📰 The Gradient

Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct th

LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonn

Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes c

The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the public’s imagination in 2023. Transformational consumer produc

Exploring the utility of large language models in autonomous driving: Can they be trusted for self-driving cars, and what are the key challenges?

In this article, we will talk about classical computation : the kind of computation typically found in an undergraduate Computer Science course on Algorithms an

This essay first appeared in Reboot . Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have