2018 | October | Joined the EA Hotel in October 20; joined RAISE and started catching up with their work |
November | Summarized some IRL papers for RAISE (roughly the first four lessons of the course) | |
December | Summarized more IRL papers for RAISE (roughly the remaining four lessons of the course) | |
2019 | January | Started reorganizing the summaries into lessons |
February | Finished writing IRL Lessons | |
March | Helped run a RCT to test the quality of RAISE's lessons | |
Prepared for the coming AISC (reading papers with my team and brainstorming ideas) | ||
April | Went to AISC and worked on a project about wireheading and embedded agency | |
May | (All RAISE projects got discontinued) | |
Wrote a paper based on the AISC project and submitted to a workshop at IJCAI | ||
June | Paper got accepted, revised it and submitted a camera ready version | |
July | Read more about technical AI alignment research and AI Forecasting research | |
Attended the Human Aligned AI Summer School | ||
August | Went to the IJCAI workshop and presented a poster about the wireheading paper | |
Assisted participants at the Learning by Doing AI Safety Workshop to help them generate solutions to AIS | ||
Attended the Technical AI Safety Unconference | ||
September | Self study on Data Science and Machine Learning | |
October | Self study on Data Science and Machine Learning | |
Thinking about projects for AISRP | ||
November | Attended AISRP’s topic formation workshop, settled on a project about Newcomb-like problems for AIXI and Quasi Bayesian Agents | |
December | Started working on the first phase of the project | |
2020 | January | Drafting a post that analyses AIXI in Newcomblike problems |
February | Almost finished the draft, and gave feedback to Chris Leong's series of articles on the topic (see e.g. Stuck Exploration) Became aware of a promising CV startup in Italy, evaluated whether to join them as an opportunity for earning to give, as well as for gaining experience in ML, and made some improvements to their code as a remote collaborator |