brianchristian.bsky.social
Researcher: @chai-berkeley.bsky.social PhD: @ox.ac.uk (@summerfieldlab.bsky.social) Author: The Alignment Problem, Algorithms to Live By (w. @cocoscilab.bsky.social), and The Most Human Human.
👤 Joined on 27 July 2023
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@brianchristian.bsky.social@bradknox.bsky.social, @brianchristian.bsky.social, and Serena Booth argue that a key cause of the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident was overlooked: ExploitGym’s overly simple evaluation metric was itself misaligned. They discuss techniques that could help avoid this in future. Link below ⬇️
Show PostThe NYT covers @brianchristian.bsky.social's recent COLM paper in their article on the effects of AI assistance on learning and motivation: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Show PostExcited that my paper on metacontrol in humans and neural networks with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social and @lhuntneuro.bsky.social is out in PNAS! We examine the way that predictive representations of control enable behavioral adaptation across settings, and pathologies: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Show Poste.g. see @brianchristian.bsky.social's hot-off-the-press thread about our latest preprint, showing that, unlike humans, large language models can literally step behind the veil of ignorance using self-calling: bsky.app/profile/bria...
Show PostThe lesson for all the students out there is that science is a community project. Most of us make individually small contributions to this project. Success is measured at the collective level. Many of our professional (and personal) dysfunctions could be fixed by more fully embracing this view.
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