Hidden amongst the zingers in the leaked Google memo there's this: data quality is what is making the difference now. This is an important shift away from internet-scale garbage dump datasets that have been running the show for years.
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Congratulations on Important Achievement After Years of Hard Work
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Congratulations to the many people who worked hard on this over multiple years. There's a long way to go, but this is an important start. Congrats to Samy Bengio, @rajiinio @SashaMTL for guiding this over the line.
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Pivot Podcast: Discord Leaks, San Francisco Safety Discussion
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And here's Pivot with Kara and Scott: https://
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the
-discord-leaks-san-francisco-safety-and-kate/id1073226719?i=1000609459116
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Google’s C4 Dataset Contains Harmful Extremist Content Despite Filtering
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This Post investigation underscores why studying training data is so important. Even post-filtering, Google's widely used C4 dataset is riddled with white supremacist, anti-trans, pro-Jan 6 riots and QAnon pizzagate content. That's just for starters.
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Nuanced Conversations About Generative AI With Journalists
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There's been a lot of shade about how journalists are covering generative AI. But I had the pleasure of speaking with @chrislhayes and @karaswisher @profgalloway this week, and it reminded me there are still spaces where nuanced conversations about AI can happen.
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AI as sociotechnical constructs beyond technical understanding
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At the technical level, yes. More broadly, they're better understood as sociotechnical constructs, which @ananny argues in this terrific essay https://
law.yale.edu/sites/default/
files/area/center/isp/documents/ananny.pdf
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Zip-NeRF 3D rendering and Amazon Roomba mapping implications
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Lots of chatter about what this video means for generative media. Zip-NeRF can render a 3D space quickly from a small collection of 2D images (with fewer errors). Also thinking about how this connects to Amazon buying Roomba, with all those maps of the inside of homes… https://t.co/37jloBNbkG
— Kate Crawford (@katecrawford) 16 avril 2023Lots of chatter about what this video means for generative media. Zip-NeRF can render a 3D space quickly from a small collection of 2D images (with fewer errors). Also thinking about how this connects to Amazon buying Roomba, with all those maps of the inside of homes…
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LLMs Confidently State Facts They Don’t Understand
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Indeed, LLMs don't understand facts. But they confidently state them, and this can be misleading to millions of people. It's a misinformation minefield.
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Questioning GPT-4 Methods to Minimize Widespread Issues
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Yup, it's everywhere. It would be interesting to know how they are trying to minimize this in GPT-4
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Hallu-citations Impact on Erdős-Bacon Number Games
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Hallu-citations will really mess up everyone’s Erdős-Bacon game