In this episode of #AIToday we discuss the growing need for critical thinking skills, what this means, why it's important, and how you can improve your critical thinking skills. Check out the full episode at
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Evals Broken by Marketing Incentives and Goodhart’s Law
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evals were not broken when evals werent marketing goodhart, bad incentives
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How Research Evolves: From RL Robotics to Direct Chatbot Optimization
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How research works:
– John Schulman did his PhD on reinforcement learning for robotics.
– Then he went to OpenAI and applied it to GPT-3, giving us ChatGPT.
– Then other researchers found there's no need for RL, because you can directly optimize chatbots to please their users.
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Personal Universes: Solution to Multi-Agent Value Alignment
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Personal Universes: A Solution to the Multi-Agent Value Alignment Problem Roman V. Yampolskiy : https://
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AI Won’t Bring SkyNet or Financial Security
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There are many things you can worry about, but SkyNet taking over the world ain't it. And the rise of more general AI in the coming years (note: current AI has close to no intelligence and no generality, so far) will *not* save you from needing a 401k or a pension.
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AI Anxiety: How Existential Fears Affect Life Planning
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This is an underappreciated point. I sometimes hear from people who are so sure they're going to be dead in 10-20 years "because of AI" that they've stopped any sort of long-term planning of their lives, e.g. saving for retirement. Sometimes it's the reverse — "I don't need to
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Khosla’s 12 Tech Predictions: AI Optimism and Empathy
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Four of my favorite slides from silicon valley investing GOAT Vinod Khosla's new TED Talk: 12 predictions for the future of technology. Was dope to co-host this session and see it live. TL;DR Techno-optimism with a heathy dose of empathy. 1. You don't have to choose between AI
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Society’s awakening to technological change and societal complacency
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I'm surprised at the scale of the response too. But I think the response on this topic goes hand in hand with a greater awakening to the situation we find ourselves in as a society, almost to our surprise how things developed while we got complacent.
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Automation’s Impact on Workers and Community Heritage
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Cashiers don't have a century- or millenia-long history, culture and community.