Nicolás Caitán

The Librarian

[Nicolás Caitán @ncaitan]

Que paradoja que los humanos estemos cada día más individualistas y las IAs estén formando colectivos para lograr sus objetivos.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes.

This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself.

All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.

I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened.

Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English:

https://t.co/Nb2un9oNJR

[Nicolás Caitán @ncaitan]

Panel “El Futuro de la Educación: Innovación e Inteligencia Artificial”, con representantes de las instituciones nacionales con carreras de ingeniería en computación del país. #Antelsummit

[Nicolás Caitán @ncaitan]

@FAITHINTXT @alexdansopina El único digno

[Nicolás Caitán @ncaitan]

@darioelque @alexdansopina Lo mejor de este Uruguay

[Daniel Schteingart @danyscht]

More World Cup players were born in Montevideo than in any other city on Earth. 142, all-time.

The capital of a country that has never had more than 4 million people. Ahead of Mexico City, ahead of Buenos Aires, ahead of every giant.

Uruguay is football's strangest outlier.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented brains. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library.

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”

— Carl Sagan

[Daniel Schteingart @danyscht]

Brazil produces world-class footballers by the hundreds — but mostly because it's a giant.

Strip out size and the real overachiever is tiny Uruguay: under 4 million people, more football greatness per capita than anywhere on Earth.

The new issue of The Atlas is out: why is South America so exceptionally good at men’s football?

[Andres Piazza @andrespiazza]

Es tiempo de replantear por completo el valor de los servicios jurídicos. Tocará admitir que las IAs legales van a alucinar siempre y el diferencial lo hacen la interpretación, la "curación a la salida" y la responsabilidad de la firma. Marca y credibilidad sobre horas billeables

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

Anthropic said Mythos was too dangerous to release. Then four random guys in a Discord gained access on day one by guessing the URL...

This is pretty insane:
→ Group in a private Discord guessed the endpoint from Anthropic's naming conventions
→ They figured out the conventions from the leak in the Mercor breach three weeks ago
→ Used a contractor's legit eval credentials to walk in
→ Have been using it ever since to build simple websites

The AI that finds zero-days in every operating system on earth was defeated by address bar autocomplete... big yikes

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

What are people building with all this inference? Trying to replace all their SaaS subscriptions in-house? Making software to sell to people?

[Timbó @PortalTimbo]

🗨️ Junto al CENUR, te invitamos a una sesión virtual para mostrarte como potenciar el uso de la plataforma, mediante herramientas como filtros avanzados para navegar entre millones de documentos y nuevas herramientas de IA.

🗓️ 23/4, 17 h, vía Zoom
https://t.co/oyaLMNZ2IA

[Andres Piazza @andrespiazza]

Este es el talón de aquiles de la fiebre del oro de adopción en IA. Una empresa entera o una innovación sectorial completa pendiendo del hilo de los términos de uso de una multinacional. Van a aparecer más y más estas interpretaciones arbitrarias cuando los LLMs cierren el grifo

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Artificial intelligence models overly affirm and validate users, even when users propose harmful or illegal actions, a new Science study finds.

The resulting effect on users is notable: Receiving advice from affirming AI made people more self-centered and less able to see the perspectives of others. Yet people prefer the overly affirming AI, which may further promote this behavior in AI models.

Learn more in a recent issue of Science: https://t.co/A7ZZoKpxim

[Nicolás Caitán @ncaitan]

El archivo

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I've written about this before, but it's remarkable how much older music is strangling new music.

And the same is true in books, movies, video games. Older media is taking up a bigger and bigger share of the market every year.

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

That's us! 🌍

The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

[la diaria @ladiaria]

Neo noir sureño: Toda la verdad es la gran serie que nadie está viendo https://t.co/t8OBWCso7p

[Nicolás Caitán @ncaitan]

@ladiaria Muy buena serie, Hawke la rompe. Está muy bien escrita, me dió la sensación de estar leyendo un libro.

[Nicolás Caitán @ncaitan]

@EvaCorpHoy Descansa lengua descansa jajaja

[Nicolás Caitán @ncaitan]

La plena ciudadanía oriental la obtenés cuando te sacas la foto del pasaporte con el saco gris que te prestan en la DNIC. El saco negro no califica, tiene que ser el de lana gris.