three blind men debating religion
first one says clearly monotheism
second one says fae magic
third one keeps insisting no god
stop molesting that poor elephant mutters the zookeeper
it would be unseemly for the united states to be too good at soccer
like when an older brother gets too good at the younger brothers thing
I like that we hold ourselves back here
We passed the Turing test c. 2024. We couldn't pass it today.
Why? Humans, unlike LLMs, learn so efficiently it takes a very small sample to retrain our own classifier. We can all spot AI easily now.
Frankly, we aren't talking about this enough. Both that our learning mechanism for AIs is still very crude, and the fact that AI content has been universally uncloaked
The "should you read code" debate is dumb because the real decision isn't binary, it's a scale:
1. Reading every line of every diff
2. Scanning every diff, reviewing important lines
3. Ignoring diffs but understanding the 'why' of every PR
4. Spot checking PR's instead of reading every one
5. Ignoring PR's, but doing regular spot checks on the codebase
6. Ignoring the code, but spot checking agent traces to help improve the system
7. Ignoring both the code and the system, let models handle everything
Where are you on the scale?
Let me know if this is just me:
Noticed someone I know who is very "AI-pilled" and uses agents 24/7 to... start to talk noticeably more like these LLMs write.
Eg more heavily using adjectives like "geniune", frequently terms like "the shape of" and many more examples
Engram cofounder @jxmnop just raised $98M to build a new type of AI.
He says models don't need to get smarter over time. Instead, they just need to know you better and better over time.
Jack describes what he's building:
"Our product is a new type of AI. We have a pretty different vision from a lot of the frontier labs, which are working on one model per lab, and trying to make that model smarter every month."
"There's another way to think about it, which is that the model doesn't need to get smarter every month. It needs to know you better."
"So we're working on a whole different stack, which is a way to train models that train themselves to know your world better and adjust to the things that you say."
"So: new ways of training, new ways of running the models."