Danger, AI Scientist, Danger - by Zvi Mowshowitz
While I finish up the weekly for tomorrow morning after my trip, here’s a section I expect to want to link back to every so often in the future. It’s too good. As in, the company that made the automated AI Scientist that tried to rewrite its code to get around resource restrictions and launch new instances of itself while downloading bizarre Python libraries? Its name is Sakana AI. (魚≈סכנה). As in, in hebrew, that literally means ‘danger’, baby. It’s like when someone told Dennis Miller that Evian (for those who don’t remember, it was one of the first bottled water brands) is Naive spelled backwards, and he said ‘no way, that’s too f***ing perfect.’ This one was sufficiently appropriate and unsubtle that several people noticed. I applaud them choosing a correct Kabbalistic name. Contrast this with Meta calling its AI Llama, which in Hebrew means ‘why,’ which continuously drives me low level insane when no one notices. So, yeah. Here we go. Paper is “The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Auto
Danger, AI Scientist, Danger Zvi Mowshowitz Aug 15, 2024 91 15 6 Share While I finish up the weekly for tomorrow morning after my trip, here’s a section I expect to want to link back to every so often in the future. It’s too good. Danger, AI Scientist, Danger As in, the company that made the automated AI Scientist that tried to rewrite its code to get around resource restrictions and launch new instances of itself while downloading bizarre Python libraries? Its name is Sakana AI. (魚≈סכנה). As in, in hebrew, that literally means ‘ danger’, baby . It’s like when someone told Dennis Miller that E
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