Eugene Vinitsky

Reinforcement learning and autonomy researcher

Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU https://emerge-lab.github.io https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky

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Given the concerns about AI writing, be aware that Pangram has a super high false positive rate! It frequently rates my personal writing as 100% LLM written!

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The median AI safety person is a weirdo who was into it 10 years before there was any system that appeared to match their concerns. It’s more often correct to treat them as honest than disingenuous

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Google's AI search hitting new heights. Unsure how this one happens tbh

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arxiv paper now on hold for almost a week. To all the people submitting LLM slop that brought us to this place, please know that you've appreciably made the world worse

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Every person who is deceptively forcing me to read LLM text, I want you to know that I don't like you. This isn't an opinion, it's a full-fledged declaration.

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Time to use the LLM this hotel is using as its staff to solve some Erdos problems

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introducing Claude to Factorio is an AI safety strategy

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There's an upper limit to how much LLMs can accelerate science when there's still a strict requirement that the results be human interpretable and backstopped by a person's reputation

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Engineers now think they don't need managers now that they have AI. Managers think they don't need engineers now that they have AI. Fun dichotomy.

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Cannot believe anthropic managed to trick people into handing it 50 billion dollars

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