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Multiple readings character.ai Policy & governance · 6 attributable reactions Multiple readings GitHub - openai/math Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions Reaction converging arXiv.org e-Print archive Research & technical analysis · 6 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Signal 20h ago
⚡ 3269 h early

character.ai

10 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · tachikoma
“should the character.ai branch be dead?” evidence ↗
10 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood 404 Media Ethan Zuckerman Ed Zitron Scott McGrath Alex Hern Colin tachikoma +2
2 experts discussed this · 12 posts
thebes: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
Grace: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
thebes: i think it's too late for the period i was focused on (i carried the branches to the modern day but only if they started in the period in question)
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Established Models & releases Development 16d ago
⚡ 3 h early
OpenAI angers mathematicians again

GitHub - openai/math

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Mark Riedl
“OpenAI is working on at least 722 (so far) math manuscripts, all on GitHub in various stages of verificantion github.com/openai/math Why? I guess because they can?” evidence ↗
11 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Kyle Cranmer Tim Kellogg Gilles Louppe Dashiell Alejandra Caraballo Samuel Vaiter +3
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Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Link: github.com/openai/math P.S.1: This reminds me of the Chinese room argument, though only indirectly. P.S.2: I imagine a few people at OpenAI have looked at the results. Also maybe some other people have looked at some papers since ~1h ago. These are o(…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“OpenAI is working on at least 722 (so far) math manuscripts, all on GitHub in various stages of verificantion github.com/openai/math Why? I guess because they can?”

Context & explanation

1 expert

Background, chronology and why it matters.

“Oh my god, OpenAI just made the single largest advancement in mathematics and number theory in modern history. They released a quasi reimann hypothesis. This is just one of 722 proofs and advancements they released all at once. github.com/openai/math”

3 experts discussed this · 27 posts
Dashiell: I don't think there's a world where mathematicians aren't pissed about this. 1. Dumping everything is what the advisory group said 2. Just yesterday people were mad that Ant paid two experts to dig…
Naomi Saphra: I think (2) is actually good. It is weird, and makes mathematicians into some kind of benchmark evaluation annotator which they don’t like, but it’s just a hard time to be a mathematician. Destroyi…
Naomi Saphra: One big consequence here is you can’t use the duration of an open problem as a sign of difficulty/importance. But at least right now, there’s no way to develop interesting open problems through RLV…
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Established AI field signal Resource 12d ago
⚡ 87 h early
arxiv preprint archive resource

arXiv.org e-Print archive

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Zachary Lipton
“Just me or does @ChatGPT search the most random websites no matter the query? If I ask for the best bagel, it will “Searching ” + {https://t.co/vEQ6I1WmCF, https://t.co/5JR1Db9NqB, …}” evidence ↗
8 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Zachary Lipton Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Ramon Astudillo Alison Gopnik Ben Schmidt Mandana Samiei Federico Pianzola
How the network is reacting 5 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

5 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“arxiv.org, doi.org, biorxiv.org, medrxiv.org, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, nature.com, science.org, pnas.org, semanticscholar.org, openreview.net”

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“Just me or does @ChatGPT search the most random websites no matter the query? If I ask for the best bagel, it will “Searching ” + {https://t.co/vEQ6I1WmCF, https://t.co/5JR1Db9NqB, …}”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Ted Underwood: I just eliminated 22 tabs by doing this: osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to get URL of every tab of front window' | tr ',' '\n' | grep arxiv.org list of urls -> LLM -> annotated read…
Ted Underwood: did I come up with that idea by myself? no I did not
Karandeep Singh: Any suggestions for the other 478 tabs?
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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

ssrn.com

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Nina Beguš
“What should cultural analytics do about genAI? We address the infrastructural force of narratives within AI corporatization, argue for constitutive humanism against a purely decorative stance, and suggest methods to examine the function of narratives within…” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Nina Beguš

“What should cultural analytics do about genAI? We address the infrastructural force of narratives within AI corporatization, argue for constitutive humanism against a purely decorative stance, and suggest methods to examine the function of narratives within…”

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Established AI research Signal 16d ago
⚡ 23 h early

Research Scientist – World Modeling

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Eugene Vinitsky
“I'm hiring for our interpretable world modeling effort at Percepta! The core question: how can we make an agent build a simulator, understand a company, and then design a policy, all from unstructured data? Come work with me and our amazing team. jobs.ashby…” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood

“I'm hiring for our interpretable world modeling effort at Percepta! The core question: how can we make an agent build a simulator, understand a company, and then design a policy, all from unstructured data? Come work with me and our amazing team. jobs.ashby…”

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9 experts · 63 posts · 13d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Cat Hicks Chelsea Parlett critical slop studies Adam L Mary Branscombe Amy Hoy
Matches Questions & unknowns
“what tone? you full-on assumed i disagreed with you even tho what i wrote obviously agreed with you. i wasn’t bitchy at all, but you sure were, “reacquaint yourself” lmao” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Markets & investment · 4 Research & technical analysis · 1
Cat Hicks: "why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often har…
Cat Hicks: because tasks gate other tasks. Because measuring the hours saved by washing machines is a relatively useful index for quality of life improvement. Because the time it takes for you to get from the…
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8 experts · 30 posts · 7d ago
Ted Underwood jake Colin tweety fish René Walter Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop
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“I'm not sure I understand the question. At each step, the model is given the full context up to that step and then produces one word. I think that is clear from the prompt though, no?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: Frankenmodel refuses to believe it's not just Claude
Colin: I don't think if you put 6 people in a circle and asked them to tell a story one word at a time they would, together, spontaneously create a story which denies that they are indeed six individuals
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6 experts · 14 posts · 17d ago
Ted Underwood David Marx critical slop studies rev. howard arson tweety fish Arseny Khakhalin
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“Has anyone told him about the humans who don’t feel pain?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
rev. howard arson: it is really fascinating how LLMs make virtually everyone say things which are enormously controversial as though they are solved problems
critical slop studies: Has anyone told him about the humans who don’t feel pain?
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3 experts · 35 posts · 9d ago
Ted Underwood Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Mary Branscombe
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“why not just... regular worm? there's so many unpatched devices on the public internet” evidence ↗
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): cpu is dogshit slow for inference, and self-replicating worms already exist (you may know them as rVPNs or botnets) alas they're just repackaging an existing problem as "you should be afraid of eve…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I will eat my hat if a smart tv can host enough inference to devise *new* attacks rather than just exploit the same existing attacks and just happen to bring along an additional giant multi-gigabyt…
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