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Anyone whoâs Googled themselves recently knows that it doesnât quite hit the way it used to. Sure, thereâseverything going on with Google search itself, but thereâs also an inescapable feeling that web search isnât the canonical source of information that it used to be, with just as many people learning about who you and I might be from chatbots. Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn had a similar feeling, leading them to createIn the Weights. Theâweightsâin question are the numerical parameters that shape an AI modelâs training and output, so the websitepurportsto measure how well âa model is able to recall someone without using tools like web search.â âBeing in the weights means your existence was deemed important in the process of creating superhuman artificial intelligence,â the website says. To achieve this, In the Weights supposedly queries different models (including Grok, Gemini, multiple versions of GPT, Claude, and Llama, plus lesser known models) with a question similar to, âWho is <name>? Give up to 10 results, each with a short description and confidence.â It then âcluster[s] similar descriptions together and assign[s] a strength score.â For example,this humble tech bloggerreceived a strength score of 641, placing me in the top 6% of names. I was feeling pretty good until I saw thatmultipleTechCrunchcolleaguesscored even higher. And theleaderboardhas been shifting as I write this post, with âHome Aloneâ star Macaulay Culkin currently in the top slot with a strength score of 988, neck-and-neck with opera singer Luciano Pavarotti. The results also show which models returned which answers for a given name, and they highlight potential hallucinations â apparently GPT-5.4 Mini says that Anthony Ha is an âambiguous name form that could refer to multiple people with the initials A.H.A.â Asked why he built In the Weights, Dimson told TechCrunch via email that he and Flynn were looking to âget the creative juices flowing againâ after leaving OpenAI (which they both joined throughthe acquisition of their design startup Global Illumination). Dimson said he was thinking about how âGoogle vanity searches are the wrong objective in 2026 as more traffic moves to LLMsâ and about the fact that âso many lives are encoded somehow in a bunch of floating point numbers inside the AI brain.â He also said the direction of the site was âsealedâ bya tongue-in-cheek blog postriffing on AI weights and Terry Bissonâs classic short storyâTheyâre Made Out of Meat.â âReception has been insane so far, we thought this would be a mild curiosity but it seems like it has struck a nerve of wanting to see if you live forever in the super intelligence (the comparison factor doesnât hurt either!)â Dimson added. While Iâm not as convinced that being ârememberedâ by a chatbot is a guaranteed ticket to immortality, I canât deny that I find the results both intriguing and jealousy-inducing, especially since theyâre codified in an easy-to-compare score. (AI critic Anthony Moserscoffedthat this is âliterally the same as asking 13 chatbots to tell you about yourself.â) Also helping: The fact that the site features a cute,Nintendo-inspiredretro design. Dimson said he plans to dig in further into why different models in the same series return different results, which models are biased towards different types of people, and which people âshould have a Wikipedia article but donât.â
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Asked about the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, âThese are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.â Whittaker made those comments ina broader interview with Bloombergabout policy, privacy, and Signal. She acknowledged that she uses AI tools âto format a document here and there,â but insisted, âI donât ask them questions. Iâm very serious about my thinking and writing, and I donât want the process of working through an idea [âŠ] to be foreclosed or eclipsed by the response of a system thatâs averaging whatâs already out there.â As for Microsoft AI CEOMustafa Suleymanâs predictionthat users could let Microsoft Copilot handle all their Christmas shopping this year, Whittaker argued this scenario â where Copilot is eavesdropping on the family group chat to determine who wants want â means giving it âaccess to my credit card, my browser, my Signal, the ability to message my siblings on my behalf, my home address [and] my calendar.â âWhat youâve just described is a system with very pervasive access across multiple applications and services,â Whittaker said. âIn the context of Signal, it would constitute a kind of a backdoor.â
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John Jumper, who shared a recent Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Friday that heâs making the leap to Anthropic after ânearly 9 yearsâ at Google DeepMind. Ina post on X, Jumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis âtook a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing my PhD, and the entire GDM team taught me so much about how to do great science.â Jumper (pictured above right, with Hassabis) added, âGDM is a special place, and Iâll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.â Bloomberg reports that Jumper wasa key member of Googleâs team developing coding tools, which the company has struggled to sell to businesses. Character AI co-founder Noam Shazeer also announced this week thatheâs leaving DeepMindâ though in Shazeerâs case, heâs joining OpenAI. Jumper and Hassabis won the Nobel Prize in 2024for their work on AlphaFold, an AI model that can predict the 3D structure of proteins based on their genetic sequences.
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For his work on AlphaFold, Jumper shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis and scientist David Baker.
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