AI - AI Dynamics

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19 January 2023 3h21

It doesn’t take ChatGPT to do that. And I’ve mentioned other killer apps before.

Computers as Syntactic Machines and LLMs’ Semantic Progress

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19 January 2023 3h19

Computers are syntactic machines. Large language models are a small step toward semantics.

Word Processors Will Soon Block Harmful Language

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19 January 2023 3h13

Soon, word processors won’t let you type harmful words.

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GPT-3 understands ASCII art but not rasterized images

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@goodside

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19 January 2023 3h13

It definitely can understand small, cartoon-style ASCII art (e.g. it knows ">" is a fish and "(o_o)" is a face) but it isn't good at rasterized images. E.g. GPT-3 could do this back in August:

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GPT-3 identifies ASCII art MNIST as ‘8’ 57%, ‘4’ absent in top-5

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@goodside

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19 January 2023 3h06

There's a thread going around claiming ChatGPT / GPT‑3 can recognize subjects (e.g. "a bird", "a person") in images rasterized as ASCII art. I'm skeptical. E.g., GPT‑3 identifies this ASCII-art MNIST digit as "8" 57% of the time and "4" doesn't appear in its top-5 choices:

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Google Research Responds to AI Criticism with 2022 Achievements Overview

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@swyx

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19 January 2023 2h50

Google PR counterreaction begins, from Jeff Dean, reminding everyone of the extensive contributions from Google Research across LLMs, ViTs, Multimodal, and Generative text/audio/video: https://
ai.googleblog.com/2023/01/google
-research-2022-beyond-language.html?m=1
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ChatGPT’s Killer App: AI Demonstrations

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19 January 2023 2h31

The killer app of ChatGPT is AI demos.

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Google Research Community Contributions in AI Series

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@jeffdean

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19 January 2023 2h19

A huge thanks to all of the @GoogleResearch community whose great work is represented in this post as well as the subsequent posts in the series.

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Microsoft Research closes entire Israel lab in surprise layoffs

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@thegautamkamath

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19 January 2023 1h26

Can anyone independently confirm this? Report is that Microsoft Research laid off the entire Israel lab. If true, reminiscent of when MSR Silicon Valley closed down overnight in 2014. Seems unbelievable this would happen again (if true).

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Building a Midwit Meme Classifier for Twitter Bot

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@alexalbert__

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19 January 2023 1h14

I also overengineered some aspects of it for fun… I wanted to apply what I have learned in the fast ai course, so I created a midwit meme image classifier that I integrated into the twitter bot