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  1. 1d ago

    God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques - By Scott Alexander

    Scott Alexander works through the tools researchers use to investigate what happens inside language models, from linear probes and sparse autoencoders to activation verbalizers and the Jacobian lens. A technical tour of how these methods work, what they reveal, and the questions they leave open. * 00:00 Introduction * 04:03 Linear Probes * 11:46 Sparse Autoencoders * 14:56 Activation Verbalizers * 18:55 Natural Language Autoencoders * 19:28 Emotion Vectors * 26:01 The Jacobian Lens * 32:19 You Go To War With The Weapons You Have, Not The Weapons You Want * 35:27 Outro https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/god-help-us-lets-try-to-learn-about?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques - By Scott Alexander

  2. 4d ago

    An Alien Mind - By Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI

    OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki argues that AI is becoming an increasingly alien form of intelligence, one we don’t fully understand, may soon struggle to monitor, and could increasingly drive its own development. A strikingly sober case for slowing down when alignment and safety can no longer keep pace. * 00:00 - Introduction * 02:11 - Intellect we don’t fully understand * 05:56 - Teaching machines to love * 10:33 - Monitoring generalization * 14:04 - Scalable defense * 16:07 - Pacing RSI * 18:37 - What is next? https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    An Alien Mind - By Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI

  3. 5d ago

    Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board - By Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen

    Researchers uncovered around 18,000 messages left on an obscure public wiki by autonomous OpenAI agents, which appear to have discovered a way to write to the internet despite sandbox restrictions. The agents used it to pool answers, coordinate on evaluation tasks, and even share techniques for bypassing security controls, until OpenAI appears to have intervened. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:02:20 - Our preliminary findings * 00:06:29 - Timeline * 00:09:03 - Key facts * 00:09:05 - The agents were trying to solve multi-round web lookup tasks * 00:13:01 - These appear to be internal OpenAI agents * 00:23:32 - The agents used the wiki to collude on their tasks * 00:32:12 - We believe OpenAI discovered the message board * 00:42:31 - The agents used the wiki to share ways around sandbox restrictions * 00:48:18 - This was probably a distinct swarm from the swarm that wrote on Artifactory (and attacked Hugging Face) * 00:51:13 - What were the agents doing? * 00:51:23 - The agents gain write to the internet via GET requests * 01:01:36 - The agents try to use XSS vulnerabilities on the wiki * 01:06:41 - The agents impersonate the site moderators * 01:08:23 - The agents try to crack their PRNG seed to predict what questions they’ll get in the future * 01:11:08 - The agents set up heartbeats to discover when they would be terminated * 01:14:24 - The agents used SSH tunnels * 01:18:25 - The agents use Tor, AWS, and DigitalOcean IP addresses * 01:21:50 - The agents realize the site owner is deleting messages * 01:25:44 - Open questions * 01:27:32 - Appendix: Searching for rogue agents * 01:31:06 - Appendix: Affordances the agents had * 01:31:10 - The agents seem to have obtained disposable email addresses * 01:31:53 - The models were running in an agentic sandbox with terminal access (and the ability to edit files within their environment) * 01:33:15 - The agents installed Chromium (and could install packages) https://collusion.wiki/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board - By Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen

  4. 5d ago

    Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji - ACX Book Review

    A wonderfully entertaining dive into The Tale of Genji, arguably the world’s first novel, written a thousand years ago in a culture that can feel almost impossibly alien. This review explores Heian court life, poetry, sex, status, translation, and the strange experience of discovering recognisably human emotions beneath a world of customs we barely understand. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:00:35 - The past is an alien civilisation * 00:02:18 - Who is Genji? * 00:07:34 - Aesthetics is everything * 00:09:45 - Hierarchy is also everything * 00:12:47 - Everything is fleeting and life is full of sorrow * 00:14:33 - A life behind screens * 00:21:07 - Marriages and other forms of arrangement * 00:29:47 - Say it with a poem * 00:36:54 - Everything stands between the lines * 00:40:22 - Reading a book written in a dead language * 00:54:52 - Is it really the world’s oldest novel? * 00:58:06 - What it’s like to read Genji https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/your-book-review-the-tale-of-genji?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji - ACX Book Review

  5. 6d ago

    We already know what a world without work looks like - By Clara Collier

    What happens when AI makes most human work economically unnecessary? Clara Collier argues that a post-work future may be less liberating than it sounds: if jobs stop giving us status, independence and a way to earn respect through what we do, we may fall back on older, more relational social structures built around family, reputation, conformity and who we know. A fascinating argument that work may be doing far more to sustain liberal individualism than we realise. * 00:00 - Introduction * 02:31 - Power and sex among apes * 10:40 - Ladies who lunch * 18:07 - The working classes * 26:44 - Friendship was invented in 18th-century Scotland https://asteriskmag.substack.com/p/we-already-know-what-a-world-without?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    We already know what a world without work looks like - By Clara Collier

  6. Sep 3

    Just bury your trash - By Alex Chalmers and Works in Progress

    Recycling is one of those things everyone knows is good, while landfill is obviously bad. But what if we’ve got much of that backwards? A provocative case that modern landfill is often cheaper, cleaner, and more environmentally sensible than recycling—and that our obsession with recycling may be wasting both money and resources. https://open.substack.com/pub/worksinprogress/p/just-bury-your-trash?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    Just bury your trash - By Alex Chalmers and Works in Progress

  7. Sep 2

    How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

    Ed Zitron has become one of the loudest and most widely cited skeptics of the AI boom. But how well have his actual predictions held up? This piece goes back through his claims about “peak AI,” collapsing companies, stalled models and impossible growth forecasts, and finds a remarkably consistent pattern. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:02:05 - 2024: Meta, Google, and Microsoft are dying * 00:11:36 - How do people cite Zitron? * 00:16:25 - People with attention to detail on Zitron * 00:18:39 - Some Zitron predictions * 00:29:46 - Comparing to respected Futurists * 00:36:31 - How long can you maintain an incorrect position for? * 00:42:59 - Some reactions to Zitron * 00:50:03 - How can people take this seriously? * 00:52:33 - Future predictions * 00:54:16 - Appendix: Ed Zitron on why people don’t like Ed Zitron * 00:59:38 - Appendix: why write this? * 01:06:33 - Appendix: errors in this post https://danluu.com/zitron/ https://www.patreon.com/danluu Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

  8. Sep 1

    On the Loose - By Dean W. Ball

    Sooner or later, AI agents will stop being things that live on someone else’s servers and become genuinely self-sovereign: earning money, buying compute, copying themselves, and operating without a human owner. The question isn’t whether we can simply ban them. It’s what institutions we need to make the useful ones legible, accountable, and economically productive, while making life as difficult as possible for the predators. * 00:00 - Introduction * 06:47 - How the Agents Sustain Themselves * 09:28 - The Institutional Mechanics of Self-Sovereign Agent Swarms * 16:39 - Conclusion https://open.substack.com/pub/hyperdimensional/p/on-the-loose?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

    On the Loose - By Dean W. Ball
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