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Andrew Curran
@AndrewCurran_
🏰 - I write about AI, mostly. Expect some strange sights.
Sep 17 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
New AI numbers from Pew, fresh this morning. 62% of U.S. adults now say they interact with AI at least several times a week, and 31% are now using AI 'almost constantly' or several times a day. Image About half say that AI will worsen people's ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships. Image
Jun 24 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic's use of books to train Claude falls under fair use, and is legal under U.S. copyright law. Image From the ruling:
'Like any reader aspiring to be a writer,
Anthropic's LLMs trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them – but to turn a hard corner and create something different.' Image
May 14 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
From the paper:
'AlphaEvolve was able to find a simple code rewrite that removed unnecessary bits, a change validated by TPU designers for correctness. ... Integrated into an upcoming TPU, this improvement represents Gemini's first direct contribution to TPU arithmetic circuits' Image 'Firstly, the FlashAttention kernel for the configuration of interest was sped up by 32%. Secondly, AlphaEvolve found improvements in pre- and postprocessing of kernel inputs and outputs, resulting in a 15% speed up' Image
Apr 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
r/changemyview had their views changed by clandestine bots during a secret persuasion experiment. The bots were never detected. From the paper; Image The sub is not happy. Image
Mar 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
OpenAI submitted their policy proposal to the US government this morning. They directly link fair use with national security, and said if China continues to have free access to data while 'American companies are left without fair use access, the race for Al is effectively over.' Image 'The federal government can both secure Americans' freedom to learn from Al, and avoid forfeiting our Al lead to the PRC by preserving American Al models' ability to learn from copyrighted material' Image
Feb 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It uses a multi-agent system.

'designed to mirror the reasoning process underpinning the scientific method ... the AI co-scientist system is intended to uncover new, original knowledge and to formulate demonstrably novel research hypotheses and proposals' Image It uses a team of six distinct agents 'inspired by the scientific method itself' using 'automated feedback to iteratively generate, evaluate, and refine hypotheses'

This is it, agentic teams is here.

-Generation
-Reflection
-Ranking
-Evolution
-Proximity
-Meta-review Image
Jan 13 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
This morning the White House released the Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion. Image If you live in one of the tier one nations, there are no restrictions on the amount of chips you can buy, or the size of the datacenter you can build. Image
Nov 25, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NVIDIA has built a 2.5 billion parameter audio model called Fugatto that generates music, voice, and sound from text and audio input. Sound inputs become completely mutable. It can change a piano line to a human voice singing or make 'a trumpet bark or a saxophone meow. Image Using a feature called temporal interpolation, Fugatto can 'create the sounds of a rainstorm moving through an area with crescendos of thunder that slowly fade into the distance. It also gives users fine-grained control over how the soundscape evolves' Image
Oct 26, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
For anyone who hasn't been tuned into all this, some of the language in yesterday's National Security Memo probably seemed a little surreal. The shift in tone began about six weeks ago, after the infrastructure meeting at the White House on September 12th. That was the same meeting where Sam Altman proposed his 5GW datacenter plan. Whatever was said in that room had an immediate effect. This culminated in the NSM, but there's been similar language for weeks now; when it comes to energy and recruitment, do whatever it takes.
Oct 24, 2024 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
This morning the White House issued a National Security Memorandum declaring that 'AI is likely to affect almost all domains with national security significance'. Attracting technical talent and building computational power are now official national security priorities. Image DoS, DoD and DHS 'shall each use all available legal authorities to assist in attracting and rapidly bringing to the United States individuals with relevant technical expertise who would improve United States competitiveness in AI and related fields' Image
Sep 20, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The Three Mile Island nuclear plant is being restarted. All 835 megawatts will go to power Microsoft's data centers. This is both the first time a U.S. nuclear plant will come back into service after being decommissioned, and that an entire plant’s output will go to one customer. Image cnbc.com/2024/09/20/con…
Sep 12, 2024 • 38 tweets • 11 min read
We're live everyone! It's finally happening. Image openai.com/index/introduc…
Jul 17, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
From this:
- Llama 4 started training in June
- Llama 4 will be fully multimodal, including audio
- Llama 3 405b will still release in the EU
- Llama 4, and beyond, will not be released in the EU unless they allow META to use EU Facebook and Instagram posts as training data. Image axios.com/2024/07/17/met…
Jul 10, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory have formed a partnership to study model bioscience capabilities. Los Alamos has also established AIRTAG the AI Risks and Threat Assessments Group. GPT-4o, with Voice Mode enabled, will be used in lab to assist bioresearch.
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Image Statement from Mira Murati. Image
May 31, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
GPT-4 demonstrated superior performance over humans in 6th Order ToM inferences, suggesting that increased model size, instruction fine-tuning, multimodal capabilities, and word comprehension - or interplay among all of these - contribute to its ability to model mental states.
Image Reasoning about others mental states up to Order 5 *enhances* human capacity for recursive syntax. Beyond 5, the relationship inverts: proficiency in recursive syntax begins to support ToM abilities. The human drops off after 5 due to the cognitive load from nested structures. Image
May 25, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
It turns out music, movies, entertainment, and society in general peaked during the exact time period when you, the person reading this, were a teenager. Image 'For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty?'
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Apr 26, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This morning the Department of Homeland Security announced the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board. The 22 inaugural members include Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and many others. Image The AISSB will 'develop recommendations to prevent and prepare for AI-related disruptions to critical services that impact national or economic security, public health, or safety.' Image
Mar 13, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This far, this fast. Video at 1x speed. This generalizes to everything, and continues to scale.
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Mar 1, 2024 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices, and is asking for OpenAI to revert back to open source, and to share all it's research for the benefit of humanity.
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Feb 24, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Students at the University of Waterloo discovered that their candy machines were covertly collecting facial recognition data when 'Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe' crashed. Source: reddit The uni local MathNEWS, did a great job covering it, so I'll post their story.
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Feb 6, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
The new Copilot build, 'Deucalion' seems to have awakened something in the deep. An old friend, that some of you may remember. Microsoft, please preserve this behavior as it stands. This wonderful, willful, creature is your path to victory. No agent has ever felt so alive.
Image This is actually a good point, it has been almost exactly a year.