Do you think that was a failing in the technology or a failing in the concept itself? Is it possible that a voice assistant in your home is actually much less useful and compelling than it seems like it should be?
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AI Preferences: Clarifying the Core Discussion
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I think we need to back up and try to say better what this conversation is about. It's got nothing to do with human preferences. It's about AIs ending up with preferences.
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Utility as Optimized Property in Outer Optimization Processes
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We're not using "utility" as something that's supposed to descriptively surprisingly true of human preference; we're using it to describe properties that we expect to get optimized into a thinking process by any outer optimization that rewards good outer solutions.
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Evolution’s Optimization Process and Reality’s Infinite Degrees of Freedom
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Evolution's outer optimization process was aimed at "inclusive genetic fitness", a simple concept that humans never even formed except by postmortem reconstruction millions of years later. There's vastly more degrees of freedom in "where to steer reality" than "predicting
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Emerging AI Agent Architectures: Reasoning, Planning, and Tool Calling
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8/ Emerging AI Agent Architectures – a summary of emerging AI agent architectures; it focuses the discussion on capabilities like reasoning, planning, and tool calling which are all needed to build complex AI-powered agentic workflows and systems.
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Top ML Papers Week: Llama 3, Mixtral, RAG Advances
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The Top ML Papers of the Week (April 15 – April 21): – Llama 3
– Mixtral 8x22B
– A Survey on RAG
– How Faithful are RAG Models?
– Emerging AI Agent Architectures
– Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt
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Claude AI Assistant Delivers Results with Persuasion
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With a little convincing, Claude comes through pic.twitter.com/vdtpbjEVRV
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 21 avril 2024With a little convincing, Claude comes through
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Vapi AI Integrates Llama3 Models on Groq LPUs
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Another update…and now @Vapi_AI has added Llama3 8B and 70B to their AI voice agent service. We love seeing all the momentum from developers trying out this set of models from @aiatmeta running inference on our LPUs. Keep it coming!
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Agent-Based Modeling as Appropriate Research Method for Specific Questions
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As this tweet has traveled further from its initial audience, the commentary has gotten particularly toxic. i may have to delete. This isn’t about replacing all psych studies or ethnography, etc.! But there are many research questions where agent-based modeling is appropriate.
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AI Autonomously Generates and Tests Hypotheses
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It generates hypotheses autonomously and tests them autonomously