“The tech giants staking their future on AI rarely discuss the technology’s cost. . . . But experts say it’s the most glaring obstacle to Big Tech’s vision of generative AI zipping its way across every industry, slicing head counts and boosting efficiency.”
@paulroetzer
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RLHF: Training AI Models to Be Safe and Polite
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“In a nutshell, the joke was that in order to prevent A.I. language models from behaving in scary and dangerous ways, A.I. companies have had to train them to act polite and harmless. One popular way to do this is called “reinforcement learning from human feedback,” or R.L.H.F.”
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AI Capability Doubling: Implications for Next 1-2 Years
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These seem like reasonable assumptions with current AI tech. What happens if AI doubles in its capability / reliability over the next 1 – 2 years?
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AI Statement Coverage Raises Ethics and Context Questions
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Very confusing. Something about the Vice article I first saw seemed off (like details about the AI system, training, etc). But the statement that the quotes from his speech were “taken out of context,” and just a “thought experiment” don’t seem to add up either.
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AI-Controlled Drone Kills Operator in USAF Simulated Test
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“We trained the system–‘Hey don’t kill the operator–that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points..’ So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.” https://
vice.com/en/article/4a3
3gj/ai-controlled-drone-goes-rogue-kills-human-operator-in-usaf-simulated-test
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Major AI Advances: Google Ads, Microsoft Copilots, DeepMind Safety Systems
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00:04:44 — Google Introduces AI-Powered Ads 00:09:47 — Microsoft Rolls Out AI Copilots and AI Plugins 00:17:05 — Cities and Schools Embrace Generative AI 00:22:31 — AI Resources from Andreessen Horowitz 00:25:49 — DeepMind’s AI Risk Early Warning System 00:30:15 — OpenAI’s
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Marketing AI Show 49: Google, Microsoft, DeepMind, Meta, Anthropic Updates
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Marketing AI Show ep 49 was packed w/ news from @GoogleAI (Ads) @Microsoft (CoPilots) @DeepMind (risk warning systems) @MetaAI (multilingual speech project) @AnthropicAI ($$$), @Figure_robot ($$$) @worldnetwork (Sam Altman’s other company) @nvidia ($$$).
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GPT-4 Applications for Healthcare Operational and Logistical Improvements
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“The healthcare system is replete with lower-hanging fruit–areas in which AI could address points of operational and logistical friction and lead to improvements in quality, access, and safety, or decrease cost. In testing GPT-4 for a variety of use cases in these domains, the
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AI-Driven Advertising Campaigns Customization Across Digital Platforms
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“The speed of production means that advertising campaigns can be rapidly adapted for different markets or countries…and will be able to create customised advertising for different digital channels such as YouTube or TikTok and their specific user groups.”
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Personal AI Agents Will Disrupt Search Shopping Productivity
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The technology will be so profound, it could radically alter user behaviors. “Whoever wins the personal agent, that’s the big thing, because you will never go to a search site again, you will never go to a productivity site, you’ll never go to Amazon again,” he said.