Seeking sentient-friendly; Prev. postdoc with @Yoshua_Bengio @Mila_Quebec | PhD @NUSingapore

Joined September 2013
🐸 We propose a super efficient approach for mechanistic interpretability: decompose weight matrices from a pretrained LLM into sparse circuit units directly, instead of training a separate sparse representation. See more in the blog post: huggingface.co/spaces/veri-s…
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The term “AGI” is currently a vague, moving goalpost. To ground the discussion, we propose a comprehensive, testable definition of AGI. Using it, we can quantify progress: GPT-4 (2023) was 27% of the way to AGI. GPT-5 (2025) is 58%. Here’s how we define and measure it: 🧵
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Using LLMs to build AI scientists is all the rage now (e.g., Google’s AI co-scientist [1] and Sakana’s Fully Automated Scientist [2]), but how much do we understand about their core scientific abilities? We know how LLMs can be vastly useful (solving complex math problems) yet unreliable (counting the number of "R"s in "strawberry" or calculating 9.9 - 9.11) at the same time. Similarly, despite recent advances in applying LLMs to science, are we confident that they can reliably uncover the underlying mechanism of a simple black-box system in a controlled setting? We study this question in our new preprint: 📢👇 (1/n)
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So happy this is out! IMO a 100% perfect solution to alignment would only cut x-risk by ~50%. We're on track to put AI in charge of everything. We need to find a way to defuse the competitive pressures driving this dynamic -- This is critically missing from the public debate!
New paper: What happens once AIs make humans obsolete? Even without AIs seeking power, we argue that competitive pressures will fully erode human influence and values. gradual-disempowerment.ai/ with @jankulveit @raymondadouglas @AmmannNora @degerturann @DavidSKrueger 🧵
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Today, we are publishing the first-ever International AI Safety Report, backed by 30 countries and the OECD, UN, and EU. It summarises the state of the science on AI capabilities and risks, and how to mitigate those risks. 🧵 Link to full Report: assets.publishing.service.go… 1/16
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Godfather of AI Yoshua Bengio: 🚨🚨🚨 the shoggoths are now trying to escape and we have no idea how to stay in control Andrew Ng: ha yea we'll figure it out 🤗 Bengio: ok but if we don't u get that everyone dies right?? Andrew Ng: AGI is like a laptop 🤗 Bengio: bro wtf no
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We discussed AI safety with @Yoshua_Bengio at NeurIPS 2024 - he proposes that we should design agency out of AI systems. Releasing on MLST soon.
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I didn't see the talk, but the images I've seen of the slide seem quite offensive. Such generalizations should have no place in NeurIPS or anywhere else.
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They caught this model trying to escape, but they're releasing it anyways. 🙃
OpenAI o1 is now out of preview in ChatGPT. What’s changed since the preview? A faster, more powerful reasoning model that’s better at coding, math & writing. o1 now also supports image uploads, allowing it to apply reasoning to visuals for more detailed & useful responses.
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🔊Advance AI Safety Research & Development: Apply for Global AI Safety Fellowship 2025 🧵 🌟What: The Fellowship is a 3-6 month fully-funded research program for exceptional STEM talent worldwide. (1/10) ... @aisafetyfellows
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With a few tricks, Llama-3-8B can be continued trained to outperform GPT-4 on Medical tasks. For more details, check our paper Efficient Continual Pre-training by Mitigating the Stability Gap (arxiv.org/abs/2406.14833)!
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[1/n] 🚀🚀🚀 Hello world!🌍We're excited to announce that all models from our project (🌮TACO: Topics in Algorithm for Code) are now available on Hugging Face!🤗:huggingface.co/FlagOpen We've full finetuned SoTA code models like CodeLlama, Starcoder from 1B to 15B parameters.🏋️‍♂️
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Our work on inferring cell replicational age on single-cell ATAC data has been published in Nature Biotechnology!
Our work on infering cell replicational age on single-cell ATAC data is published! Congratulations to Yu, Wan, Lingao and Jie @bigaidream
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Arrived in Vienna 🇦🇹 for #iclr24! Feel free to drop by and chat about LLM safety and alignment! My peer @ChenmienTan is presenting his Model Editing work via Meta-Learning at Tue 4:30pm in poster session located at Halle B #137. Please come and discuss!
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Jie Fu retweeted
New paper from @RekaAILabs 🔥 (yes an actual paper). This time we're releasing part of our internal evals which we call Vibe-Eval 😃 This comprises of a hard set which imo is pretty challenging for frontier models today. The fun part here is that we constructed it by trying to wreck our own model (e.g., Reka Core). 😈 However, it turns out on >50% of them, none of the frontier models can do them anyways. Making hard prompts has a lot of challenges that people often don't talk too much about. We discuss some of them in the paper. Notably, because our benchmark is hard, we are able to also induce further separability across frontier models. We benchmark 13 representative multimodal models and share some findings and insights. 🔹 Gemini Pro 1.5 and GPT-4V are roughly equally capable. Gemini 1.5 is really really strong and surpassed our expectations from Gemini 1.0. 🔹 Claude-3 and Reka models are a slight tier behind but substantially much better than any OSS model. Reka Core and Flash are roughly better than Claude-3 on normal tasks. However, on hard tasks they are nerf-ed due to our data collection process. More details in the paper (link below). 👇
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Meet Reka Core, our best and most capable multimodal language model yet. 🔮 It’s been a busy few months training this model and we are glad to finally ship it! 💪 Core has a lot of capabilities, and one of them is understanding video --- let’s see what Core thinks of the 3 body trailer.👇
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Try our code editing 👩‍💻👨‍💻🧑‍💻 benchmark for LLMs
[1/n] 🚀🚀🚀 Excited to share our latest work: "CodeEditorBench:Evaluating Code Editing Capability of Large Language Models"! codeeditorbench.github.io/ ### 🧐 Highlights of the CodeEditorBench: > 8K meticulously collected code editing questions from five sources: namely leetcode, code_contests, CodeXGLUE, codeNet and Taco > Spanning four basic development tasks:Code Debugging🐛, Code Translating🌐, Code Polishing✨, and Code Requirement Switching🔄 > 14 basic algorithms 📊, such as dynamic programming, depth-first search and greedy > 12 basic data structures 🗂️, such as tree, stack and queue > Focuses on evaluating the performance of LLMs in real-world scenarios and practical aspects of software development #AIResearch #LargeLanguageModels #CodeEditing #Benchmark
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