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NHS policy lead by day, vibe coder by night. Interested in AI policy, safety, and broader effects on society.
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It’s a strong model. But the mental gymnastics on display around its release are like nothing anyone has seen before. Competing on quality is ultimately what matters, and the Mythos class models are light years ahead at this point.
We've usually stayed away from model comparisons but 5.6 vs Fable is a unique situation
We've never had a case where the team is so completely convinced on which one is better
Here's the timeline of our experience with it
- We test early versions of 5.6 for a couple of weeks and have a great time, it feels like a step change improvement, enabling new workflows
- We get to try Fable and don't think it's not as good, I personally would take this experience with a grain of salt, there tends to be a bias when trying a new model when you already like another
- Fable and 5.6 are taken away because of the regulatory issues
- Our team is literally depressed that 5.6 is gone, we are looking for anything that could even partly replace it
- Fable comes back, and here's where it gets interesting, you would think Fable would be enough, but no, the team is still depressed that 5.6 isn't available
- Then 5.6 comes back and it's immediately clear that it's just way better than Fable
This situation was unique in that it was the closest we've ever gotten to having an unbiased comparison of two models
Henri Rapson retweeted
Cool use case of AlphaFold, this is just the beginning of digital biology!
this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
Henri Rapson retweeted
This is a key moment for modeling positive institutional change as a result of AI: CEOs who brag about how they are using it to expand, rather than just cut headcount; governments that work with AI systems to expand access to education or healthcare, etc.
People need examples!
This is a beautiful act of integrity and principle, incredibly rare for our time. Thank you, Anthropic.
anthropic.com/news/statement…
Henri Rapson retweeted
One of the themes of Chanukah is the perseverance of light over darkness.
Holocaust survivors, like my great grandmother Lily Ebert, are powerful lights that guide us and make the world a brighter place.
Wishing a warm and light Chanukah to all celebrating in these dark times.
Henri Rapson retweeted
Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay - the international day to remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside millions of other people murdered under Nazi persecution of other groups, and in more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. #HMD2023
Henri Rapson retweeted
BREAKING🚨| The government has announced anti-strike legislation.
When workers democratically vote to strike, they can be forced to work and sacked if they don’t. This is wrong, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal.
Henri Rapson retweeted
“While we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.”.
Queen Elizabeth II
Henri Rapson retweeted
This is how I try to do my job in leading the company with a culture of trust and kindness.
Henri Rapson retweeted
Huge congrats to @imperialcollege. Second time bested by such a deserving team. Huge love to @MargaretOunsley, @Sylvianism, Kira, Alex & Sarah, think we did Reading proud. Didn’t dream of getting this far & here we are meeting a Nobel Prize winner post-final #universitychallenge
Henri Rapson retweeted
Delighted to be invited to @speakrs4schools which seeks ‘to open up access to the very top for young people’ coming from state funded, comprehensive schools. I’d never met a professional in a suit (shirt & tie or equivalent) until my sixth form. If you can see it, you can do it. – at Chester, England
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I think I would probably get rid of a player who kicked and hit an animal for ‘laughs’ in his kitchen. All in front of his child.
Henri Rapson retweeted
It’s Holocaust Memorial Day. This year, I’m thinking of a woman called Sulamita Szapiro. Here she is as a student. We weren’t related and I don’t even know much about her, but I’m pretty sure that remembering her still falls to me. This is a thread about why.
Henri Rapson retweeted
Last year people across the UK came together to mark #HolocaustMemorialDay 2021.
Join us this year for #HMD2022, as we remember all those murdered during the Holocaust and genocide, and #LightTheDarkness against prejudice and hatred.
Henri Rapson retweeted
Chris Whitty @CMO_England has just summed it all up very nicely: “There are several things we don’t know about Omicron, but all the things we do know are bad.”