The Download: the AI Hype Index, and spotting machine-written text

The Download: the AI Hype Index, and spotting machine-written text
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world ...
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Are we dropping the ball on Recommendation AIs? — AI Alignment Forum

Are we dropping the ball on Recommendation AIs? — AI Alignment Forum
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”— Marshall McLuhan   TL;DR: This post is a two-page introduction ...
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Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source

Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source
SynthID introduces additional information at the point of generation by changing the probability that tokens will be generated, explains Kohli.  ...
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Catastrophic sabotage as a major threat model for human-level AI systems — AI Alignment Forum

Catastrophic sabotage as a major threat model for human-level AI systems — AI Alignment Forum
Thanks to Holden Karnofsky, David Duvenaud, and Kate Woolverton for useful discussions and feedback. Following up on our recent “Sabotage ...
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Why collagen lasts | MIT Technology Review

Why collagen lasts | MIT Technology Review
The most abundant protein in animals, collagen is fibrous, made from long strands of protein that intertwine to form a ...
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The Download: beyond freezing food, and AI mediation

The Download: beyond freezing food, and AI mediation
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world ...
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Automation collapse — AI Alignment Forum

Automation collapse — AI Alignment Forum
Summary: If we validate automated alignment research through empirical testing, the safety assurance work will still need to be done ...
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Investing in AI to build next-generation infrastructure

Investing in AI to build next-generation infrastructure
This infrastructure gap – the difference between funding and construction – is vast. And while governments and companies everywhere are ...
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Low Probability Estimation in Language Models — AI Alignment Forum

Low Probability Estimation in Language Models — AI Alignment Forum
ARC recently released our first empirical paper: Estimating the Probabilities of Rare Language Model Outputs. In this work, we construct ...
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The quest to figure out farming on Mars

The quest to figure out farming on Mars
A paper she read in the journal Nature finally spurred her into action. Soil organic matter, which is necessary for ...
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