2 hours ago
For all the hate that Google (rightly) gets for some of their work in other domains, I appreciate that they continue to put major resources behind using AI to try and save lives in medicine and autonomous driving.
Easy to take for granted, but their peer companies are not doing this type of long term investment.
2 hours ago
This is so awesome. Hoping those in the biology field can comment on the significance.
23 minutes ago
Hell yeah
8 hours ago
I am concerned about this kind of technology being used to circumvent traditional safeguards and international agreements that prevent the development of biological weapons.
4 hours ago
Well you might be pleased to know that there are large safety teams working at all frontier model companies worried about the same thing! You could even apply if you have related skills.
an hour ago
I thought openAI gave up on safety when Anthropic splintered off as well as when they engaged ScaleAI to traumatize people for RLHF?
Or Google when they fired Timnit?
4 hours ago
Are these safety teams subject to the oversight of more estabilished international agreements and safeguards?
3 hours ago
I mean.. they work within the legal frameworks of very large corporations with nation state engagement. It's not like they're autonomous anonymous DAOs
3 hours ago
Hi! I work directly on these teams as a model builder and have talked to my colleagues are the other labs well.
All our orgs have openings and if you also could consider working for organizations such as the UK AISI team and other independent organizations that are assessing these models. It's a critical field and there is a need for motivated folks.
2 hours ago
That does not answer my question.
5 minutes ago
We’ve just had a virus - specifically engineered to be highly infectious for humans - escaping the lab (which was running very lax safety level - BSL2 instead of required BSL4) and killing millions and shutting down half the globe. So I’m wondering what safeguards and prevention you’re talking about :)
2 hours ago
Seems like no matter how positive the headline about the technology is, there is invariably someone in the comments pointing out a worst case hypothetical. Is there a name for this phenomenon?
2 hours ago
Rational discourse? Not working for a marketing team? Realism?
2 hours ago
Not believing everything you read on the internet? Being jaded from constant fluff and lies? Not having gell-mann amnesia?
I get your sentiment of "why you gotta bring down this good thing" but the answer to your actual question is battle scars from the constant barrage of hostile lies and whitewashing we are subject to. It's kind of absurd (and mildly irresponsible) to think "THIS time will be the time things only go well and nobody uses the new thing for something I don't want".
an hour ago
Pessimism?