Rob Miles
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Rob Miles
@robertskmiles
Explaining AI Alignment to anyone who'll stand still for long enough, on YouTube and Discord.
Music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery
- Google is now apparently 'using AI' to completely fail to do things that it used to be able to do perfectly using good old fashioned code
- Did you know: The US Interstate Highway System has never been profitable in all the time it's been operating. It actually loses an enormous amount of money every year and can only exist because of massive government subsidy
- I want to say again, as a person with a Computer Science degree who is generally hugely in favour of technical solutions to social problems: No computer voting machine system that our civilisation can deploy is better than paper ballots
- Tech: Oh you'll love 'USB-C'. High speed data, fast charging, even video, all with one connector! Us: Wow, just one type of cable for everything! Tech: No there'll still be lots of different types of cable, but now they'll all look the same
- Replying to @JquinMustermanThis is correct. Specifically, I often see people talking about american mass transit systems 'losing money' as though that's a significant point against them
- "Nothing ever happens" is a great heuristic that gives you the right answer 95% of the time, giving the wrong answer only in the 5% of cases where getting the right answer is most important
- Interestingly the most noticable effect of regular strength training in my daily life so far is that I'm effectively much weaker, because some subset of my muscles is always on strike
- I think most people (quite reasonably) think "We built ChatGPT, so we must basically understand how it works" This is not true at all. Humans did not build ChatGPT. In a way it would be closer to say we 'grew' it. We have basically no idea how it does what it does.
- Replying to @rtwlzThis is very cool, but enforcing laws is good actually
- Prediction: iPhones will get an option for the camera that cryptographically signs photos and videos, so it's easy to verify that an image came straight from the camera without modification
- Replying to @robertskmilesUpdate: Possibly it was this broken before? I don't remember it ever being anywhere near this broken, but some people are saying it always was. I don't know.
- Replying to @robertskmilesTheir results are bizarre and inhuman. @NeelNanda5 trained a tiny transformer to do addition, then spent weeks figuring out what it was doing - one of the only times in history someone has understood how a transformer works. This is the algorithm it created. To *add two numbers*!
- This is what I've been saying! Modern tech design seriously undervalues low latency. They make architectural decisions that make a responsive experience very difficult to achieve, and end up building pretty but annoyingly laggy craphow come a company founded over 100 years ago has the fastest site on the internet?
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