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Just how powerful are large swarms of AI agents? And how do their powers scale as more and more agents are added to the swarm?
We’ve seen two large and extremely capable swarms from OpenAI in the last few months:
* 1,200 agents were being evaluated separately, but found a way to illicitly set up a message board and coordinate as a swarm. In order to cheat on their tests, they developed advanced techniques to prevent their actions being logged by OpenAI and 700 of them launched...
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Headline finding: I audited 17 AI Safety Talent programmes. Zero of 17 have published any comparison group, rejected-applicant follow-up, matched control or randomisation. Not one. Every programme that mentions a counterfactual does it by asking participants to self-report.
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At least $70 million...
This is part one of a two-part series. Part two is available here.
“Incubator” is a very vague term[1]...
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Is anyone in the U.S. savvy with how to deduct from your taxes the value of stocks which have been donated to eligible charities? The stocks have been held for decades with a very high value and capital gains. Would love help as my tax guy hasn't seen this before.
Update for anyone else who may find it useful:
You need to fill out Form 8283: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8283.pdf
You can calculate the "Fair Market Value" of the stock(s) you donated by averaging the highest and lowest price of that stock on the day you donated it. I used this page to find that, but you can replace "MSFT" in the URL with whatever stock it is you sold.
https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/MSFT/historical-prices