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“MIRI’s May 2024 Newsletter” by Harlan


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MIRI updates:

  • MIRI is shutting down the Visible Thoughts Project.
    • We originally announced the project in November of 2021. At the time we were hoping we could build a new type of data set for training models to exhibit more of their inner workings. MIRI leadership is pessimistic about humanity's ability to solve the alignment problem in time, but this was an idea that seemed relatively promising to us, albeit still a longshot.
    • We also hoped that the $1+ million bounty on the project might attract someone who could build an organization to build the data set. Many of MIRI's ambitions are bottlenecked on executive capacity, and we hoped that we might find individuals (and/or a process) that could help us spin up more projects without requiring a large amount of oversight from MIRI leadership.
    • Neither hope played out, and in the intervening time [...]

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First published:

May 15th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vLBW5wMxvRLZwA4Wo/miri-s-may-2024-newsletter

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