I recently had the privilege of having my idea criticized at the London Institute for Safe AI, including by Philip Kreer and Nicky Case. Previously the idea was vague; being with them forced me to make the idea specific. I managed to make it so specific that they found a...
Epistemic status: research direction Equivariance is a way of enforcing a user-specified sense of consistency across inputs for a NN. It's a concept from computer vision which I think could be used to align AIs, or rather for building an interface/framework for aligning them. So far it has been applied...
I've been reading the excellent book The Dream Machine about ARPA and PARC, the research communities that invented the personal computer (before them computers were just tools for military research projects). Xerox PARC was managed by Bob Taylor, a great manager who drew on the management style of many great...
I recently had the privilege of having my idea criticized at the London Institute for Safe AI, including by Philip Kreer and Nicky Case. Previously the idea was vague; being with them forced me to make the idea specific. I managed to make it so specific that they found a problem with it! That's progress :)
The problem is to do with syntax... (read 663 more words →)
This year's Spring ACX Meetup everywhere in Cambridge UK.
Location: Upstairs at The Bath House – https://plus.codes/9F426439+JC
Contact: hamish.todd1@gmail.com
Epistemic status: research direction
Equivariance is a way of enforcing a user-specified sense of consistency across inputs for a NN. It's a concept from computer vision which I think could be used to align AIs, or rather for building an interface/framework for aligning them.
So far it has been applied exclusively in CV - so it's speculation (by me) that you could apply it beyond CV. But I think I can convince you it's a reasonable speculation because, as you'll see, equivariance and consistency, for neural networks, are deeply linked mathematically.
Like me I imagine you expect (/hope!) that "consistency with the law" or "moral consistency" will turn out to be formalizable-enough to be part... (read 1369 more words →)
I've been reading the excellent book The Dream Machine about ARPA and PARC, the research communities that invented the personal computer (before them computers were just tools for military research projects).
Xerox PARC was managed by Bob Taylor, a great manager who drew on the management style of many great people before him. PARC is an astonishing example of far-out thinking colliding with cutting-edge technology, and it involved many extremely intelligent free-thinkers (read: difficult-to-"manage" people) coming together. There are many PARC-isms; another one is the fact that they had meetings on beanbags instead of chairs, apparently in order to stop people rising to their feet to denounce others.
Taylor distinguished class 1 and class... (read 247 more words →)
Calling all Cambridge dwellers! We're having a Schelling meetup. It is UPSTAIRS, you have to go through a door and down a hall but it is a lovely space.
NOTE that Lesswrong event pages for our meetups are rare. I have an email list and I just email everyone on the list. So give me your email if you want to come again!
We are a friendly bunch, the standard mix of software devs, academics, and the occasional lawyer.
"Did you read [the latest SSC post]?" is always an effective icebreaker. Sometimes we discuss AI, sometimes we discuss things that are not AI. We have a broad range of timelines!
REMINDER! Saturday, 2pm, Bath House, LessWrong/AstralCodexTen/SlateStarCodex! Looking forward to seeing y'all!
So, my name is Hamish Peter Todd. My facebook handle was hamishpetertodd for a while, and my twitter used to be hamishpetertodd. There are one or two connections to my person here:
- I created a documentary called "Virus, the Beauty of the Beast" in 2016. Seems connected to this "Beast" thing? It's about biological viruses though, not computer viruses
- I spent some time in the video games industry and I notice video games are somewhat a part of that word cloud? I've written a large amount about video games online.
- In particular I was very into Final Fantasy when I was a teenager, and made many posts on Final Fantasy and Kingdom... (read more)
We have these on the third Saturday of every month, whether you see an event here! Email me if you'd like to be added to the list to be notified every month.
Hey folks, just to say I gave this talk on Intelligence Signalling :) inspired by Hanson
This year's ACX Meetup everywhere in Cambridge, UK.
Location: Bath House Pub, UPSTAIRS!! I will have a copy of Peter Singer's _The Most Good You Can Do_ – 9F426439+J9
My phone/WhatsApp number is +44 0730 *** 3550, where the *** are replaced by the serial number of the Boeing plane whose first flight was on September 2, 1998. Email me to get on the mailing list for future events if you'd like that :)
Contact: hamish.todd1@gmail.com
We meet on the third Saturday of every month. The group has been around almost a year and is well-attended!