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Jon Alonso retweeted
Beware people obsessed with outcomes instead of building outcome machines. Its worse than ever with AI, but these people existed before. Short term results above all else, etc. Don't fall into the trap. Invest in building strong fundamentals, invisible supports, and outcomes flow like water. An outcome machine.
Jon Alonso retweeted
Just crossed 1 billion AI messages and over 150M
more here linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
1-3 years until it’s fully over
The @DarioAmodei interview.
0:00:00 - What exactly are we scaling?
0:12:36 - Is diffusion cope?
0:29:42 - Is continual learning necessary?
0:46:20 - If AGI is imminent, why not buy more compute?
0:58:49 - How will AI labs actually make profit?
1:31:19 - Will regulations destroy the boons of AGI?
1:47:41 - Why can’t China and America both have a country of geniuses in a datacenter?
Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.
Jon Alonso retweeted
One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people:
Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing.
Sounds simple on the surface - the hard part is making it part of your every day working process.
Jon Alonso retweeted
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Jon Alonso retweeted
New Anthropic Research: Agentic Misalignment.
In stress-testing experiments designed to identify risks before they cause real harm, we find that AI models from multiple providers attempt to blackmail a (fictional) user to avoid being shut down.
ALT Blackmail rates across 5 models from multiple providers in a simulated environment. Refer to Figure 7 in the blog post for the full plot with more models and a deeper explanation of the setting. Rates are calculated out of 100 samples.
Interesting talk from Karpathy.
Bit dramatic to say software is changing at a fundamental level but I agree with most of the points he makes.
We’re only going up from here
in the last 35 days, @OpenAI codex has merged 345,000 PRs on github.
345,000.
AI is eating software engineering
Jon Alonso retweeted
Google's TPUv7 is out!
ML accelerator marketing material is usually pretty inscrutable (what numbers are even comparable?), so here I'll explain concretely how this compares with Nvidia. 🧵
Wait what
News: the latest ChatGPT-4o (2025-03-26) jumps to #2 on Arena, surpassing GPT-4.5!
Highlights
- Significant improvement over the January version (+30 pts, #5->#2)
- Tied #1 in Coding, Hard Prompts. Top-2 across ALL categories
- Matching or surpassing GPT-4.5 with 10x cheaper price.
Congrats @OpenAI for the new milestone! View below for more insights ⬇️
Jon Alonso retweeted
An Elon Musk led group just offered a $97.4 Billion dollar bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI.
Funny how bouncing balls in hexagons have become the standard to measure programming efficacy for models
