Vlad Tislenko

@garrytan You need to formulate your thoughts, ask the right questions, and engage with the model's outputs - that boosts critical thinking and writing. You also read the inference, which is sort of reading Wikipedia.

Can someone steel man this response for me? Anyone who has spent some time using any LLM or image gen would realize these things is like bicycles for the mind I respect people who would say they wouldn’t want their kids to do it, but IMO riding a bike earlier is better

@StefanFSchubert 🦾🦾

Very good news! "Our World in Data have agreed to a seven-year funding arrangement with The Wellcome Trust, a major charitable foundation focused on global health."

@MaxCRoser @_HannahRitchie 😍

30% of the world's electricity came from renewable sources in 2023 Our Data Insight today, by my colleagues @_HannahRitchie and Pablo Rosado.

@michael_nielsen I don’t think this is the end of the researcher's partnership. Probably, they will restructure themselves (without Oxford).

The Future of Humanity Institute has shutdown 🙁 (2005-2024): futureofhumanityinstitute.org

@paulg Thanks for sharing that! Some calls (like an intro for a new partnership) make sense on zoom. Others (like operational catch-ups) are more effective just in voice.

I always prefer ordinary voice calls to Zoom calls. Zoom calls are much more work, because you have to think about what your body is doing and not just what your voice is doing. And you have to stay put; you can't pace like you can on a voice call.

@StefanFSchubert Maximizing expected choiceworthiness.

In (big and small) decisions relating to your own personal goals (not involving ethics and politics), are you a maximiser (seek the best) or satisficer (get what's good enough)? Are you an effective altruist (understood broadly)? bbc.com/worklife/artic…

@sundarpichai @ZelenskyyUa ❤️

At a time when support for Ukraine has never been more important, I was inspired by the meeting with President @ZelenskyyUa at #MSC2024 and proud to reaffirm our longstanding commitment to support cyber security resilience, education, and startups. blog.google/around-the-glo…

@TrungTPhan Uncanny valley feature

Facetime on the Apple Vision Pro looking like the final scene from “Return of the Jedi”

There is now a whole category of GPTs for startup entrepreneurs to polish their pitch decks. With healthy organic growth. 1K+ chats since the launch of the store 🤯

@pmarca The first list is huge, second is tiny.

Make a list of all the things you believe, but can’t say. Then a list of things you don’t believe, but must say.

@StefanFSchubert And underrated how good are democratic developed countries now.

It's underrated how terrible the Soviet Union was

@tobyordoxford Awesome thread! Please keep posting about this!

Stuart Russell was one of the first to point out that AI systems of the future could read all of the books about ethics and know as much about the study of ethics as anyone (with the next challenge being to make them *care*). So I wondered: what does GPT-4 know about ethics? 1/n

@robertwiblin @janleike Where is the border between aligning AI with humans and aligning humans with AI?

@elonmusk Sure, add more flat-earth content!

Would be great to have shows from all parts of the political spectrum on this platform!

@pmarca There may be more answers than one. Ethics is hard, but we can do our best. And yes, some governments may see a totalitarian scenario as the only way to go, which is another reason to take AI safety seriously.

Seriously though. If AI really is existentially dangerous, then it can't be worked on anywhere, as the risk of a lab leak is still catastrophic. The only answer is a global authoritarian dictatorship of cosmic proportions.

@tobyordoxford It is time to start AI regulation. Safety should be a higher priority than the speed of deployment of new AI products and features, at least at the big tech level.

For there is also a lot to lose by deploying too early — even just measured in terms of narrow corporate interests. Better to go slow, letting others fritter away their trust and respect if they wish, while you work on the hard task of reliably steering this new engine. 5/

I’ve been shocked by how far the new Bing AI assistant has gone off the rails — veering into crazy conversations that can insult, gaslight, or even proposition the user. 1/

@naval The people with the status of “smart” eventually start believing they are smart in ALL questions. And that is when they lose an understanding of reality.

The United States will gladly finance the Soviet Civil War until the end of time.

@vkhosla Can you share some info how you made this deal?

We were fortunate to be the first VC to invest in OpenAI and excited for the possibilities ahead. How far the company has come!

@sama Give access to Ukraine. Why do we have the same restrictions as in Russia?

openai has made a lot of improvements to our developer policies/experience and liberalized a lot of our rules. we still aren’t all the way to where we want to be; please tell us if we are doing something stupid.

@sama Increasing abundance but without an increase in overconsumption.

increasing abundance in the world seems to be one of the best ways to reduce conflict