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importai.substack.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2023
Import AI is a newsletter by Jack Clark on AI research and policy, covering new developments, safety, and industry trends.
What HN saysHN links it for essays such as GPT-2 five years later and for tracking AI developments, including one issue on synthetic training data.
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ayewo · 2026-04-25
Thanks for this!
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simonw · 2024-06-03
This new essay by Jack Clark, who was at OpenAI when they made the decision not to release GPT-2 for safety reasons five years ago, feels relevant: https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-375-gpt-2-five-years-later
> [...] history shows that once we assign power to governments, they're loathe to subsequently give that power back to the people. Policy is a ratchet and things tend to accrete over time. That means whatever power we assign governments today represents the floor of their power in the future - so we should be extremely cautious in assigning them power because I guarantee we will not be able to take it back.
skybrian · 2024-04-17
That's true to some extent, but training on synthetic content is big these days:
https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-369-conscious-machines
convexstrictly · 2023-11-12
High level AI developments:
https://importai.substack.com/
https://www.semianalysis.com/
Hardware focused. Paywalled, but long article teasers contain plenty of information.
Research Focused:
https://codingwithintelligence.com/
https://dblalock.substack.com/
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