So seems like at least part of the problem was that these where not well known enough? Which by the way is now a problem for the AI Safety Fundamentals curriculum. When I was giving career advise, most people I talked to, didn’t know that the curriculum is publicly available for self studies.
Despite the existence of these older resources, I still think AI Safety Fundamentals is great.
I was surprised to read this:
MIRI, CHAI and 80k all had public reading guides since at least 2017, when I started studying AI Safety.
Recommended Materials – Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (humancompatible.ai)
AI safety syllabus − 80,000 Hours (80000hours.org)
Research Guide—Machine Intelligence Research Institute
So seems like at least part of the problem was that these where not well known enough? Which by the way is now a problem for the AI Safety Fundamentals curriculum. When I was giving career advise, most people I talked to, didn’t know that the curriculum is publicly available for self studies.
Despite the existence of these older resources, I still think AI Safety Fundamentals is great.
I didn’t know that CHAI or 80,000 Hours had recommended material.
The 80,000 Hours syllabus = “Go read a bunch of textbooks”. This is probably not ideal for a “getting started’ guide.
I do think AISF is a real improvement to the field. My apologies for not making this clear enough.
You mean MIRI’s syllabus?
I don’t remember what 80k’s one looked like back in the days, but the one that is up not is not just “Go read a bunch of textbooks”.
I personally used CHAI’s one and found it very useful.
Also some times you should go read a bunch of text books. Textbooks are great.