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Goalpost Movement in AGI Debate: Returning to OpenAI’s Definition
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I feel like the goalpost movement in my tl is in the reverse direction recently, with LLMs solving prompt puzzles and influencers hyperventilating about AGI. The original OpenAI definition is the one I’m sticking with, I’m not sure what people mean by the term anymore.
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From AI Demos to Polished Products: A Long Journey
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Nice a friend I sent this to said it is really great (she already looked for this for weeks with mixed results). It’s clearly a giant use case of gen AI. And a good reminder of how long it can take from demos (the idea has been floating around years ago) to polished products.
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Training Set Anomaly: Need to Write Update Post
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Especially weird considering this one is part of the training set almost certainly and at scale. I should write an update post.
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Will GPT Judge Me for Past Beginner Questions
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Will GPT think worse of me based on that noob bash question I asked 7 months ago
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Word of Mouth Ensemble for Private Boutique Evaluations
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ikr atm trying a word of mouth ensemble over all the boutique private evals out there
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RAG Dead Claims and Large Context Window Practicality Doubts
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My reaction too when reading all the RAG is dead tweets earlier today. Huge amount of optimism that the context window is also usable in practice for real problem solving and not just in theory. Could very well be true I just don’t super know.
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Automating Call Centers: Will 50% of Jobs Disappear?
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It’s a little too soft to resolve properly. Maybe one example. Pick something everyone thinks is surely easy to automate yesterday, eg call centers. Number of employees across the 5 biggest call center companies falls by 50% by year X.
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Moving AI Predictions to Betting Markets for Truth
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Let’s take AI predictions from blog posts, podcasts and tweets and move them to betting markets, our state of the art in truth. My struggle has been coming up with good, concrete, resolvable predicates. Ideally, predicates related to industry metrics and macroeconomics. Eg
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LLM Text Interfaces Need to Evolve Beyond Command Terminals
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Writing text back and forth with an LLM is like we're all the way back to the era of command terminals. The "correct" output is a lot closer to custom web apps written just for your query, information laid out spatially, multimodal, interactive, etc. Will take some time. https://t.co/dMAQEjE8GF pic.twitter.com/N849kmMTZQ
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) 31 mars 2025Writing text back and forth with an LLM is like we're all the way back to the era of command terminals. The "correct" output is a lot closer to custom web apps written just for your query, information laid out spatially, multimodal, interactive, etc. Will take some time.