Import AI· Jack Clark·· 2026-08-24AI score47
Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye
Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye
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Import AI issue 470: METR research finds AI brings significant speedups to cybersecurity discoveries, modest contributions to math, but no measurable acceleration yet for optimizing AI research algorithms. Teams from multiple universities propose the SPADE framework, which co-evolves environment synthesis with agent capabilities via self-play, reaching an average score of 58.3 on a suite of game environments with Qwen3-30B-A3B, 5.3 above the baseline. This issue also introduces Hawkeye, for building better GPU kernels.
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