Let’s say you have a system that presents as if it can write biographies, summarize articles, interact w users, generate reports, etc. You can then ask two questions – Does the system invent stuff that isn’t true in the course of carrying out those functions? – Is the system
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Technical Challenge with Major Social Implications
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Exactly, that’s what I was willing to bet about. It’s a narrow but formidable technical problem with large social consequence.
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LLMs Hallucinate Inventions While Databases Don’t
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getting something right is, again, not the same as not hallucinating. There are multiple sources of error; whole cloth inventions are different eg from misparsing of instructions. Databases don’t just invent things but LLMs do.
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Sam Altman Quotes: Truth or Bullshit Analysis
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Truth or bullshit, the Sam Altman edition! Give me your favorite Altman quotes and I will evaluate some of them in my next Substack essay 🙂
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Balancing Short-term and Long-term AI Risk Assessment
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I focused on both short term and long term risks, and made sure both were represented
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Driverless Cars Will Displace Millions of Driver Jobs
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Taken literally this cannot be correct indefinitely; eg at some point driverless cars will actually work, and there will be far fewer jobs for a large number of drivers. A few might manage fleets but most will be out or work; some will find new ones; no guarantee they all will. https://
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Representing Complex Sentence Structure in NLP Systems
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I am talking about how we represent eg complex sentences in terms of their parts.
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Neural basis of recursion breakthrough awaited by researchers
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If anybody finally figures out the neural basis of recursion, feel free to wake me at any hour. I am totally there for the science!
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Resisting Regulatory Capture in AI Governance
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Huge concern; thoughts about how to resist regulatory capture (aside from simply having no regulation) most welcome.
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Do AI systems have internet and source code access?
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do they have internet and source code access?