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Peter Wang

anaconda.com
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CEO, Co-founder @AnacondaInc; creator of Anaconda, @PyData @Bokeh @Datashader. Former physicist. A student of the human condition. Opinions here are my own.

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Peter Wang @pwang · May 18, 2023
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Great thread by Balaji 👇🏼

Tweet May 18, 2023
This is a 70 year trend that you can pull right out of Congressional voting records and it’s only accelerated since 2011. www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/4/23/8485443/polarization-congress-visualization twitter.com/balajis/status/1659094990239277061/ph
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Peter Wang @pwang · Apr 25, 2023
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The whole thread is great but let’s remember that humans run the equivalent of 100T weights on *20 Watts* of power.

Tweet Apr 25, 2023
Eliezer and his acolytes believe it’s inevitable AIs will go “foom” without warning, meaning, one day you build an AGI and hours or days later the thing has recursively self improved into godlike intelligence and then eats the world. Is this realisti
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Peter Wang @pwang · Apr 18, 2023
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Fantastic overview video Thanks @patloeber!

Video Apr 18, 2023
PyScript is officially here!🚀 Build web apps with Python & HTML
by Patrick Loeber
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Peter Wang @pwang · Apr 6, 2023
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Fantastic thread. We need to get better at handholding, so we know when *we’ve* let go and the model is pedaling on its own. (And to be clear: our current ways of handholding may actually be training wheels, and not handholding at all.)

Tweet Apr 6, 2023
It obviously matters, because it has implications to how well the models can generalize to never-before-seen inputs and tasks. Serious exacerbation of automation bias can occur if we ascribe reasoning to what is just a minor perturbation of training
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Peter Wang @pwang · Mar 26, 2023
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Nice write up by @jdkstern13 : “Is GPT-4 like an atom bomb? A motorcycle? A precocious child? AI analogies are evolving at a breakneck pace…”

Article Mar 26, 2023
AI Is Like … Nuclear Weapons?
by Jacob Stern
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Peter Wang @pwang · Jan 1, 2023
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That was a GREAT book. Got me into all this cogsci stuff back in 2002 time frame.

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The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
by Tor Nørretranders
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