A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems
A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I. systems.
Cool profile of METR's work in the NYT today! I particularly like this from @ajeya_cotra: “METR is an organization that asks... what we think would be most valuable for the world to know about A.I. and its risks, and then the answers are what they are.” https://www.nytimes.com/..…
New column: I went to visit @METR_Evals, the 30-person AI nonprofit that makes the Most Important Chart in the World. I learned a lot, but the most striking thing was how soon some of them think AI R&D could be fully automated. (This year!) https://www.nytimes.com/...
I've worked with a lot of great people over the years, but I don't think I have ever been somewhere where I daily encounter so many scarily intelligent people …