Josh Albert

I propose the creation of the DeTuring Award. It will be granted to people who are consistently trying (and failing) to deter society from using computer technology by scaring everyone with imaginary risks. As the Turing Award is the Nobel Prize of computing, the DeTuring Award is the IgNobel Prize of computing.

@andrewztan Interested

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I'm speaking at #RaySummit, and will be sharing how @TouchIntel is solving the challenge of scaling #AI health assistants! Join me Sept 18-20 and get 15% off w/code Albert15 bit.ly/3pKTP8s @anyscalecompute #ml #distributedcomputing #generativeai #LLM @Ray_Summit_Live

🌟 Thrilled to introduce vLLM with @woosuk_k! 🚀 vLLM is an open-source LLM inference and serving library that accelerates HuggingFace Transformers by 24x and powers @lmsysorg Vicuna and Chatbot Arena. Github: github.com/vllm-project/v… Blog: vllm.ai

@danj2k @d_feldman That theorem is so often misinterpreted. Yes it's true there's no solution that works for ALL possible programs, or even typical randomly generated programs, BUT the vast majority of computer programs are decidable!

@davidchalmers42 I have another X in mind

so, what's the best reason to think large language models are not sentient? more precisely: what's the best candidate for X such that LLMs clearly lack X and X is required for sentience?

Only two week after @DeepMind solved a 50 year old problem in computing using AlphaZero, humans beat the AI at the game. This result was arguably prompted because AI brought to light that there are solutions undiscovered. arxiv.org/abs/2210.04045

We must treat CO2 as a first class citizen, just like cost, when making business decisions. If you don't, we have no place for you in the future.

Touch Medical Intelligence is joining the Ray Summit 2022. Anyone else wanting to join to learn from experts how to deploy AI&ML systems in production (22-24 August) is welcome to use this to get a discount. #Ray #RaySummit myeventi.events/raysummit22/at…

AI has gone from automation to helping with scientific discovery. youtube.com/watch?v=jocWJi…

I love this. LaTeX was all that was needed to interpret mathematics in human language. Forget about all that Goedel incompleteness stuff. @ykilcher awesome job as usual. youtube.com/watch?v=xnChXN…

Read these remarkable highlights from the 3rd annual direct air capture summit. Now is the critical time to begin scaling up direct air capture carbon removal to stay within 1.5C. And it's totally doable! #directaircapture #ClimateEmergency climeworkscom.cdn.prismic.io/climeworkscom/…

Direct Hit! A snake-like filament launched as a big #solarstorm while in the Earth-strike zone. NASA predicts impact early July 19. Strong #aurora shows possible with this one, deep into mid-latitudes. Amateur #radio & #GPS users expect signal disruptions on Earth's nightside.

Maybe this is a little ego-centric but I discovered another Albert (last name) that I like listening to. youtube.com/watch?v=27qS0M…

Fantastic interview with my idol, Demis Hassabis. I wish one day to have coffee or tea with Demis and talk. youtube.com/watch?v=Gfr50f… @DeepMind @demishassabis

@DeepMind thinks it's on the verge of general AI. I challenge this idea. Their new model, GATO, still does not self-substantiate. uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/game-over…

@stevenstrogatz Really enjoyed this interview with @MelMitchell1 quantamagazine.org/melanie-mitche…

Fantastic work on the way to having interpretable AI. @TorstenEnsslin I'm sure you know these people. WDYT about this work? marktechpost.com/2022/04/07/res…

More on the topic of brains, look how human brains deviate from other brains in how they trade ion channel density for other forms of energy consumption. bigthink.com/neuropsych/hum…