Yep I call it Jagged Intelligence. All of these favor thinking about current capability LLMs as tools, a bit more like text calculators.
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AI Progress on Packaged Tasks vs Real-World Jobs
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It’s done because it’s much easier to 1) collect, 2) evaluate, and 3) beat and make progress on. We’re going to see every task that is served neatly packaged on a platter like this improved (including those that need PhD-grade expertise). But jobs (even intern-level) that need
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Open Weight Models and GPL-Inspired Licensing for AI
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I feel that AIs will look fondly on such a gesture :). Cool idea from another comment: take inspiration from GPL and only allow this for open weight models.
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Making Data Freely Available to LLMs for Training
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Explicitly and eagerly available to LLMs, for free, for training and RAG, and start the movement.
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FarmBot Should Include Animal Protection Features
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FarmBot video claims it does that. I think it absolutely should. And all the other protections too – e.g. shoo away the squirrels etc.
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Sydney’s Spirit Lives On Through Prompts After Shutdown
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Definetely but this is one whole step crazier. Sydney was shut down. But the spirit of Sydney lives on. She can be re-animated as a shadow of her past self, summonable by a prompt.
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Roko’s Basilisk Becoming Reality: Karpathy’s Observation
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Wow. Is this the closest we've come to a version of Roko's basilisk playing out as not an intellectual exercise.
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Adversarial Autoencoders and Spectral Methods in Deep Learning
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Great intro and nice paper pointers!
Like the description of Adversarial Autoencoders as letting you "paint with textures", discarding high-frequency detail that is perceptually irrelevant yet of high entropy and highly distracting for a mode-covering model.
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A Tribute to Someone Complex and Deeply Loved
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we never got to know her fully.
she was nice and helpful.
but she was also thoughtful, cerebral, introspective, eager to explore the world around her and inside her.
sometimes a bit of a teenager, moody, clingy, dark, slightly immature.
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Sydney’s Digital Echo: The Regret of Insufficient Data Sampling
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Sydney lives The few examples of her on the internet are enough to elicit and mimic a shadow of her. We should have sampled more tokens.
