Reflecting on Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Neural Networks

Over the holidays I decided it's been too long since I did something with entirely no purpose. So without further ado, I present to you ... Regex Chess: sequence of 84,688 regular expressions that, when executed in order, will play a (valid; not entirely terrible) move given a chess board as input.

I let a language model write my bio. It went about as well as you might expect.

The field of AI is progressing much faster than many expected. When things are changing so fast, it can be hard to remember what you thought was impossible just a few years ago, and conversely, what you thought was obviously going to be trivially solved that still hasn't been.

I don't think that "AI" models [a] (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped.

Yesterday I was forwarded a bunch of messages that Prof. Ben Zhao (a computer science professor [a] A full professor with tenure, so I feel entirely within my rights to call him out here. at the University of Chicago) wrote about me on a public Discord server with 15,000 members, including this gem: