Ben Cottier

Karma: 330

At Epoch, helping to clarify when and how transformative AI capabilities will be developed.

Previously a Research Fellow on the AI Governance & Strategy team at Rethink Priorities.

Announcing Epoch’s newly expanded Parameters, Compute and Data Trends in Machine Learning database

Robi Rahman, Jaime Sevilla Molina, Tamay, Ege Erdil, Pablo Villalobos, Ben Cottier and Matthew Barnett

25 Oct 2023 2:55 UTC

18 points

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(epochai.org)

Trends in the dollar training cost of machine learning systems

Ben Cottier1 Feb 2023 14:48 UTC

23 points

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(epochai.org)

Conclusion and Bibliography for “Understanding the diffusion of large language models”

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:46 UTC

4 points

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Questions for further investigation of AI diffusion

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:46 UTC

4 points

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Implications of large language model diffusion for AI governance

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:45 UTC

7 points

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Publication decisions for large language models, and their impacts

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:44 UTC

4 points

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Drivers of large language model diffusion: incremental research, publicity, and cascades

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:44 UTC

4 points

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The replication and emulation of GPT-3

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:40 UTC

4 points

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GPT-3-like models are now much easier to access and deploy than to develop

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:39 UTC

12 points

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Background for “Understanding the diffusion of large language models”

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:38 UTC

4 points

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Understanding the diffusion of large language models: summary

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:37 UTC

26 points

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Modeling Failure Modes of High-Level Machine Intelligence

Ben Cottier, Daniel_Eth and Sammy Martin

6 Dec 2021 13:54 UTC

54 points

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Modeling the impact of safety agendas

Ben Cottier5 Nov 2021 19:46 UTC

51 points

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Modeling Risks From Learned Optimization

Ben Cottier12 Oct 2021 20:54 UTC

45 points

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[Question] Do mesa-optimizer risk arguments rely on the train-test paradigm?

Ben Cottier10 Sep 2020 15:36 UTC

12 points

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Ben Cottier’s Shortform

Ben Cottier12 May 2020 11:03 UTC

2 points

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Clarifying some key hypotheses in AI alignment

Ben Cottier and Rohin Shah

15 Aug 2019 21:29 UTC

79 points

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