Leading research at @arcee_ai | Formerly Data Research Lead @DbrxMosaicAI | Visiting Researcher @meta | Ph.D | #TXSTFOOTBALL fan | linktr.ee/code_star

Joined August 2011
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I have a personal update to share. I have taken a new role as head of research at @arcee_ai . I have been constantly so impressed with the talent density, determination, and drive of the Arcee team and I am delighted to join forces to help shape and deliver their vision for open source frontier models. The fastest progress in AI happens in the open. When models are accessible, iteration compounds, and entirely new categories of products become possible. The decision to leave @datologyai was a difficult one. I still believe in their vision and incredibly talented group of people that have pushing the frontier of what is possible in data curation. I was personally motivated by being back directly involved in releasing and deploying models that people and companies use everyday to solve problems. This is what I love to do. BTW we are hiring. If you want to be part of a cracked small team making fantastic open weight American models dm me!
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I’m sorry … what?
By the way, public service announcement: if you're one of the numerous people posting about Anthropic's dystopian ways and you're thinking about getting Claude to help you write that post... don't! Another one of their terms is that you may not use Claude to do anything that "exposes [Anthropic to] reputational harms" 👇 And, if you do, under the - extremely unusual - clause 13 of their terms (anthropic.com/legal/consumer…), you have PRE-AGREED, by using Anthropic (and accepted their terms), that the harm you've done is irreparable, that you won't oppose Anthropic injunction, and they don't need to prove actual damage. They can simply go to a judge in a friendly jurisdiction (and of course, their terms precise that any dispute "will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco, California") and: a) file an injunction that shuts you down b) make you pay for everything since under section 11 of their terms you agree to indemnify Anthropic for "any and all liabilities, claims, damages, expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs), and other losses arising out of or related to your breach or alleged breach of these Terms." In other words, if you use Claude to help you talk shit about Anthropic publicly, their terms say you pay their lawyers to go after you and you've already pre-agreed you've lost the case. Oh, and cherry on the cake: in the odd case the judge were like "are you crazy, this is insanely abusive, you Anthropic are the ones at fault here," according to their terms Anthropic's maximum liability is... $100.
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31 Oct 2023
Like when there was an export control on computers above 1 GFLOPS and when the Sony PlayStation-2 came out in 2000, it was above the limit 😅 theregister.com/2000/04/17/p…
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One day we will have the equivalent of the gpu compute Azure has in an iPhone and this regulation will seem comical to our children.
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Replying to @teortaxesTex
Even when you are trained to understand it, it’s hard to translate those “predicted loss values” into model capabilities. Let’s say they knew the exact predicted loss they could get with a 10T model. That still tells them very little about the emergent new capabilities at a new scale. What’s more, each new scale brings brand new and unique post-training / mid training challenges.
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The good news is we can compress a whole century of humiliation into a year
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My shoggoth Claude My butlerian jihad My vulnerabilities fixed Gpt six!
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My team loves Claude from @AnthropicAI . But this new policy of retaining prompts and usage is a red line...we simply can't give over our usage. Prompts contain our IP; literally all our design files and docs. Why would this ever have been ok? It's sad because everyone was looking forward to using the new model. Sigh.
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Can’t wait for the next model class after Fable, Cautionary Tale.
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the US government blocked Fable 5. like I "pushed" my toddler who threw himself on the floor
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Japan is like “hold my beer”
Put hummus on a falafel and my Arab friend said 'he is dipping the mother in the child'
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> We have reviewed a report that we believe is the basis of the government's directive and validated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5) You asked to be regulated by people who don’t know the difference. You fucked around and found out.
Replying to @AndrewCurran_
This was all allegedly triggered by a Mythos jailbreak that was shared with the US Government. This is Anthropic's response: 'To date, the government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak, which essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix any software flaws. Our understanding is that one potential jailbreak was shared with the government. We have reviewed a report that we believe is the basis of the government's directive and validated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5), and is used every day by the defenders who keep systems safe. We will share more details over the next 24 hours.'
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When a renaissance arrives that has the power to change the world, it cannot live in a few rooms, behind a few switches, waiting on a few signatures. We must stay open enough for people to study it, challenge it, build on it, and carry it forward. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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I disagree with this decision and I don't like it. But also... HOW DID ANTHROPIC NOT SEE THIS COMING‽ It is *the* obvious response to "this is too dangerous for anyone except us to use", since that relies on a premise ("we are uniquely good") that almost no-one agrees with.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Jun 13
people in washington trying to figure out wth “pliny the liberator” is
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Not even much to say, I think the government way overstepped but we’ll see if they can substantiate the evidence (in which case Anthropic would tell us). Anthropic’s messaging was pushing government action, but this is insane and a bad action by USG for the AI trajectory.
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