Boaz Barak
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Computer Scientist. See also https://t.co/EXWR5k634w . @harvard @openai opinions my own.
Cambridge, MA
Joined January 2020
RT @deanwball: The jump in the performance and utility of frontier models between April 2024 (eg gpt-4 turbo) and April 2025 (o3) is bigger….
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Another way to say this is that if the average person takes ~10 photos a day and gets ~100 emails a day then then if they stopped storing photos and emails at all, over a year of storage they would save about 1 liter per day. This is less than 1% of the average UK consumption
Folks, I ran the numbers on the UK government's recommendation to delete old photos and emails to save water. Link below
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I am teaching AI safety and not AI engineering but already took @sh_reya up on her offer!.
boazbk.github.io
Fall semester is starting, and many universities are rolling out AI engineering courses. If you teach an AI engineering course at your university, email me at shreyashankar@berkeley.edu or DM me for a free copy of our 11-chapter, 166-page course reader to share with your
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RT @alxndrdavies: We at @AISecurityInst worked with @OpenAI to test GPT-5's safeguards. We identified multiple jailbreaks, including a univ….
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RT @christinahkim: a very good yap about GPT-5 + agents with @isafulf. wild to think about the evolution from webgpt to chatgpt and now to….
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Is Luke Farritor an effective altruist? I thought DOGE was about maximizing harm per dollar saved, rather than maximizing benefit per dollar spent.
It's actually very easy to make the claim that guys like Luke Farritor and Sam Bankman-Fried did so much global damage that they have made the EA/rationalists movements one of the most transparently net negative schools of thought to have ever been dreamt into existence.
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Not the worst issue with that article. I am not a rationalist/EA (and most of them probably don't like me, given my employer) but an article about them should mention they have given hundreds of millions to clearly good causes like global health and some even donated kidneys to.
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RT @hauntsaninja: i sampled some of OpenAI's older models; i think this helps you feel AI progress more viscerally
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RT @ben_golub: And this was not even the most offensive thing in the New York times this week!.
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RT @JeffDean: My longtime collaborator Dave Patterson (long-time faculty at @UCBerkeley, @TheOfficialACM Turing Award winner, and fellow @L….
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RT @AlecStapp: We should be much more explicit about the tradeoff here:. The Teamsters are demanding that we let thousands of people die in….
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RT @thekaransinghal: Sharing the health segment at the GPT-5 livestream today. Thank you Carolina and Felipe for sharing your story. https:….
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RT @joannejang: 🛞 the personalities research preview is about impressive steerability advancements. it happens to be wrapped in delight, b….
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RT @BethMayBarnes: The good news: due to increased access (plus improved evals science) we were able to do a more meaningful evaluation tha….
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RT @ericzakariasson: gpt-5 is now free in @cursor_ai, go try it out! (reload cursor if you don't see it yet). we've worked closely with @Op….
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RT @KerenGu: GPT-5 with thinking is another model we are treating as High capability under the preparedness framework. We've activated bior….
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RT @simonw: I've had preview access to GPT-5 for a couple of weeks, so I have a lot to say about it. Here's my first post, focusing just on….
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I’ve had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks (see related video and my disclosures) and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver. It’s …
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RT @thekaransinghal: GPT-5 substantially pushes the frontier of health performance and safety and is widely available to all users today. D….
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