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Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
@AndrewCritchPhD
CEO @ theMultiplicity.ai. AI Researcher @ Berkeley. Views my own. I also post my favorite healthy+tasty foods for free.
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Jun 28
    This new eval shows how you can use AI models from different providers to boost performance by 20%+ on a suite of technical problems involving logic, numeracy, geometry, calculus, statistics, and coding. Simply put, the models can catch each other making mistakes. 1/🧡
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Jul 16, 2023
    Without internationally enforced speed limits on AI, humanity is very unlikely to survive. From AI's perspective in 2-3 years from now, we look more like plants than animals: big slow chunks of biofuel showing weak signs of intelligence when undisturbed for ages (seconds) on end.
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Jan 1, 2024
    When I count on my fingers, I use binary, so I can count to 31 on one hand, or 1023 on two. It took me about 1 hour to train the muscle memory, and it's very rhythmic, so now my right hand just auto-increments in binary till I'm done, and then I just read off the number.
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    Daniel Filan πŸ”Ž
    @freed_dfilan
    Jan 1, 2024
    FYI: you can count up to 100 on your fingers like so: - right hand is ones - left hand is tens - thumbs are 5/50, fingers are 1/10. This is convenient enough that it's the way I count by default. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisanbop
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Mar 11, 2024
    AI safety's most concise summary ever, from @AndrewRousso. And they said it couldn't be explained...
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Mar 16, 2023
    Dear everyone who wants to regulate and slow down AI: please stop fighting over who has the Most Correct Reason for the slow down. Just work together and make it happen! Reasons in alphabetical order: * autonomous weapons * bias * biosecurity * children's safety (more...)
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Oct 4, 2023
    My followers might hate this idea, but I have to say it: There's a bunch of excellent LLM interpretability work coming out from AI safety folks (links below, from Max Tegmark, Dan Hendrycks, Owain Evans et al) studying open source models including Llama-2. Without open source,
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    Wes Gurnee
    @wesg52
    Oct 4, 2023
    Do language models have an internal world model? A sense of time? At multiple spatiotemporal scales? In a new paper with @tegmark we provide evidence that they do by finding a literal map of the world inside the activations of Llama-2!
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Oct 16, 2023
    Reminder: Without internationally enforced speed limits on AI, I think humanity is very unlikely to survive. From AI's perspective in 2-3 years from now, we look more like plants than animals: big slow chunks of biofuel showing weak signs of intelligence when undisturbed for
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Mar 16, 2023
    Replying to @AndrewCritchPhD
    * cybersecurity * discrimination * existential risk * fake news * global conflict * harassment bots * human extinction * mental health * national security * social media addiction * terrorism * unemployment I don't agree with all these, but I endorse the conclusion: regulate AI!
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Nov 29, 2023
    Yann LeCun is calling the list of scientists and founders below "idiots" for saying extinction risk from AI should be a global priority. Using insults to make a point is a bad sign for the point… plus Hinton, Bengio, and Sutskever are the most cited AI researchers in history:
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    Yann LeCun
    @ylecun
    Nov 29, 2023
    The AI doomers are the "useful idiots" of the proprietary AI industry.
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Jul 23, 2023
    From my recollection, >5% of AI professionals I’ve talked to about extinction risk have argued human extinction from AI is morally okay, and another ~5% argued it would be a good thing. I've listed some of their views below. You may find it shocking or unbelievable that these
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Dec 12, 2023
    Belated congrats to @ilyasut for becoming the third most cited AI researcher of all time, before turning 40… huge! He's actually held the spot for a while β€” even before GPT-4 β€” but it seems many didn't notice when it happened. Go Canada πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ for a claim on all top three πŸ˜€
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Dec 4, 2024
    I'm really not looking forward to the "Are AIs human?" culture wars that will intensify in 2027+. The answer is "No, but some AIs will have moral value, but it's still wrong to betray humanity for AI," and each clause there will have a different faction that's too extreme :-/
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Sep 6, 2024
    As recently as last year I attended a tech forecasting gathering where a professional geneticist tried to call bullsh*t on my claims that protein-protein interaction modelling would soon be tractable with AI. His case had something to do with having attended meetings with George
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    Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️
    @ESYudkowsky
    Sep 5, 2024
    DeepMind just published AlphaProteo for de novo design of binding proteins. As a reminder, I called this in 2004. And fools said, and still said quite recently, that DM's reported oneshot designs would be impossible even to a superintelligence without many testing iterations.
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    Andrew Critch (πŸ€–πŸ©ΊπŸš€)
    @AndrewCritchPhD
    Jan 1, 2024
    Reminder: "Mitigating the risk of (human) extinction from artificial intelligence should be a global priority", according to… The CEOs of the world’s three leading frontier AI labs: β€’ Demis Hassabis β€” CEO, Google DeepMind β€’ Dario Amodei β€” CEO, Anthropic β€’ Sam Altman β€” CEO,
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    JΓΌrgen Schmidhuber
    @SchmidhuberAI
    Nov 27, 2023
    AI boom v AI doom: since the 1970s, I have told AI doomers that in the end all will be good. E.g., 2012 TEDx talk:Β youtu.be/KQ35zNlyG-o:Β β€œDon’t think of us versus them: us, the humans, v these future super robots. Think of yourself, and humanity in general, as a small stepping
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