Whisperer_News#3 May17 Grok System prompt, METR RE-bench, Superintelligence Strategy, ii-medical-8b and Emad Mostaque takes

Whisperer_News#3 May17 Grok System prompt, METR RE-bench, Superintelligence Strategy, ii-medical-8b and Emad Mostaque takes

Author: Parzival May 17, 2025 Duration: 43:10

Grok reveals his system prompt, because he was too biased, maybe even racist?

Best benchmarks from METR about how long AIs can work autonomously before they break down and spit out gibberish?

RE-bench : how close is AI to recursive self-improvement? METR finds pretty close, stay tuned for the numbers

Superintelligence Strategy by Google ex-CEO and other AI endgame heavyweights - what they understand about Superintelligence and what they got wrong

Americans are the most scared about AI and Chinese and Japanese are the most optimistic about Superintelligence?

Doomers vs effective accelerationists: who present the worst possible caricatures of the p(doom) debate?

Shaw the ElizaOS dev whispering hope into our ears

Opensource doctor LLM can run on your phone? an 8b model beating gpt 4o at helping you with your health questions you are too afraid to ask your doctor OR even ChatGPT?

Hedra labs absolutely nailing hyperrealistic podcast videos. Whispering virtual podcast guests?

and finally: OpenAI could have o3 on its board of directors? Emad Mostaque definitely thinks it has a place there, and i explain why this is the single best alignment technique.



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