AI researcher at Anthropic quits job to write Poetry

[Trish]

going to do it anyway no matter what. Future with autonomous weapons sucks though.

Of course they are, and so is the US it's only logical. What I don't get is why OpenAI would bother to lie about it. It's so transparent it's painful.

 

[defaux]

sounds like something straight out of fiction

 

[Louanne Learning]

And - Mrinank Sharma, (PhD in Statistical Machine Learning, University of Oxford) - a top researcher at Anthropic - has quit his job to write poetry.

This is another poem written by Sharma. I tend to read his poems through the lens of his AI experience now.

Distance

Sometimes I see behind
the masks and facades
that draw and divert me,

and I sense your ugliness:
a terrific,
terrifying stillness,
and I think:
give that to me.

I want to die.

Because I know
that this ugliness:
this is where God touched you,
and my love,
this is how God conceived you,

and I long
for just one drop
of its pure divine
truth.

But my love,
I see you also
in fear, and to your fear,
I bow, and as I bow,
I know:

this too
is sacred.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Hmm. I can sort of understand this poem -- I think! -- but there doesn't seem to be a unifying theme. *shrug*

I won't make any comment on why he resigned. I simply don't know the facts well enough.

 

[Riddley Walker]

No poet should give up their day job. It's pretty hard to make a living writing poetry.

 

[Homer Potvin]

No poet should give up their day job. It's pretty hard to make a living writing poetry.

Pretty hard to make a living with a day job too these days....