And a different question: How young are you? Are there experienced people who have worked with you and can vouch for the quality of your work / strategic orientation / etc?
I’m 35. You can view my experience on my linkedin profile. I was working as a technologist at an automotive company, involved with some AI projects in collaboration with the Vector Institute. That’s when GPT-3 was released, prompting me to take the prosaic scaling hypothesis more seriously and change my plan to saving money so I could finish my CS BSc and change my career goal to working on technical AI alignment.
While completing my BSc I had the opportunity to focus on my NDSP project, first as a directed studies project supervised by George Tzanetakis, and then extend it into an honours project supervised by Teseo Schneider. George is a professor focused on classical AI and music algorithms. Teseo is a professor focused on graphics algorithms. They are probably the most relevant experienced people who have worked with me and could vouch for the quality of my work, but neither is focused on technical alignment so probably cannot vouch for my strategic orientation.
My project was mostly self driven, attempting to extend and apply the tools introduced in Visualizing Neural Networks with the Grand Tour to the same network that was examined in Understanding and controlling a maze-solving policy network as part of a long term plan to first build intuition for interactive n-dimensional tools while applying them to relatively easier to understand image networks, before applying them to relatively more difficult to understand transformer networks.
I have reached out to some of the authors of those papers and have had brief correspondences with Mingwei Li, TurnTrout, peligrietzer, and Ulisse Mini, but I’m unsure how deeply any of them have looked into my work.
And a different question: How young are you? Are there experienced people who have worked with you and can vouch for the quality of your work / strategic orientation / etc?
I’m 35. You can view my experience on my linkedin profile. I was working as a technologist at an automotive company, involved with some AI projects in collaboration with the Vector Institute. That’s when GPT-3 was released, prompting me to take the prosaic scaling hypothesis more seriously and change my plan to saving money so I could finish my CS BSc and change my career goal to working on technical AI alignment.
While completing my BSc I had the opportunity to focus on my NDSP project, first as a directed studies project supervised by George Tzanetakis, and then extend it into an honours project supervised by Teseo Schneider. George is a professor focused on classical AI and music algorithms. Teseo is a professor focused on graphics algorithms. They are probably the most relevant experienced people who have worked with me and could vouch for the quality of my work, but neither is focused on technical alignment so probably cannot vouch for my strategic orientation.
My project was mostly self driven, attempting to extend and apply the tools introduced in Visualizing Neural Networks with the Grand Tour to the same network that was examined in Understanding and controlling a maze-solving policy network as part of a long term plan to first build intuition for interactive n-dimensional tools while applying them to relatively easier to understand image networks, before applying them to relatively more difficult to understand transformer networks.
I have reached out to some of the authors of those papers and have had brief correspondences with Mingwei Li, TurnTrout, peligrietzer, and Ulisse Mini, but I’m unsure how deeply any of them have looked into my work.