Can't wait to read this!

To say nothing of the fact that an LLM is a kind of model of "culture" in the abstract, and I don't know that we've ever had this accessible a way to feel out the vibe of a whole corpus. They're super interesting objects of study, but that doesn't feel worth destroying the economics of art

For me, it's always been about expanding both the range of things computers can do, and also who gets to specify how they behave. With LLMs, it feels like that's much more possible than before. There's so much room to build this kind of AI with actual consent, for purposes other than rent seeking.

Maybe we don't want agi if it isn't lucky 🤷‍♂️

I agree completely! Some of my work is actually focused on the dataset construction side of this, and I work with materials scientists that do similar (I think?) gaussian process work

It's been really frustrating to see how much this style of "hypothesis generation" work is in AI for science circles. I think there are good ways to use AI in materials science! But so much of the oxygen is taken up by end-to-end, speculative work :/

Between this, the louvre heist, and Charles and Camilla being welcomed to an event with it, what a great year to love dhoom 😍

Based on format alone, sign me up!

...who is this, though 🙈

This is such a neat idea! I wonder how the infrastructure of gating carries over to modalities that are less identity carrying - like, is there an equivalent of this for text? Is there an analogue of signing your input tokens with your private key?

I think it's even more exciting than this!! There's a bunch of stuff conveyed in _not_ text (i.e. diagrams/formulas etc as you point out), but also a lot of stuff contained in _not quite_ text —
formatting, layout, all sorts of fun visual pragmatics that do convey information and are important

👀 very excited to read anything that may come from this 👀

At least some part of this is happening independently! smokesignal.events/about

Fwiw, this is *very* neatly borne out in US military funding solicitations! Control theory really exercised a powerful conceptual hold for a long time

South Asia has plenty of love and use for mayonnaise, just mostly in street food instead of what is considered traditional!

Is Cluely...somehow ethical now?

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