My name is James and I am most interested in using computers to help build a better world with AI/ML technologies and stopping AI/ML from making the world worse
I am currently a Master of AI student at Victoria University of Wellington.
Very interested in AI safety (technical alignment and mis-alignment evaluation) and making sure the next step change in intelligence leads to an increase in survival and flourishing of humans.
Keen to hear about any projects and ideas in this space that I could be of use.
My website (that I endeavour to write on more often!).
| name | description |
|---|---|
| TAIC engine | Using LLMs and classical NLP methods to scrape and curate a database of identified; safety issues, recommendations etc from various national agencies transport investigations groups. This database is used for analysis as well as powering multiple smart tools used internally Funded by the New Zealand Transport Accident Investigation Commission |
| Aligning a LLM to the NZ public | Curently mid project!, proposal (experiment and evaluation design) in first draft stage, experiments not yet commenced. This project will explore using democratically collected values to align a LLM to act in alignment with various subgroups of the New Zealand population. Complated as main Master of AI project |
| Exploring Deep Reinforcement learning for Continuous Robotic control | A project that involved exploring current SOTA methods for training agents to control robots in various simulated environments. Completed as part of Master of AI |
| Getting a LLM to cheat at chess | A study heavily inspired by reserach from Palisade research. Investigating the when and how various modern LLM cheat (replacing board, using chess engine, etc) when tasked with playing a game of chess. Completed as part of Master of AI |
Some older projects for completeness sake. We can call this the legacy section
| name | description |
|---|---|
| Music school invoicing system | A complete attendance management and invoicing system built for a Music school based in Wellington. Uses App script and the Google Workspace environment. Work completed as a Contractor |
| Expanding a R statistic package that assists blind users | Worked with Dr Godfrey developing the BrailleR package. Added support for audio visual exploration of graphs as well as supporting more graph types in the graph -> text pipeline Completed as part of Summer Research Grant from Massey University (2022/23) |
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