A daily routine I do for my AI safety research work

post by scasper · 2022-07-19T21:58:24.511Z · LW · GW · 7 comments

I’m a Ph.D student at MIT working in AI safety--mostly interpretability in deep networks. I thought I would very briefly share a list of links that I have bookmarked and go through every weekday. It usually takes me <15 minutes. Since I started doing this, I’ve been much more up to date and informed on current work. 

First is Twitter. For a long time, I resisted using Twitter because it’s terrible. But after I started following almost exclusively AI safety people and orgs, I’ve found a lot of good papers and ideas. 

Second, I check LessWrong and the AI Alignment Forum :) 

Finally, I look over new titles on arXiv for AIMLComputation and Language, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. More often than not, I find a new paper that I want to click on and check out. 

And as a bonus, I’d of course also recommend these three newsletters

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comment by ThomasW (ThomasWoodside) · 2022-07-19T23:19:40.626Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I made this link which redirects to all arxiv pages from the last day on AI, ML, Computation and Language, Computer Vision, and Computers and Society into a single view. Since some papers are listed under multiple areas I prefer to view this so I don't skim over the same paper twice. If you bookmark it's just one click per day!

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comment by DavidHolmes · 2022-07-20T09:04:17.253Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

If you get the daily arXiv email feeds for multiple areas it automatically removes duplicates (i.e. each paper appears exactly once, regardless of cross-listing). The email is not to everyone's taste of course, but this is a nice aspect of it.

comment by scasper · 2022-07-19T23:31:13.456Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I'll use this from now on. 

comment by Hoagy · 2022-07-19T22:18:57.839Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Are there any Twitter lists you'd recommend for high % of good AI (safety) content?

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comment by Aay17ush · 2022-07-20T09:38:41.348Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/lists/1185207859728076800 AGI Safety core by JJ (From AI Safety Support)

comment by scasper · 2022-07-19T22:22:20.613Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Feel free to skim through the users I follow at https://twitter.com/StephenLCasper 

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comment by Hoagy · 2022-07-19T22:23:25.592Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Thanks!