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Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?
10+ hour, 10+ min ago (553+ words) Dario Amodei seems to think so. Or at least Axios thinks he thinks so, based on Amodei’s new essay. We think that’s (a) a vague claim, and (b) pretty implausible as best we can understand it. But in fairness also…...
Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.
1+ week, 4+ day ago (204+ words) The Information just broke the scoop that OpenAI is playing around with a new technique, in which models will reveal less of their “thinking”, making them harder to monitor. The new techniques they are exploring may make such monitoring difficult…...
Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1030+ words) The popular podcaster Dwarkesh Patel wrote something completely viral about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, which purports to tell the whole story in plain English: It’s well-written and compelling, and it reminds me of something Douglas Hofstadter once wrote about…...
ARR vs ARR. Watch out for this one sly trick.
3+ week, 10+ hour ago (259+ words) Anthropic’s boosters are rushing to celebrate their ARR. As they do, be mindful that the acronym ARR can actually mean two rather different things, Annual Recurring Revenue or Annualized Run Rate. (And 65 other things, less immediately relevant.) You might think…...