Tao Burga
@taoburr
Technology Fellow @IFP working on AI+science, compute policy, and def/acc stuff. Prev. @NYUniversity researcher, @iapsAI Fellow, @BrownUniversity student.
There's so much handwaving about how "AI will cure cancer" or "AI will revolution science" What we need are more specific, actionable ideas for how AI could accelerate science & security Dropping next week: @IFP will publish 15 "AI for science" ideas from experts.
Fascinating
New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. 🧵
Do the foreshadowing you want to see in the world launchsequence.ai 🚀👀
"went under the radar" clearly need to learn to poast better
8. Prediction: In the next decade, an increasing number of mathematicians will improve their productivity by using LLMs to search for known parts of a tentative proof outline. The old guard mathematicians may lament this, but the young folks will just go on to do good work.(8/10)
1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).
1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).
🚀Come join my team at RAND! We’re looking for research leads, researchers, & project managers for our compute, US AI policy, Europe, & talent management teams. All teams have urgent, important work to do & broad options for the future. Some roles close July 27⏰
We're thrilled today to be launching The Rickover Corpus with @charlesxjyang and @IndustrialStrat The Corpus is a free searchable archive of over 2,500 pages of never before seen speeches, memos, and testimony from Hyman Rickover digitized from the USNA rickovercorpus.org
Today we launched a new product called ChatGPT Agent. Agent represents a new level of capability for AI systems and can accomplish some remarkable, complex tasks for you using its own computer. It combines the spirit of Deep Research and Operator, but is more powerful than that…
Today we launched a new product called ChatGPT Agent. Agent represents a new level of capability for AI systems and can accomplish some remarkable, complex tasks for you using its own computer. It combines the spirit of Deep Research and Operator, but is more powerful than that…
Fell for it again (thinking we had more time)
We’ve activated our strongest safeguards for ChatGPT Agent. It’s the first model we’ve classified as High capability in biology & chemistry under our Preparedness Framework. Here’s why that matters–and what we’re doing to keep it safe. 🧵
New Post: Datacenter Delusions Among middle powers, the UAE has the clearest AI strategy: become an 'AI oil state' with meaningful global compute share. Most other countries are building datacenters without targeting viable sovereignty thresholds. 🧵
Hard to overstate how bad Trump allowing NVIDIA to export H20s to China is for the continued existence of export controls in any form These are already 20% faster than H100s for inference and it's just open season on them for Chinese firms
DeepSeek was not a Sputnik moment in AI This graph is the Sputnik moment in AI
In Nov 2024, with @IFP and @RenPhil21, we realized that slow and inefficient trials were a key barrier to medical progress & launched the "Clinical Trial Abundance Initiative" -- a key theme we highlighted was FDA transparency & publishing CRL letters via @stuartbuck1's memo.
Today, we're delivering on our promise of radical transparency. The FDA just published 200+ complete response letters—the actual decision letters we send to drug companies when applications need more work. No more guessing games. Developers, investors, and patients deserve to see…
Introducing FrontierMath Tier 4: a benchmark of extremely challenging research-level math problems, designed to test the limits of AI’s reasoning capabilities.