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Benjamin Hilton
@benjamin_hilton
Research Analyst @80000hours. Former civil servant. Semi-informed about economics, physics and governments. views my own
Aug 29, 2022 • 15 tweets • 10 min read
There are too few clear overviews of x-risk from AI.

So I tried to write a new one.

(@80000Hours’ previous article was from 2017!)

This was difficult - lots of articles on this are (imo) confused.

I (hopefully!) did things differently: 80000hours.org/problem-profil…

🧵⤵️ 1. I address lots of (I think) common misconceptions about AI risk

Many people - including me a year ago - have all sorts of objections to working on AI risk that I am no longer confident about
Jul 7, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
There's lots of talk about the UK's political and constitutional crisis.

But Boris Johnson's resignation after nearly 3 years in office is actually a huge win for the UK's weird, unwritten norms-based constitution - and will, I think, only serve to strengthen it.

Here's why: 1) Since 1900, here's why short-lived PMs resigned:

Douglas-Home (1 yr, 1 day): health concerns
Eden (1 yr, 279 days): Suez Crisis
Brown (2 yrs, 318 days): lost election
Chamberlain (2 yrs, 348 days): WW2
May (3 yrs, 11 days): Brexit
Callaghan (3 yrs, 29 days): lost election
May 31, 2022 • 17 tweets • 8 min read
No, DALL-E doesn’t have a secret language.

(or at least, we haven't found one yet)

This viral DALL-E thread has some pretty astounding claims. But maybe the reason they’re so astounding is that, for the most part, they're not true.

Thread 👇🧵 (1/15)

Let’s start with some of the basic claims.

1) @giannis_daras says "Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" means bugs or pests.

This just seems wrong.

Here's what I get if I put "Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" into DALL-E - lots of different animals.

(2/15)
May 25, 2022 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
There's a new competitor to DALL-E out there: Google's Imagen.

I don't have access to Imagen but I do have some of their example images. Let's do some side-by side comparisons.

(left is Imagen, right is DALL-E)

1. "A blue jay standing on a large basket of rainbow macarons." ImageImage 2. "A brain riding a rocketship heading towards the moon."

(again, left is Imagen, right is DALL-E) ImageImage
Apr 29, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
@holmesjtg Let's try it!

1) A sign that says "stop". Image @holmesjtg 2) A sign that says "beware of the dog" ImageImageImage
Apr 29, 2022 • 15 tweets • 9 min read
DALL-E is crazy impressive.

But I’m getting a feel for what it can and can’t do, and there are some quite noticeable limitations you won’t see on the curated publicised examples (including my own).

So, 8 limitations of DALL-E, a thread:

(also, have a #dalle koala doing magic) 1) It can take a lot of adjusting prompts to get something good.

e.g. This was actually generated with “A renaissance-style painting of a modern supermarket aisle. In the aisle is a crowd of shoppers with shopping trolleys trying to get reduced items.”