LessWrong posts by zvi

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.’As a result, Twitter has been forced to rate limit users.This started out as 600 posts per day for most accounts, 300 posts per day for new accounts and 6,000 posts per day for those who pay.This is now up to 1k/500/10k according to one Musk tweet.If you are not logged in, you get nothing. Even direct links

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, a very strange take, claiming that it is good for the surplus produced by Manhattan if everyone involved spends their time stuck in traffic, so as to not impose a minor tax that will in some portion fall on visitor cars.There also continues to be a lot happening in the

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 papers on a variety of topics, several podcasts that demand listening, fully AI-generated South Park episodes and so much more. I could not fully keep up. Oh, and now we have Barbieheimer.Thus, I have decided to spin out or push to next week coverage of four stories:The release of Llama 2.The

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 to dedicate to AI safety, to universal acclaim. Soon there will also be a UK Global AI Summit.He wrote an op-ed in The Times asking everyone for their help, with accompanying Twitter thread. Based on a combination of sources, I am confident that this effort has strong backing for

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 we had Code Interpreter and Claude 2.0 and x.AI (whatever that actually is) and a bunch of other stuff, while I was still processing OpenAI’s huge announcement of their Superalignment Taskforce. As usual, when there’s lots of great stuff that makes it that much harder to actually find

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 Alignment Jan Leike.This is a real and meaningful commitment of serious firepower. You love to see it. The announcement, dedication of resources and focus on the problem are all great. Especially the stated willingness to learn