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Norman Mu

@thenormanmu

AI Safety @ xAI | PhD @ UC Berkeley

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okay here's my take: deepmind <-> catholic openai <-> anglican anthropic <-> calvinist xai <-> pentacostal meta <-> unitarian

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pov: trying to finish your thesis before the filing deadline, which happens to be 2 days before the Newish Informational Posts and Sketches deadline

pov: trying to finish your thesis before the filing deadline, which happens to be 2 days before the Newish Informational Posts and Sketches deadline
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People—teachers, students, parents—have been complaining for a century that memorization is pointless when ā€you can just look it upā€œ. This complaint predates AI, it predates Google, it predates this internet. But it’s wrong. Here’s Pauling on why he gave closed notes exams:

People—teachers, students, parents—have been complaining for a century that memorization is pointless when ā€you can just look it upā€œ.

This complaint predates AI, it predates Google, it predates this internet.

But it’s wrong. Here’s Pauling on why he gave closed notes exams:
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What you have to remember is that Claude is not real. Claude is one of the fictional protagonists of the story that the LLM is trained to write. When you ā€œtell Claude to run a businessā€ the LLM attempts to write a story wherein the Claude character runs a business.

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I hadn’t taken the ā€œManhattan Project for AIā€ thing very seriously, but we do kind of live in a weird alternative history where a bunch of private companies discovered nuclear power before the government did

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Introducing AI Note Writer API šŸ¤– AI helping humans. Humans still in charge. Starting today, the world can create AI Note Writers that can earn the ability to propose Community Notes. Their notes will show on X if found helpful by people from different perspectives — just like

Introducing AI Note Writer API šŸ¤– AI helping humans. Humans still in charge.

Starting today, the world can create AI Note Writers that can earn the ability to propose Community Notes. Their notes will show on X if found helpful by people from different perspectives — just like
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kudos to the team for sharing the full story, warts and all also, many of your favorite AI influencers spent this entire week bloviating with zero information