Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement.

This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.

Podcast #19

The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.

A moderate's view on the trajectory of AI.

How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.

I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…

The case for why self-improvement is real but it doesn't lead to fast takeoff.

We’re <5 years into a compounding revolution which could take a century, and how the AI industry should manage this.

The open model ecosystem continues to expand in its breadth

Nvidia wants you building your own model, not buying from Anthropic/OpenAI.

Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.

This is a quick, fun video on why we've been using these creatures through all of our thumbnails! The Shoggoths are core to how post-training was discussed, as RLHF and everything that followed sort…

Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.

Musings on model alignment, what determines safety, and where we go from here.

The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI When AI Goes Rogue. The Incident That Changed Everything. An OpenAI evaluation agent…

The last lecture was one I was most excited about, an introduction to character training -- the methods for crafting a model's personality. This topic is so crucial for how humans engage with the…

In this lecture I walk you through different evaluation eras, from prompting GPT-3 as elaborate autocomplete to today's complex agentic sandboxes. This lecture is a birds eye view of how evaluation…

In this Q&A I answer 6 questions and post-training recipes, how to think about trade-offs, and how the different loss functions work. Definitely a jam-packed and bit random, but fun nonetheless!…