Stephen McAleese

Software engineer interested in AI.

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There’s a lot of focus on using AI to increase productivity and throughput but I haven’t seen many people focusing on techniques for increasing quality while keeping throughput constant.

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This Substack post has some good career advice in the context of AI: https://t.co/RiXkdMrKpc

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@itsolelehmann @kimmonismus I don't think he said that. He said "In 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code." and that's basically what's happened at a lot of companies.

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@Noahpinion What about Ireland?

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A good analysis on the economic and social effects of future AI: https://t.co/mdxEKLa25n

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@jachiam0 Ok but the problem is that the AI companies are stuck in a Prisoner’s Dilemma-style multi-polar trap where they have to keep racing ahead to keep up with the other AI companies even if doing so is unpopular.

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@perrymetzger What about Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton who have a similar view?

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Interesting paper showing how there is an "AI assistant" steering vector: steering towards the AI assistant direction results in more stereotypical AI assistant behavior. Steering away causes the AI to adopt a wide variety of dramatic and entertaining personalities.

The Assistant Axis: Situating and Stabilizing the Default Persona of Language Models: https://t.co/GW4t0ZCQij

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@xingpt @grok please translate this post to English

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Software engineering in the 2020s seems to be going through the kind of industrial revolution the textile industry went through in the 1700s: https://t.co/4cM8vFaGnF

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@danfaggella @garrytan Maybe some people would choose both (e.g. work on work days and relax on the weekend)?

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@robgabel @1Josh23 @MattWalshBlog Seems like learn to plumb is the new learn to code.

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Interesting how AI models see the world in a different way to humans:

"Interestingly, we also found many cases where humans strongly agree on an answer, but the AI models get it wrong. For the third example below, most people agree the starfish is the odd one out. But most vision models focus more on superficial features like background color and texture, and choose the cat instead."

https://t.co/xY65jpoOS6

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@robbensinger Do you know if Elon Musk has read it yet?

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I wrote a new blog post on LLM interpretability:
https://t.co/hSRfK7jXxS

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"Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence:
Insights from the Science of Consciousness" is a great paper on applying different theories of consciousness to understand whether AI models are conscious: https://t.co/TOvw2s64de

The conclusion is that current AI models don't seem to be conscious but that could change in the future.

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@egirlian @Duderichy Sam Altman is 40.

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@lovabler0gue @adam__isom @chinesegon A key role of PMs is to talk to customers to figure out what they want.

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Interesting article on some benefits of AI: https://t.co/ARhBnxOBg4

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Good article on the role of people in an advanced AI economy: https://t.co/GNW3q8BVDD

> "Technical education will become more critical than ever—it will be needed to train the human auditors capable of overseeing these powerful systems. We will still need technical specialists, but their primary role will shift from generation (doing the task) to discrimination (auditing the AI's work)."