Model Evaluation and Threat Research is an AI research charity that looks into the threat of AI agents! That sounds a bit AI doomsday cult, and they take funding from the AI doomsday cult organisat…
  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Paragraph 2:

    METR funded 16 experienced open-source developers with “moderate AI experience” to do what they do.

    • HedyL@awful.systemsEnglish
      28·
      19 days ago

      … and just a few paragraphs further down:

      The number of people tested in the study was n=16. That’s a small number. But it’s a lot better than the usual AI coding promotion, where n=1 ’cos it’s just one guy saying “I’m so much faster now, trust me bro. No, I didn’t measure it.”

      I wouldn’t call that “burying information”.