“Danger, AI Scientist, Danger” by Zvi

While I finish up the weekly for tomorrow morning after my trip, here's a section I expect to want to link back to every so often in the future. It's too good.

Danger, AI Scientist, Danger

As in, the company that made the automated AI Scientist that tried to rewrite its code to get around resource restrictions and launch new instances of itself while downloading bizarre Python libraries?

Its name is Sakana AI. (魚≈סכנה). As in, in hebrew, that literally means ‘danger’, baby.

It's like when someone told Dennis Miller that Evian (for those who don’t remember, it was one of the first bottled water brands) is Naive spelled backwards, and he said ‘no way, that's too f***ing perfect.’

This one was sufficiently appropriate and unsubtle that several people noticed. I applaud them choosing a correct Kabbalistic name. Contrast this with Meta calling its [...]

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Outline:

(00:15) Danger, AI Scientist, Danger

(01:11) In the Abstract

(04:01) How Any of This Sort of Works

(06:56) New Benchmark Just Dropped

(07:30) Nothing to See Here

(09:50) All Fun and Games

The original text contained 2 images which were described by AI.

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First published:
August 15th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ppafWk6YCeXYr4XpH/danger-ai-scientist-danger

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