Fundamental AI research is now primarily the purview of large tech companies – a trend that’s becoming more relevant as money & attention are showered on large language models. My piece, with insights from @NurAhmedB & @mer__edith
’s brilliant 2021 paper
BIG TECH
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Big Tech Dominates Fundamental AI Research Landscape Now
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Microsoft Research Director: GPT-4 is Early Strong AI
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Article signé par le Directeur de la Recherche de @Microsoft #GPT4 est une IA forte débutante C’est une bombe !
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ChatGPT Privacy Breach Exposes Sensitive User Data to Other Users
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This is a significant privacy breach. People are encouraged to use ChatGPT as a personal tool, so that means everything from sensitive work tasks to health questions have been exposed to other users.
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Microsoft Campus 2024: Senior Developers Share Tales of Manual Coding Era
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microsoft campus 2024:
a group of senior devs huddle around a flickering fire in the remnants of the structure that used to house microsoft's AI ethics team they share tales of a bygone era when code was crafted by hand, keystroke by keystroke, and debugging was a rite of -
US Regulators Should Collaborate More With AI Innovators
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The US has a strong history of fostering innovation, and regulators have played a key role by establishing clear rules and pursuing bad actors. We hope the US will take a more constructive approach to collaborating with innovators while protecting consumers.
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ChatGPT chat history access outage Monday morning PDT
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unfortunately, users will not be able to access their chat history from monday 1 am PDT until monday 10 am PDT. we will follow up with a technical postmortem.
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ChatGPT security breach exposes user conversation history titles
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we had a significant issue in ChatGPT due to a bug in an open source library, for which a fix has now been released and we have just finished validating. a small percentage of users were able to see the titles of other users’ conversation history. we feel awful about this.
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Bard’s Training Data Transparency Issues and Speculation
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Bard still seems confused about whether it was or wasn't trained using private data from Gmail (Google says it it wasn't). In reality it probably has zero idea what it was trained since that information was not in the training data, so it's just making guesses.
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Bard Training Data: Google Clarifies Non-Use of Gmail
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I was told "We do not use any Gmail data in Bard […] Bard is currently based on a lightweight and optimized version of LaMDA, which was trained on a variety of data from publicly available sources, similar to most language models available today."
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OpenAI Extends Researcher Access to GPT-4 and Code Models
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we didn’t realize how important code-davinci-002 was to researchers, so we are keeping it going in our researcher access program: https://
openai.com/form/researche
r-access-program
… we are also providing researcher access to the base GPT-4 model!