Martin Lumiste

Back in 2018, OpenAI published a charter, which includes a self-sacrifice clause: We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions.

During the Industrial Revolution, machines displaced most Western agricultural workers, who later went on to cities and earned higher wages.

Writing this from paternity leave as a first time dad, as any self-respecting prospective parent, I did a bunch of anxiety-ridden last minute research into early childcare.

and a boy in my dormitory said if I develop the film in the right potion, the pictures’ll move

Update: Discussion on Hacker News I’ve been having quite a bit of fun with the fairly recent LivePortrait model, generating deepfakes of my friends for some cheap laughs.

Update: Discussion on Hacker News To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour William Blake Introduction Image and especially video compression is a problem of obvious real…

Machine learning is a field heavily tied to science.

Background After working for 5 years on ML projects at Bolt, I was asked by my manager (only somewhat seriously) to give a farewell presentation on how to increase one’s impact as an individual contributor (IC) in a large product organisation.

TL;DR LLM stochasticity poses a problem for evaluating whether new commits improve a project’s performance or not - the solution is to run a paired difference test on repeated measures of the same eval set for maximal statistical power.

This is a long overdue summary of our experience from the NeurIPS 2022 Traffic4cast (t4c22) competition.