All episodes of Alignment Newsletter Podcast

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Published 05/05/21

Analyzing generalization across more axes than just accuracy or loss

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Published 04/28/21

An overview of the interpretability landscape

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Published 04/21/21

Plausible stories of how we might fail to avert an existential catastrophe

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Published 04/14/21

Our three year anniversary!

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Published 04/07/21

How language models can also be finetuned for non-language tasks

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Published 04/02/21

How to make embedded agents that reason probabilistically about their environments

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Published 03/24/21

The quest to understand a network well enough to reimplement it by hand

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Published 03/17/21

The case for practicing alignment work on GPT-3 and other large models

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Published 03/10/21

Theoretical models that predict scaling laws

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Published 03/04/21

How the simplicity of reality explains the success of neural nets

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Published 02/24/21

Why AI governance should find problems rather than just solving them

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Published 02/17/21

Quantifying the benefits of pretraining on downstream task performance

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Published 02/10/21

How well will GPT-N perform on downstream tasks?

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Published 02/03/21

Five properties of goal-directed systems

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Published 01/27/21

Underspecification as a cause of fragility to distribution shift

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Published 01/21/21

Building machines that can cooperate (with humans, institutions, or other machines)

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Published 01/13/21

Complex and subtly incorrect arguments as an obstacle to debate

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Published 01/06/21

Formalizing the argument of ignored attributes in a utility function

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Published 12/31/20

A new AI x-risk podcast, and reviews of the field

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Published 12/24/20

Explaining double descent by measuring bias and variance

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Published 12/17/20

Prioritizing research on AI existential safety based on its application to governance demands

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