Monthly Archives: July 2023

Events continue to come fast and furious. Custom instructions for ChatGPT. Another Congressional hearing, a call to understand what is before Congress and thus an analysis of the bills before Congress. An joint industry safety effort. A joint industry commitment … Continue reading →

I’ve finally had an opportunity to gather the available information about Llama-2 and take an in-depth look at the system card. My conclusion is that Llama-2 looks to score about 3.4 GPTs, with coding as its relative weak point. The … Continue reading →

Dylan Matthews had in depth Vox profile of Anthropic, which I recommend reading in full if you have not yet done so. This post covers that one.

By the Matt Levine Vacation Rule, I took several days to go to Seattle and there was a truly epic amount of news. We had x.AI, Llama 2, upgrades to ChatGPT, a profile of Anthropic, a ton of very interesting … Continue reading →

There is no shortage of people willing to talk about every week as a huge week in AI with tons of amazing new releases and announcements. At first this was usually right, then it mostly stopped being right. This week … Continue reading →

Recently Tyler Cowen has doubled and tripled down on the idea that congestion pricing in Manhattan would be inefficient. I respond to that in the section “A Strange Take on Congestion Pricing in New York City.” For it is, indeed, … Continue reading →

In their announcement Introducing Superalignment, OpenAI committed 20% of secured compute and a new taskforce to solving the technical problem of aligning a superintelligence within four years. Cofounder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever will co-lead the team with Head of … Continue reading →

A few months ago, Ian Hogarth wrote the Financial Times Op-Ed headlined “We must slow down the race to God-like AI.” A few weeks ago, he was appointed head of the UK Foundation Model Taskforce, and given 100 million pounds … Continue reading →

The big news of the week is OpenAI introducing the Superalignment Taskforce. OpenAI is pledging 20% of compute secured to date towards a four year effort to solve the core technical challenges of superintelligence alignment. They plan to share the … Continue reading →

The situation is evolving rapidly. Here’s where we stand as of the morning of July 4th. Well You See What Happened Was… Oh no! To be clear, by twitches, I mean ‘Elon refused to pay the cloud bill.’ EDIT: Or, … Continue reading →