Andrey Kurenkov

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Former CS PhD focused on learning robot manipulation at the Stanford AI lab, current ML Engineer at a gen AI startup

Co-founder of Skynet Today and The Gradient 📝 fan of fun, Russian, he/him

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Lately, if there is one paper I hope more people take note of, it's "Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI" from DeepMind. Would make discussions about AGI would a lot more productive if it was done with these sorts of definitions.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462
Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI

We propose a framework for classifying the capabilities and behavior of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) models and their precursors. This framework introduces levels of AGI performance, generality, and autonomy, providing a common language to compare models, assess risks, and measure progress along the path to AGI. To develop our framework, we analyze existing definitions of AGI, and distill six principles that a useful ontology for AGI should satisfy. With these principles in mind, we propose "Levels of AGI" based on depth (performance) and breadth (generality) of capabilities, and reflect on how current systems fit into this ontology. We discuss the challenging requirements for future benchmarks that quantify the behavior and capabilities of AGI models against these levels. Finally, we discuss how these levels of AGI interact with deployment considerations such as autonomy and risk, and emphasize the importance of carefully selecting Human-AI Interaction paradigms for responsible and safe deployment of highly capable AI systems.

arXiv.org
Lots of literature on #ChatGPT at this Japanese bookstore, lol

Flying back from Hawaii to Bay Area today 😭

Was such a pleasure to attend one last conference to present the last publication of my PhD journey.

Anyone else attend and enjoy the conf?

Yeah sex is cool but have you ever cleared out your inbox after having lingering emails there for months?

I am really curious about enumerating the set of possible approaches by which AGI could cause human extinction.

Here's what I got so far, am I missing any?

ve had a bunch of TODOs to deal with but have been doing almost none of them, taking a break prior to starting work later this month.

Yay for properly taking a vacation!

You got to give it to the 6 month pause open letter, it has certainly garnered a lot of media coverage.

I am subscribed to digests for the keyword AI on Google news, and I have rarely seen so much news about a single event come out all at once.

Pretty annoying Musk is almost always in the headlines, though Vox's " AI leaders (and Elon Musk) urge all labs to press pause on powerful AI" is kind of funny :P

Apparently i'm an #AI influencer? lol

Well this is exciting - GIGAGAN!

From "Scaling up GANs for Text-to-Image Synthesis" - "We introduce GigaGAN, a new GAN architecture that far exceeds this limit, demonstrating GANs as a viable option for text-to-image synthesis."

https://mingukkang.github.io/GigaGAN/Image

Pretty hefty number of tricks involved, so not as simple as Parti's just-scale-up approach. But increased generation speed, high res outputs, and embedding manipulation are all quite cool.

Wonder if RNNs might one day get this treatment...

Have been looking through a bunch of #aiart I made last year. Here's some of my favorites!