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Sam Altman calls for US-China AI collaboration on risks
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On his world tour @sama dialed into a Beijing conference today and called for US-China collaboration on AI risks. “China has some of the best AI talent in the world,” he said. “I really hope Chinese AI researchers will make great contributions here.”
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AI Conference Speaker’s WiFi Dropout Highlights Persistent Connectivity Problems
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Watching an AI research conference right now where the first speaker, dialing in virtually, dropped for a few minutes due to wifi issues. Host says, "Even in the AI era, we still haven’t fully resolved internet connectivity issues," which pretty much sums up a lot.
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Debunking the China argument against tech regulation
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Excellent, smart piece about why the canonical “Don’t regulate us because China” falls apart when looking at the facts.
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LLM Chatbots in Search: Real-World Applications Matter More Than Media Hype
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I meet people weekly across industries, education levels, countries, etc who believe this, citing the use of LLM chatbots in search. Even some AI researchers who don’t specialize in LLMs. So as much as the media covers this, how these tools are applied is a more powerful signal.
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Google’s Known Inaccuracies vs LLM Hallucination Rates Uncertainty
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People also know Google can be inaccurate but we rely on it anyway because we assume from experience the inaccuracies are small. We still don’t know the degree to which LLM chatbots hallucinate but their marketing as search tools makes many believe they err at a similar rate.
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Technology Marketing Misleads Users About AI Capabilities and Real-World Harm
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Rather than making fun of the lawyer, we should really be asking how these technologies are being marketed in a way that misleads people about the extent of their capabilities and use this as a case study to understand how that can cause real-world harm. https://
x.com/d_feldman/stat
/d_feldman/status/1662308313525100546
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Survey restricted to closed meeting with Huawei and Baidu research links
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The survey is not publicly available. It was delivered during a closed door meeting. The Huawei research: https://
arxiv.org/abs/2303.10845 The Baidu/Peng Cheng research: https://
arxiv.org/pdf/2205.09470
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US Sanctions Drive Chinese Companies to Seek Alternative Hardware Solutions
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Nonetheless, this signals an important effect of US sanctions that people may not have considered. While China is still struggling to build self-sufficiency in high-end chip production, companies are already thinking of other ways to workaround the lack of good hardware.
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Chinese Tech Firms Building Resilience Against US Sanctions
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Taken together, these strategies, if advanced successfully, could allow Chinese tech firms to weather American sanctions and make them more resilient to future restrictions. This won't be an easy task, however. The technical barriers remain really high.