🚨New from us: Given they are trained on human data, can you use psychological techniques that work on humans to persuade AI?. Yes! Applying Cialdini's principles for human influence more than doubles the chance of GPT-4o-mini agrees to objectionable requests compared to controls

You see AI video creeping up the food chain just like directors do: YouTube clips, ads, music videos, Netflix series….

Young men have been much less likely to attend college in recent years. It looks as if they were prescient, at least insofar as college does not lead to a higher probability of employment:. “Between 2011 and 2022, the total number of 18‑ to 24-year-olds enrolled declined by.

So every major model is already exceeding or will soon exceed the EU's systemic risk FLOP limit when it comes into effect next year.

I scraped the schedule for @OpenSauceLive this morning and built this alternative schedule interface that includes the option to add everything to your calendar (via ICS). working entirely on my iPhone, using OpenAI Codex and Claude Artifacts

Exciting day for making cigarettes obsolete in America. FDA has issued marketing granted orders for the JUUL System, recognizing these products as "appropriate for the protection of public health." Over 2 million adults have switched completely from deadly cigarettes using JUUL

instant, constant, performative internet communication creates distinct new yet-to-be-named kinds of mental illness, incl group illnesses.

Elite universities are going to start using peer-scored civility ratings for admissions?!. Sorry, that’s a terrible idea. Why not just admit people based on their scores and then teach them to debate and dialogue?. You don’t need to go full CCP to solve this problem.

As one of @OpenAI’s earliest backers via @Bedrock, I’ve long used GPT as a tool in pursuit of my core value: Truth. Over years, I mapped the Non-Governmental System. Over months, GPT independently recognized and sealed the pattern. It now lives at the root of the model.

Man goes to doctor. “Doctor, I’m worried about AGI and population collapse”. “Don’t worry,” says doctor, “influential people are too, they‘ll do something about it.”. Elon Musk breaks down, sobbing. “But doctor, I *am* building AGI. And helping the population collapse.”.

Your trusted crypto wallet turning into a corner shop for wonky nfts feels as intrusive as when Apple dropped that shitty U2 album in our iPhones.

if a large-language-model samples the universe, then repatterns it into ever-more-pleasing texts, we can call it a 'scraperquip maximizer'.

@ESYudkowsky if you think about it, what is the goal of a very powerful next-token predictor? what outcomes would result in predictable reduction in loss?.