Amjad Masad is the co‑founder and CEO of Replit. Recently he has advocated slowing AI development to harden systems, discussed cybersecurity and rejected “extinction risk” as a realistic concern, and appeared in coverage of Replit’s acquisition of Test 13.
This is cool, but if your output domain is known in advance, why not just train a model to produce logprobs over enums? [Quoting @CompleteSkeptic]: After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent th…
The AI naming curse strikes again. “AI Safety” firm made AI unsafe. “Effective Altruists” are both ineffective and enabling criminal activity. “Irregular” is regularly incompetent. [Quoting @brianchau57]: BREAKING: A single Israeli Effective Altruism firm i…
https://t.co/OmEbT0zU6G [Quoting @brianchau57]: BREAKING: A single Israeli Effective Altruism firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta cyberattacks 🧵 with help from @lumpenspace https://t.co/hnDsJjBO9a
Not a bad idea to slow down to harden systems. Especially since we haven’t even discovered all the systems that agents hacked recently. [Quoting @DarioAmodei]: We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a…
Replit acquires a business entirely built on Replit. I expect first of many to come. [Quoting @ViktorThulin]: Test 13 is joining @Replit . 18 months ago, @gunnarkolbeins and I started Test 13 on a simple belief: AI is changing how software is made, and as a t…
Lots of risk with AI. I worry a lot about cybersecurity for example. However, “extinction risk” — literally 100% of humans die — is not remotely one of them. [Quoting @DavidSacks]: “I think they're having AI psychosis… I'm not sure they're dispassionate criti…
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