Codex in particular is very slick at inviting you to farm out lots of small tasks in parallel.

It's all very cool, but so far I'd only be comfortable with using it for very tiny, easily verifiable changes [I merged ~6/7 PRs of tiny fixes after about 5 mins work from me].

They're both asynchronous coding agents that spin up a VM to make changes, test them, commit them and create PRs. They discuss their changes, and show you nice diffs.

This means you can just use your phone if you like and code from ... anywhere.

open.substack.com/pub/selfsupe...

I find this kind of science very exciting because it's accessible to those who can't build the models themselves.

deepmind.google/discover/blo...

I cringe when I see headlines from OpenAI leaders about "colonizing the light cone". They will probably continue to get very rich from monthly subscriptions. But it's the science led orgs like Deepmind that will change the world.

But Deepmind have been steadily closing the gap on the models front and are just in a league of their own on extracting real tangible value in Science and Engineering.

Yes, OpenAI are better at product and leaped ahead with their LLMs. I still prefer using ChatGPT to the alternatives.

Fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing

Ok, thanks, recordings would definitely be appreciated. We're working on FM for Neonatal EEG so I'm interested to hear about other's experiences

Looks really cool. Any remote option?

This represents a significant milestone for the field with the first ever demonstration of human expert level performance on held out datasets.

First of many for CergenX with our friends in INFANT Research Centre.

Thanks to our co-authors Geraldine Boylan, Sean Griffin, Aurel Luca, Sean Mathieson, and Soraia Ventura.

Supported by Enterprise Ireland DTIF grant

😅 definitely part of it. But I think of it more a breakthrough in the crappy post training for prompting issue LLMs have. I wrote a bit more about it here if you're interested open.substack.com/pub/selfsupe...

"Our robots are safe, lightweight, and inexpensive - perfect for deploying novel AI algorithms, testing new capabilities among people, and collecting data at scale"

Sounds amazing. Target price point? Would love a hobby robot to train at home.

It's an interesting idea to be able to ingest a someones feed and have an LLM judgement of whether they meet some niche category of interest or personality type. Basically automated personal.

Interesting, but not sure only ever seeing thing you like is a wise goal. Worrying close to "things I agree with"