Jason Robinson

I just published Where to Focus in the AI Age medium.com/p/where-to-foc…

I just published Play Is How Systems May Learn What Can’t Be Found medium.com/p/play-is-how-…

I just published Proofs Compound. Pattern Matching Doesn’t. medium.com/p/proofs-compo…

I just published AGI Has Been Here Since 2020 medium.com/p/agi-has-been…

I just published Proof-Based AI: What It Is and Why It Is Coming medium.com/p/proof-based-…

I just published NetHack Is Still Unbeaten. That Should Worry You. medium.com/p/nethack-is-s…

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. propublica.org/article/rfk-jr…

I just published Safety Is Architecture, Not Training medium.com/p/safety-is-ar…

@kevinhoff I often discuss sycophancy and alignment with respect to AGI. The people who advocate that ChatGPT-3 wasn't AGI because it wasn't perfect and made things up, clearly hasn't spent enough time with people outside of their own circles.

Social media trained everyone to optimize for the response, not the insight. It's the sycophancy loop applied to humans. Post what gets validated, repeat. Well, I reject this formula. I much prefer just staying loose, or what others are now calling it, Retardmaxxing.

@kevinhoff @karpathy There is a profound problem with the NPM library sprawl. Supply chain attacks are continuing to increase and it is harder and harder to keep on top of it. My approach is to use Dependabot unless I am feature seeking.

@karpathy @9thousandbytes

New supply chain attack this time for npm axios, the most popular HTTP client library with 300M weekly downloads. Scanning my system I found a use imported from googleworkspace/cli from a few days ago when I was experimenting with gmail/gcal cli. The installed version (luckily) resolved to an unaffected 1.13.5, but the project dependency is not pinned, meaning that if I did this earlier today the code would have resolved to latest and I'd be pwned. It's possible to personally defend against these to some extent with local settings e.g. release-age constraints, or containers or etc, but I think ultimately the defaults of package management projects (pip, npm etc) have to change so that a single infection (usually luckily fairly temporary in nature due to security scanning) does not spread through users at random and at scale via unpinned dependencies. More comprehensive article: stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-com…

@CyberRacheal The video codex compresses data, so frames with little change use less data than data with more changes. Those deltas are going to provide a finger print for the film you are watching.

Interviewer: When you're using a VPN, your ISP can still see how much data you’re using, but they can't see what you’re doing. However, if you're watching a 4K movie on Netflix over a VPN, a sophisticated ISP can still guess exactly what you're watching just by looking at the "shape" of your traffic. How is that possible if the data is fully encrypted?

@pmitu As long as a we are making rocks think there will be AI, the field is about 70 years old. What will be after Large Language Models? Neuromorphic systems. System that learn and think, not just pattern matching, but really understand the information that they are working with.

What will come after AI?

The Regulator: What Happens When AI Can Say ‘I Don’t Know’ medium.com/p/the-regulato…

Humans in the Loop may not be the best path. @jason.robinson/the-knowledge-machine-what-if-ai-could-learn-without-us-504c93eb6124" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@jason.robinso…

I have been working on an AI project. Please take a read. @jason.robinson/structural-alignment-why-training-ai-to-be-good-isnt-enough-a5667e471ac2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@jason.robinso…