boston really is the best place in the world for ai x bio great night in cambridge with abinitio bio + @fearnlegal and the people building it.

pretty wild and insanely concerning that oai may have used deidentified customer data to provide timely results on the navier-stokes millenium problem. as a former academic, i'd certainly be annoyed, but as a current startup founder at an ai-native patent firm ... i think it more than emphasizes that we are currently in /headed twoards a universe where the legal and business ramifications of handing data to 3rd party ai providers can be deeply problematic, and that using the right ai infrastructure for legal applications actually matters. in the world we're headed, imo, if patents are written with the wrong infrastructure, filing dates can be questioned, patents can be weakened/nullified, etc.. add on top of this the recent watermarking tech from closed-source model providers, and i think a case for law firms to invest in the correct ai infrastructure becomes pretty clear. even tho the technical barrier is higher than just plugging into off-the-shelf apis, i think it's more than worthwhile for firms to learn how to post-train models, self-host and deploy, etc. to protect their clients.

“we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.” i mean props to them for straight coming clean. (so far the proof looks more along the lines of another euler blowup proof we had, off of whose ansatz naming we were making really stupid puns like “smooth criminale”, unlike the much better “ideal fluids explode”, Tristan) so i’ll now give a bit on my thinking here. i actually woulda been pumped to collaborate on this, there are a lot of people at oai i like (ok, clearly some were indirectly dicks to me because of being part of the whole situation, but im a big boy, i still like them), idgaf about authorship on that step anyway, coulda been me Tristan and every fte at oai for all i care (on that Tristan would disagree:p). but on hearing the loud convo in the hallway, especially the part where a millennium prize was offered if i’d just be removed from the paper, it was kinda clear the die had been cast and things were locked. pretty wacky, unstrategic, and unnecessary, since on my side things were mostly me and claude having a good time yoloing random stuff in the corner rather than anything institutional. i also like the idea of the labs cooperating, and even better on scientific progress. it’s a shame!

my favs are in the experiential events tab: - bike rides - bookstores - narrative making - sushi making - ai vs human beat boxing competition - pitch roasts