Serious question: Should I write a short book called 7 lies about AI that never die?
@garymarcus
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Debating the current state and progress of artificial intelligence
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incorrect. read this, please: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/misplaced-panic-over-ai-progress?r=8tdk6&utm_medium=ios
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Addressing Public Panic Over AI Progress
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If you believe this nonsense, and a lot of people do, I beg you to read my newsletter called “Misplaced Panic Over AI progress”
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Debating the reach of AI capabilities beyond math and coding
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oh i agree on math and coding; but he is saying it will go far beyond to open-ended domains, and that’s where the disagreement lies
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Analyzing Model Accuracy Thresholds and Task Performance
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they have tasks out to 16 hours (i believe_, so there is plenty of headroom at 90% accuracy. which is to say lots of tasks in the current edition of the task where the model is not at 90%. if you insist on 95% accuracy even more. the 50% is just an arbitrary criterion; there
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Deconstructing Geoffrey Hinton’s Perspective on AI
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you are lost, brother, read this: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
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Deconstructing Geoffrey Hinton’s Views on AI
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the details of what he said and why it was wrong are here: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/deconstructing-geoffrey-hintons-weakest?r=8tdk6&utm_medium=ios
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Deconstructing Geoffrey Hinton’s Recent AI Perspectives
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Receipts: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
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DeepMind paper provides evidence for LLM training data regurgitation
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Am old enough to remember when @GeoffreyHinton told me I was stupid for saying that LLMs regurgitate training data. He was wrong. LLM regurgitation is now one of the best-established findings in the field. Excerpt below from a new DeepMind paper; every single one of the
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The challenges of LLM alignment with human values
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Not even surprised by horrific stories like these anymore. The mission of getting LLMs aligned with human values has largely been a failure.