How the tech industry rolls: Almost a million people viewed this May 2023 tweet from Mustafa Suleyman promising that “LLM hallucinations will be largely eliminated by 2025”; many of people believed it (and believed many similar promises from the tech industry). I didn’t — I
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Is Causality an Innate Concept in AI Systems?
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i suspect the notion of causality is in some form innate
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Brain Organization Precedes Experience in Learning Mechanisms
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they don’t fully understand it, but a large fraction of brain organization precedes prior to or independently of experience, and underwrite the various kinds of learning mechanisms that different creatures have.
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Clarification on Starship and AGI Feasibility Claims
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show me where i said either that starship or AGi was impossible. oh wait i never said either. you just made both up
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AI Hype Cycle Shifts as Market Correction Begins
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remember how i said AI was overhyped and there would be a reckoning? the vibe is definitely starting to shift.
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Generative AI’s Failure to Build Robust World Models
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Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to induce robust models of the world: https://
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LLMs World Models Robustness Debate LeCun Bengio Sutton
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If you want to actually understand the arguments about LLMs and world models—and why LeCun, Bengio, @RichardSSutton and I have landed in similar places—read my essay “Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to induce robust models of the world”
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LLMs Cannot Reliably Adhere to Instructions
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If only it were so easy. If AI were truly as intelligent as some people (wrongly) believed a prompt like this might actually solve hallucinations. Back in the real world, it won’t. And that should tell you all you need to know. The reality is that LLMs cannot reliably adhere
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AI productivity gains not translating to YC startup growth
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Remember all that fantasy-talk about 10x-ed productivity and billion dollar unicorns with a single employee? A dose of reality: “AI has not yet obviously translated into faster growth for YC startups
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AI’s Growing Negative Perception Despite Positive Potential
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What I hate, truly hate, is that AI (which I love, in principle) has started to feel the same way. Dirty. https://
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