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Wed 28 Oct 202613:30 - 15:00 | Seminar: Sid Baines - Aligning AIs is hard: why work on it?
![]() Centre for Experimental Physics and Quantum Technology Five years ago, frontier AI was able to perform tasks which take a human approximately 30 seconds, like answering a simple question or counting the words in a short passage. Three years ago, it was able to perform basic lookup tasks taking humans a few minutes, like searching for a fact on wikipedia. One year ago, it was able to perform multi-hour projects, like 'train an adversarially robust image model'. Last month, claims were made that frontier AI models solved a millennium problem, amongst... |

Seminar: Sid Baines - Aligning AIs is hard: why work on it?
