It is an interesting paper on how zero-shot multimodal ability scales linearly with exponential data, but it isn’t “AI is going to fail soon.” I wouldn’t be sure it generalizes beyond particular text-to-image techniques. And there are often ways around issues.
@emollick
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Three AI Trends Shaping the Future: Frontier Models and Autonomous Agents
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Three trends to watch that will shape the future of what AI will mean for us:
1) The unknown capabilities of frontier models
2) Growing evidence of "superhuman" LLM performance in some areas
3) Autonomous agents
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Decade of Learning Science and AI Educational Simulations
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I have been doing the science of learning for a decade! My work on that is what drew me to AI. I have been building advanced educational simulations since 2009.
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AI-Enhanced Learning: Meta-Analysis on Effective Study Techniques
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We have come to learn a lot about how we learn, but students often rely on outdated study techniques. Here's the results of a large meta-analysis on learning. Skip highlighting, summarizing & rereading. Instead, practice, quiz & explain (AI can quiz you). https://
journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/Z
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Grok’s Real-Time Event Summarization Capabilities Improve Rapidly
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I've been pretty critical of Grok (and it keeps not working quite right), but its ability to do real-time summarizing of changing events is improving rapidly, and is differentiated from other LLMs. No idea of the actual accuracy though.
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AI Safety: Teaching Chatbots to Disengage Appropriately
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One smart thing that Copilot/Bing does well is giving the AI the ability to hang up on you. Otherwise, you can end up in a dead-end place where you “offended” the AI which will just keep looping through refusals & recriminations. Clearing the context window is the way forward.
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AI Implementation Requires Hands-On Experience Not Just Consulting
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One problem is the usual pathways for working with technology don't work here. The consultants don't have special knowledge you don't & you need to use the systems to understand what AI can do for you. Otherwise, it is all just talk & feels like fiction.
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Senior Leaders Struggle to Drive AI Adoption Across Organizations
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A thing that I keep seeing in organizations I talk to: a few senior people are experimenting with AI in their work and realizing that this is going to be a huge deal in their industry…. yet they have huge trouble getting their colleagues to even try the systems out seriously.
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Claude 3 simulates DOS games but struggles with unconventional approaches
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Claude 3 does a pretty good job simulating early 1980s DOS adventure games, it is pretty amusing to use the most sophisticated technology available today to play an Infocom knock-off. But it really doesn't like it when you try too "unconventional" an approach to problem solving.
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Top AI Use Case: Personalized Educational Content Generation
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Honestly this is the number one AI use case people tell me about. (The more intense example is to add “and that teaches a lesson about astronomy appropriate for a five year old”)