The AI Canvas Newsletter #8

local-ai-stack

“A starter kit to build local-only AI apps that cost $0 to run -- starting with document Q&A. Written in Javascript”

Dario Amodei’s prepared remarks from the AI Safety Summit on Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy – Antropic

“The most important thing to understand about AI is how quickly it is moving. A few years ago, AI systems could barely string together a coherent sentence. Today they can pass medical exams, write poetry, and tell jokes. This rapid progress is ultimately driven by the amount of available computation, which is growing by 8x per year and is unlikely to slow down in the next few years”

Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach To AI Transparency

“We identify and characterize the emerging area of representation engineering (RepE), an approach to enhancing the transparency of AI systems that draws on insights from cognitive neuroscience. RepE places representations, rather than neurons or circuits, at the center of analysis, equipping us with novel methods for monitoring and manipulating high-level cognitive phenomena in deep neural networks (DNNs). We provide baselines and an initial analysis of RepE techniques, showing that they offer simple yet effective solutions for improving our understanding and control of large language models. We showcase how these methods can provide traction on a wide range of safety-relevant problems, including honesty, harmlessness, power-seeking, and more, demonstrating the promise of top-down transparency research. We hope that this work catalyzes further exploration of RepE and fosters advancements in the transparency and safety of AI systems.”

Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, Superhuman Alignment, New Architectures – Dwarkesh Patel

“I had a lot of fun chatting with Shane Legg - Founder & Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind!"

YouGov AI Survey Results

YouGov recently released the results of a survey containing the opinions of 2086 adults in the UK on AI.

Ai.gov

“AI is one of the most powerful technologies of our time. President Biden has been clear that we must take bold action to harness the benefits and mitigate the risks of AI. The Biden-Harris Administration has acted decisively to protect safety and rights in the age of AI, so that everyone can benefit from the promise of AI.”

Unprecedented £225m investment to create UK's most powerful supercomputer in Bristol

“The funding injection, part of a £300m package to create a new national Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (AIRR) for the country announced at the government's AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, will make the UK a world leader in AI.”

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