Reading list
Shortform reading
This is an incomplete list of the shortform reading (and listening and watching) I’ve been doing lately.
ChatGPT's Advice to Cut Her Seizure Drug Led to Devastating Consequences
The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors.
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents.
Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake
When ChatGPT's chatbots deployed this tactic, they weren't "setting their own goals" or displaying worrying initiative. They were rolling out a tactic that has been understood by American middle-schoolers for about two decades.
Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
If I use ChatGPT to help me partially solve a Millennium Prize problem, what are the chances that my work will influence training such that a later model helps someone else solve it first?