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AI research covers academic papers, breakthroughs and findings from labs like DeepMind, Berkeley AI Research and Stanford HAI. This page aggregates the latest peer-reviewed and preprint AI science.
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Why Doesn’t My Model Work?
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world…
Deep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cells
The history of each living being is written in its genome, which is stored as DNA and present in nearly every…
Salmon in the Loop
One of the most fascinating problems that a computer scientist may be lucky enough to encounter is a complex…
Analyzing the Historical Rate of Catastrophes
To communicate risks, we often turn to stories. Nuclear weapons conjure stories of mutually assured…
Forecasting AI (Overview)
This is a landing page for various posts I’ve written, and plan to write, about forecasting future…
GPT-2030 and Catastrophic Drives: Four Vignettes
I previously discussed the capabilities we might expect from future AI systems, illustrated through GPT2030,…
Intrinsic Drives and Extrinsic Misuse: Two Intertwined Risks of AI
Given their advanced capabilities, future AI systems could pose significant risks to society. Some of this…
AI Pause Will Likely Backfire (Guest Post)
I'm experimenting with hosting guest posts on this blog, as a way to represent additional viewpoints and…
Neural algorithmic reasoning
In this article, we will talk about classical computation: the kind of computation typically found in an…
The Artificiality of Alignment
This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated…
AI Forecasting: Two Years In
Two years ago, I commissioned forecasts for state-of-the-art performance on several popular ML benchmarks.…
What will GPT-2030 look like?
GPT-4 surprised many people with its abilities at coding, creative brainstorming, letter-writing, and other…
Complex Systems are Hard to Control
The deployment of powerful deep learning systems such as ChatGPT raises the question of how to make these…
Principles for Productive Group Meetings
Note: This post is based on a Google document I created for my research group. It speaks in the first person,…
Emergent Deception and Emergent Optimization
[Note: this post was drafted before Sydney (the Bing chatbot) was released, but Sydney demonstrates some…