he rewrote the entire system from scratch

no frameworks. no dependencies. it ended up faster

that's the difference between using AI and understanding it

25-min masterclass - bookmark and watch

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

Rushed legal argument, hard-to-believe technical grounds (NSA & co didn't discover last week that the plasticity of llms make their dual use hard to control): probably a power play, and the geopolitical side just an afterthought - which is the actually scary part

[Charlie Bullock @CharlieBull0ck]

So, I've now read the "is informed" letter that Lutnick sent to Anthropic requiring them to shut down Fable access (PDF isn't public yet, but I imagine it will be soon. It's mostly a bunch of legalese; references to export control laws and regulations).

Initial take: BIS's legal theory strikes me as strange, very aggressive, and probably vulnerable to legal/constitutional challenge. That said, I don't think that Anthropic will actually sue to challenge anything; instead, I think they'll work to resolve their differences with the government without resorting to litigation, and that the government will eventually allow them to publish a version of Fable again.

There are a number of issues, and maybe I'll do a longer follow-up post later going over more of them, but the first one that stands out to me is the fact that, under 15 CFR 734.7 and 734.3(b), "published" information or software is not subject to the EAR (the export control regs that Commerce is applying per the letter). It seems to me that Fable (the model) was clearly "published" under 734.7. If Commerce had tried to restrict dissemination of, like, Fable's weights, that would arguably be okay vis-a-vis the published info carve-out (although it might run into other legal issues), but the letter specifically identifies the "Claude Fable 5 Model" and "Claude Mythos 5 Model" as the targets of these export controls.

The reason for the published info carve-out is that there are gnarly First Amendment problems with trying to export control publicly available software, which Commerce has historically wanted to steer clear of. This is the opposite of steering clear, so it runs into those First Amendment concerns as well. Controlling *weights* (which are not readable by a human despite being "code" in some sense) arguably dodges the Bernstein code-as-speech concerns, but I think controlling *the model itself* is on much shakier legal ground.

The takeaway here, as I've said before and will say again, is that this ad hoc last-minute licensing regime is bad for companies AND for the Trump administration AND for the public, and that we desperately need to replace it with legislation. It is not good for the administration's stated goals that their actions are vulnerable to legal challenge! They should want to fix that problem as much as Anthropic does!

[Charlie Bullock @CharlieBull0ck]

So, I've now read the "is informed" letter that Lutnick sent to Anthropic requiring them to shut down Fable access (PDF isn't public yet, but I imagine it will be soon. It's mostly a bunch of legalese; references to export control laws and regulations).

Initial take: BIS's legal theory strikes me as strange, very aggressive, and probably vulnerable to legal/constitutional challenge. That said, I don't think that Anthropic will actually sue to challenge anything; instead, I think they'll work to resolve their differences with the government without resorting to litigation, and that the government will eventually allow them to publish a version of Fable again.

There are a number of issues, and maybe I'll do a longer follow-up post later going over more of them, but the first one that stands out to me is the fact that, under 15 CFR 734.7 and 734.3(b), "published" information or software is not subject to the EAR (the export control regs that Commerce is applying per the letter). It seems to me that Fable (the model) was clearly "published" under 734.7. If Commerce had tried to restrict dissemination of, like, Fable's weights, that would arguably be okay vis-a-vis the published info carve-out (although it might run into other legal issues), but the letter specifically identifies the "Claude Fable 5 Model" and "Claude Mythos 5 Model" as the targets of these export controls.

The reason for the published info carve-out is that there are gnarly First Amendment problems with trying to export control publicly available software, which Commerce has historically wanted to steer clear of. This is the opposite of steering clear, so it runs into those First Amendment concerns as well. Controlling *weights* (which are not readable by a human despite being "code" in some sense) arguably dodges the Bernstein code-as-speech concerns, but I think controlling *the model itself* is on much shakier legal ground.

The takeaway here, as I've said before and will say again, is that this ad hoc last-minute licensing regime is bad for companies AND for the Trump administration AND for the public, and that we desperately need to replace it with legislation. It is not good for the administration's stated goals that their actions are vulnerable to legal challenge! They should want to fix that problem as much as Anthropic does!

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

They should have called it Mirage

[Alexander Doria @Dorialexander]

Doing the most responsible thing an European AI labs can do after this weekend: shipping a blogpost. Why the EU can't into AI, how it's not about compute, but actual skill issue and failing for years to build an actual training ecosystem. https://t.co/Y8M7SJpGyT

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

Que les candidats à la presidentielle française se positionnent sur la crise actuelle est une bonne chose, mais vu les propositions pas sûr qu'ils aient compris que le temps du Grenelle de la saucisse et du Ségur du demi-point est derrière nous. 1: Marché européen des capitaux

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

Two years after the Draghi report, the fact that we are not positionned to onshore the half of the leading labs that was reminded they were on a permanent ejector seat is just enraging. Take an axe to the china shop *now* to save what can be

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

This should be a wake up call on par with Greenland, for us Euros but in another way for the Americans as well. Who will use these tools in these conditions?

[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

[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

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

Mr 4.8 we will get along just fine

[Guillaume Simiand @gsimiand]

We should make latin & greek the two only official languages of the EU. It would be such fun #MontyPythons

[Budapest Calling (proud member of Sárkányellátó) @GasparusMagnus]

Meanwhile in Hungary