Mary Branscombe

Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Like my writing? Buy me a ☕ https://ko-fi.com/marybranscombe. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. signal marypcbuk.44

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I’ve seen the paper. It’s not a jailbreak. It was Defense Oriented Prompting (DOP) - a capability defenders need. My thoughts about the hasty Export Controls that made Anthropic halt access to Fable. If national defense is the goal, this is an own goal against us www.wsj.com/t…

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most detailed reporting I've seen on the back and forth between anthropic and the white house. same basic shape reported elsewhere but more texture and quotes

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Recent commentary

this will make @ironyuppie.com laugh: I'm reading an IBM blog about how AI fails without real time data and only they can fix it and there is NO DATE on the blog post (but it does link to what it calls a recent study that's from 2022, so there's that)

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Resisting the urge to reply to a GitHub comment where someone has clearly pasted the thread into ChatGPT and asked it to parse it and then regurgitated that into the thread complete with the usual “gotcha” telltales to ask if they can’t just get ChatGPT to write the code they want instead

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also can anyone remember where to find the huge long list of things reinforcement learning systems get horrifically, terrifyingly wrong that has the video clips of one trying to learn to walk by banging its head on the floor to push itself along? because we're rediscovering how hard reward design is

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wait is OpenAI on the verge of being in lawsuits with both Microsoft (sued by) AND Apple (suing) as well as being in court with Musk right now? huh

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