Sam Watkins

Filmmaker & Video Editor | 🎬 Clients: 80,000 Hours, FAR AI, GSK, The Economist, UCL, Cranfield University | Pixel Pushing for AI Safety

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

I recently had the chance to design & animate the on-screen graphics for 80000 Hours new video on the AI 2027 scenario. If you haven't seen it yet, take a look to see a well researched forecast of where the future of AI may be headed.

[80,000 Hours @80000Hours]

Aric Floyd hosts AI in Context, a new channel produced by 80,000 Hours.

AI 2027 depicts a possible future where AI radically transforms the world in just a few intense years. Let us show you what living through that future might look like.

Watch here:
https://t.co/GUfgNOjMfK

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Defund golf courses.

Golf courses in America use around 30.5× more water than all data centres combined.

Golf courses: ~531bn gallons/year.

Data centres: ~17.4bn gallons/year.

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

Elon added $10 Trillion in 4 hours 😂

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

Really enjoyed working with the team @EpochAIResearch to produce this video for their new benchmark 'MirrorCode'

[Epoch AI @EpochAIResearch]

What are the largest software engineering tasks AI can perform?

To answer this, we built MirrorCode, our long-horizon SWE benchmark that lets AI code autonomously for days at a time.

The best models complete some tasks we estimate would take human engineers several weeks.

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

If this works, it will be a revolution in healthcare...

[Midjourney @midjourney]

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

Advanced AI will make another leap in terms of its magnitude of capability - by combining Street view data with live sensor data will give robots a 'World Map', which allow them to navigate the physical world and complete much more useful tasks that only humans can currently do

[Nona @Nona_xai]

🚨 ULTIMA HORA : Google acaba de convertir Street View en un simulador del mundo real.

Genie 3 ahora puede recrear cualquier entorno físico a partir de las imágenes de Street View.

Google lleva filmando el planeta desde 2007.

Miles de millones de calles, edificios y barrios enteros almacenados en sus servidores.

Durante años, todo el mundo pensó que era solo para orientarse.

Era en realidad la mayor recopilación de datos del mundo real de la historia.

Y acaban de decidir hacer algo con ello.

[Haider. @haider1]

Dario Amodei says Mythos showed unexpected strength in cybersecurity

It was better than human software engineers at finding ways code could be exploited, and proved useful for both attacking and defending systems

"this thing kind of seems like a weapon"

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

@MushtaqBilalPhD Reminds me of @barabasi ‘s work on networks and his book ‘The Formula’ where he described how an artist’s future career success could be predicted based on the first 5 shows the had

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

😂

[PJ Ace @PJaccetturo]

I used to shoot $500k pharmaceutical commercials.

I made this for $500 in Veo 3 credits in less than a day.

What’s the argument for spending $500K now?

(Steal my prompt below 👇🏼)

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

Until AI systems develop robust world models, they’ll remain like smart infants—high potential, limited understanding—regardless of compute or training scale.

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

@sjgadler This idea that we can get the model to refuse certain things doesn’t seem to be enough. Is it possible that an AI system needs a sort of moral compass rather than just denying access to information? eg all humans know how to hurt other humans but we don’t because we know its bad.

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

@Lokitoth @tunguz such a good story 🙌

[Carlos E. Perez @IntuitMachine]

Perhaps humans don't have the cognitive scaffolding to ever understand how these LLMs work.

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

Holy S*** @ProGradeDigital this SSD is a monster. #PG10 #CreativeTools #PostProduction

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

@bscholl Makes sense but still an absolute beast of an aircraft.

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

The creative offbeat style of this video is a breath of fresh air in a world of high-production value and 0% creativity car commercials. And a cool product too, Top Marks.

[Slate Auto @slateauto]

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[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

Damn Animation Composer is awesome, how have I gone so long without learning about this tool?! @MisterHorseCom

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

@jonnyelwyn what a tome! You’ll have to share a few of your favourite quotes from it in the future.

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

Want to go deeper?
Here are some great starting points:
🌐 [Future of Life Institute] - https://t.co/Q15sIA0zTq
🌐 [https://t.co/NdeyRichvv] - https://t.co/YbCj11402d
🌐 [80,000 Hours AI Problem Profile] - https://t.co/5mMae6yDff

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

AI is advancing at breakneck speed.
But safety? Not so much.
Here’s why that should concern all of us — and what I’ve been working on to help.

🧵👇
https://t.co/WSLOYEhWd9

[Sam Watkins @samzwatkins]

I had the help of an incredible team. We worked hard to make this accessible, balanced, and grounded in real research — without fear-mongering.