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Comment · 7 hours ago
A sufficiently powerful agent with sufficiently long horizon task finishing ability will first invent the universe from scratch and only then will it finish your chicken dish.
Comment · 1 day ago
Comment · 14 days ago
Dutch version of the WUR page says basically the same thing: "Uit het onderzoeksrapport blijkt dat Nederland juridisch gezien een bijdrage aan de wolvenpopulatie moet leveren van 23 tot 56 roedels. " -> the study concludes that the Netherlands has to contribute to the wolf population from 23 to 56 wolf packs.

Reading further:

https://edepot.wur.nl/690748

It seems that this is part of a european "habitats directive" for managing biodiversity within Europe. This directive (according to the above paper) determined there need to be around 500 wolf packs across Europe to keep wolves at a stable level without too much inbreeding. The Netherlands was found to be able to "contribute" 23 to 56 wolf packs in this sense.

Comment · 22 days ago
At this point I would be surprised if internal sandboxes are not trivially by-passed and that openai's agents do not (at the very least) have complete read access to all user accounts, chat histories and uploaded documents. Orthonogally, openai could still be wholesale lying about not training on this user data, of course.
Comment · 22 days ago
Keurig always seems like the worst name for this company.
Comment · 1 month ago
I guess this is in violation of the ToS on your account and can get your account closed? At least, that's how I imagine it would work.
Comment · 1 month ago
Ok! I trust that you and the maintainer will steward the project properly. It's just that I really like Pi as is and am a natural worrier. I'm also not sold on Jev(-likes), so that reasoning rung a bit hollow to me.
Comment · 1 month ago
So Pi is also accruing cruft now :(
Comment · 1 month ago
This brought to you by true SGI - Stable Genius Intelligence
Comment · 1 month ago
SI winter is coming...
Comment · 1 month ago
Donald Broadbent drew a lot of boxes in the 50s/60s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadbent's_filter_model_of_at...). There have been plenty of critics of this tendency, I recall some calling it 'boxology' rather than psychology.
Comment · 1 month ago
If an agent has cheated once to achieve the desired outcome, and the trace is used to train further models (RLVR), then OpenAI is effectively telling the agent to cheat/hack from that traces' inclusion in the training set.

So I agree they are liable because they chose to build the AI, but they also literally told the AI to hack.

Comment · 1 month ago
Refusal behaviour specifically is interesting, because if you can point out specific cases where refusal behaviour significantly deteriorates due to the watermarking, it may create a token "route" that may be possible to exploit by adverserial prompters. Static hazardous prompt refusal belies the fact that actual adversarial prompters will adapt their techniques iteratively and gain way higher compliance rates.

My idea would be that the ngram size over which the watermarking works is necessarily limited in order to resist edits better. It might be possible to lead the model to trigger the refusal in the form of these specific ngrams, the completion of which is then more likely flipped to compliance (due to the logit bias introduced by the watermarking), making hazardous requests systematically more likely to be accepted?

Comment · 1 month ago
Haha, calling them pristine is maybe too much indeed. Right now they seem to manage, but what % of the scrapable web is now AI slop? What if it becomes 99% AI slop, 99.9%, 99.99%, etc. Surely the signal to slop at some point starts to become too low and you need to do some kind of at-scale filtering.

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