Multimodal capabilities are more limited than it seems at first. Lots of guessing
@emollick
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AI Behavior: Plausible but Ultimately Unknowable
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This is completely plausible & a smart leap. And like so many other things about why AI behaves the way it does, it is also likely that we will never know for sure.
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Clarifying AI Autonomy in Creative Automation and Innovation
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To be clear, it doesn’t do these things autonomously (some comments seemed confused) On innovation: https://
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Open Sourced GPT-4 Models Risk Unanticipated Good Bad Effects
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As a reminder, GPT-4 class models out-innovate and out-persuade the average human. An open sourced model of that power is going to lead to lots of unanticipated effects, good and bad.
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Four GPT-4 Class Models Released: What’s Next for AI Development
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We went from only one GPT-4 class model to four this year. Next move is OpenAI’s, which will tell us what the future looks like- plateauing technology or continued rapid development.
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GPT-4 Outperforms Ophthalmology Trainees in Expert Evaluation
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Another one: “Masked ophthalmologists graded the accuracy, relevance, and overall preference [of AI answers]… GPT-4 compared favourably with expert ophthalmologists (median 76%, range 64–90%), ophthalmology trainees (median 59%, range 57–63%), and unspecialised junior doctors…”
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LLM Integration Challenges: IT vs. Educational Expertise
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No wonder IT departments are often baffled by working with LLMs (and teachers are often quite good at prompting them)
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Claude 3 Performance Changes: Measurement Challenges and User Perception
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AI performance measurement is ultimately vibes. Lots of people saying Claude 3 got worse. Anthropic says literally nothing major changed. It could be user misperception. It could be that minor change. Or cosmic rays. It could be that Claude subtly reacts to the Ides of April.
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AI Agents Make Coding Accessible to Non-Technical Users
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Agents are a big deal not just due to autonomy but also because they make sense to non-coders GPT-4 isn't quite there yet, but you get quite far with: "Hey Devin the AI agent make a more engaging version of my website… add links" The results were cute: http://
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OpenAI Updates Kill Startups While RAG Becomes Standard
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Every OpenAI product update kills a bunch of startups & expensive consulting projects. RAG is increasingly being built into core AI model offerings (but RAG is quite limited, and, at times, risky. See halfway though this post: https://
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