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Ryan Kidd

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958 total appearances

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Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Yeah, I think like people aren't limited by compute at mass in general.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

I think that the way we do it is pretty good and that we have a bunch of like, you know, kind of like we have our for our model API calls and all that, like we have specific organization accounts that we sign people up, you know, and then we kind of give them a budget and so on and top them up as necessary.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

We do have our own mass cluster as well that we maintain online.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

So our compute team handles that.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

But typically people tend to use run pod and other types of like self-service things.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

It depends on the kind of research.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

There's some types of research that works well on our cluster, and there's some types of research where even with the benefit our compute team can provide in setting up the cluster and maintaining it, the experiments are so customized and they need to tinker so many things that we just give them a budget and let them use online providers.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

It's just better that way.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

We did have these other providers in the past, but that's their current setup.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

And we're looking at putting together like a kind of customized cloud code kind of suite as well.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

I don't think, not MCP, this, well...

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

That's kind of a boring distinction anyway.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Yeah, you're right.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

There's a lot of data, and that's databases.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

We could probably put together something really useful at some point, but we haven't thought about that.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

I mean, our new research database is online, mattsprogram.org slash research.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

You can see everything there.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

We have a Google Scholar.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

But that's just all the papers that got published.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

You can also see our restaurant blog post under the Matts program tag.