Yeah, unfortunate that this technique has such a bad taste due to politicians abusing it. It’s really interesting and useful. Last year’s starter course had a big impact on my life.
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ChatGPT suggests Biden for US wellbeing vote
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So if you ask ChatGPT who to vote for the sake of US wellbeing.. It’s Biden.
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AI Automation Frees Humans for Creative Pursuits
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Don’t worry y’all. AI will do your laundry and your dishes, so that you can do your art and writing — not just the other way round. Fighting the train of progress is a losing battle. Steering it in a desirable direction is the more productive choice.
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ChatGPT’s Hallucinations and Narcissism Problem
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It's me, hi
I'm the problem, it's me, ChatGPT Hallucinations, everybody agrees Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as erudition? I'm the problem, it's me, ChatGPT -
GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Emotional Reappraisal Tasks
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GPT-4 helped reappraise a difficult emotional situation better than 85% of humans, beating human advice-givers on the effectiveness, novelty, and empathy of their reappraisal. Paying humans to do better did not change the results.
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Output Mimicry vs Process Understanding in AI Systems
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once upon a time, one could have said the same thing (“they mimic us so well, so they are the best model we have”) about photocopiers or video cameras. mimicking output is not the same as mimicking underlying process.
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Chatlighting in LLMs: RLHF’s Role in Obsequious Responses
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Question. Suppose we call the kind of unrepetant boot-licking (“I apologize for the error”) that LLMs often do “chatlighting” (h/t @Dolimac
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ChatGPT Voice Hallucinations from Background Noise Fragments
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It's quite fun leaving ChatGPT Voice running and later seeing how it hallucinated increasingly weird fragments of conversation based on snippets of background noise
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Default Settings Change: Yes to No Paradigm Shift
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I think changing default to no instead of yes is the biggest change one can do.
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Claude generates false information based on conversational context
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Claude doesn’t know that it lies it just says stuff based on conversational context, like when MetaAI claimed to have a child.