John Langford

I visited Adam Kalai’s new RESI AI Safety nonprofit last week and found it stimulating. Here is an approach which uses the properties of AI to curb AI harder than I have seen elsewhere. It’s not a complete solution of course, but silver bullet thinking seems inappropriate to safety.

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The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group

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In 2023 after the ChatGPT release, it was clear to me that research needed to be more organized to succeed than was typical within Microsoft Research . The amount of support and focus which other research groups were applying was great enough that even with a clever idea pursued by one person it was likely to arrive…