An interview in Computer Vision News: Self-Supervised Learning, JEPA, and the future of AI.
@ylecun
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Open Source AI Safety Advantages Over Closed Source
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Excellent thread by Stanford's @percyliang with a list of reasons why open source AI platforms are inherently *safer* than closed source ones.
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LLMs capabilities limits and security risks balance
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YES!
One can believe that LLMs can do amazing things and are useful, *without* believing they are anywhere close to human-level intelligence (even if they are superior to humans in a few tasks). One can believe that LLMs will give new tools to people with bad intention *without* -
Llama and Llama-2 reshape the LLM landscape significantly
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VentureBeat writes about the earth-shattering effect of the release of Llama and Llama-2 on the LLM landscape.
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Research Leaders Should Work with Smarter Minds
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I dunno, man. As a leader of research groups, I'm very familiar with *not* being the smartest entity in the room. Let alone on earth. One should strive to work with people who are smarter than themselves (or at least, smarter in some areas), and one shou,d enjoy doing so.
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Pandemics and AI risks are fundamentally different phenomena
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Some people are assimilating the risks associated with pandemics with the risks associated with AI progress.
There is a fundamental difference. Pandemics are natural phenomena.
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AI Defense Techniques Mirror Offensive Capabilities
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That's pretty much true for any nefarious use of AI: if bad actors can use AI for something, the same AI techniques can be used to protect against them.
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Knowledge Dissemination: Professors and Researchers Roles
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Because by hiding knowledge from others, they may gain power over them.
Some people's profession is to disseminate knowledge.
They are called professors.
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Distinguish Data from Knowledge for Better Understanding
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Do not confuse data and knowledge.
Knowledge enables a better understanding of the world.
