About Samuel Albanie

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AI research.

Note that opinions expressed are my own. However, for conflict of interest purposes, please note that I'm employed by Google DeepMind (GDM). This almost certainly biases my judgment to some degree. I think GDM is pretty great.

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- misc/outdoor stuff channel: https://www.youtube.com/@samuelalbaniemisc
- https://x.com/SamuelAlbanie
- https://bsky.app/profile/samuelalbanie.bsky.social

FAQ:
Software used to make videos
- keynote on mac (to make slides)
- Adobe Premiere Pro for editing

Gemini 1.5 Pro has a massive context window

Google DeepMind recently released a report on Gemini 1.5 Pro. Perhaps the most significant advance over Gemini 1.0 is the context window, which can now span up to 10 million tokens of text. Timestamps: 00:00 - Gemini 1.5 Pro has a massive context window 00:48 - Needle-in-haystack analysis 03:40 -…

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Challenges with unsupervised LLM knowledge discovery

"Challenges with unsupervised LLM knowledge discovery" is a recent research paper by S. Farquhar et al. This video walks through the paper and highlights some of the key results and implications. Timestamps: 00:00 - Challenges with unsupervised LLM knowledge discovery? 01:41 - Eliciting Latent Kno…

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Anthropic - AI sleeper agents?

"Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that persist through Safety Training" is a recent research paper by E. Hubinger et al. This video walks through the paper and highlights some of the key takeaways. Timestamps: 00:00 - AI Sleeper agents? 01:24 - Threat model 1: deceptive instrumental alignme…

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