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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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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There is a type of AI person who gets real joy from stressing people out about the rate of progress

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There is of course a temptation to submit AI slop code but that’s not new, the temptation to rush and do bad work is always there. What’s new is a belief over whether the code can be trusted without reading it

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If AI hadn’t come around, what excuse tech companies would be using for the layoffs. Oil prices too high?

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There is a claim that the OpenAI model was a "general model" rather than a specialized one. But these generalized models are presumably trained on tons of synthetic math data so it's also hard to think of them as "general"

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