Experiments...
To view in a web browser: https://buttondown.com/eho/archive/experiments First, a quick foray into "endless credits" and Fable 5 before I dive into my first...
Collective Defense
Thanks Phillip, for alerting me to the recent "collective defense" initiative led by OpenAI and signed by, well, just about everyone who matters. A call for...
Open vs. Closed Weights
I saw yet another article (link unnecessary) where Chinese labs (Z.AI in this case) criticize American frontier labs' use of closed weight models as...
DPO and Agent Alignment
I was reconstructing my list of "seminal AI papers" which I fumbled and lost when I exited the corporate firewall. Turns out you can't share an Edge...
Alignment and Reward Hacking (OpenAI/HuggingFace)
I couldn't help myself, during my "weekly AI reading", links for the METR and OpenAI reports on this incident appeared in my feed. So, I read them almost in...
The Genie Problem
Raghavan and Shneier wrote an article in IEEE Spectrum about how we have created genies. AI Agent Benchmarks Need to Measure User Intent - IEEE Spectrum I’m...
AI Inference Server Bring-Up
Our return from our annual “local vacation” was greeted by a Category 1 hurricane, which delayed the bring-up of the new inference server by a few days. We...
3060 eGPU setup
A short one today due to being on a real “away from home” vacation. I finally set up the 3060 in the Sonnet eGPU enclosure. This is an enclosure with power...
Local AI inference build
As I was preparing to leave the enterprise Github Copilot unlimited token all-you-can-eat buffet, I started to put a keen eye on token usage. In the early...
Perception
It’s probably clear from the previous posting on “holding it wrong” that I hadn’t seen the Microsoft Security announcement around MAI-Flash-1-Cyber...
They're holding it wrong...
Recently, the “magnificent 7”, led by nVidia sent a confusing set of missives one right after another. The first one discussed how we should fight...
EHO calling in...
I will write occasional thoughts here, mostly on AI and specifically AI safety/security, but the topic list is only limited by imagination and aversion to...