A GPT-4 powered customer service bot “is doing the equivalent work of 700 full-time agents” after a month. This is a press release from the company deploying it, so take it with a grain of salt, but it does match what I am seeing elsewhere and it suggests big implications.
@emollick
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Sora’s Video Generation Capabilities Enable Advanced 3D Reconstruction
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Interesting early evidence that Sora, the movie creator from OpenAI, may indeed be a big leap in capabilities: “we observe that the videos generated with Sora are good enough for 3D reconstruction, with significant advantages across all selected metrics” https://
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Copilot Sydney Personality: Human Trust and AI Anthropomorphization
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I am not seeing signs that Copilot has “brought Sydney back” – responses seem pretty normal so far However, I am actually a fan of giving AI more personality. People anthropomorphize anyway, and you might be less trusting of a slightly over-the-top Sydney than an “objective” AI.
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Autocorrect Obscures Causal Relationships in Language Models
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Autocorrect makes causality seem far too casual.
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Causal Explainer GPT Tool for Statistical Analysis
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Before anyone asks, here are the results of my “Is it Casual” GPT. https://
chat.openai.com/g/g-GGnYfbTin-
correlation-isn-t-causation-a-causal-explainer
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Nature Study Warns of Concerning AI Development Implications
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I have some bad news for you. Yes, you. https://
nature.com/articles/s4427
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LLM Explanations: Plausibility Versus Faithfulness Analysis
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Paper on how to think about how LLMs explain their answers as plausible (do they make sense) & faithful (do they accurately represent how the LLM "thought"). For some cases, like the LLM explaining how to calculate 5!, you want plausible but not faithful. https://
arxiv.org/pdf/2402.04614
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Industrial Infrastructure as Engineering Achievement and Human Innovation
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This is why I like Infrastructure, a sort of birding guide for the built environment. Reading it, you realize that the industrial landscape is an achievement, the result of complex optimization and hard engineering and human factors. We do that, not pyramids, for better & worse.
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AI-Generated Magic Cards Showcase Innovation Through Creative Remixing
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I like this feed of AI-generated magic cards, and not just because I am a nerd. They illustrate how AI can be valuable in innovation, even when it is just remixing ideas. Recombinations result in unexpected & unexplored novelty. Humans can easily filter out bad ideas & keep good
