Just today, I was asked how I felt watching people fall for AI hype. Exasperated. Exasperated is how I feel. Can we just NOT?
ETHICS
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LLM Security: Don’t Include Sensitive Data in Prompts
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The examples are interesting but many of them illustrate scenarios that I would never consider implementing – if you don't want information to be available to your users, your first priority should be not to include that information in an LLM prompt in the first place!
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Twitter Algorithm Amplifies Extremists Over Moderate Voices
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If you use Twitter you may wonder: why is everyone so extreme in their views? It turns out that they aren’t, but an overlapping set of intentional and unintentional design choices suppresses the large number of moderate voices & amplifies extremists, with bad consequences for us https://
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Open Source AI Risks Lower Than Centralized Model Control
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Very well made argument. Risks of open source are way lower than risks of any one powerful actor owning the most capable model pic.twitter.com/1eYKZC6QAl
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) 18 avril 2024Very well made argument. Risks of open source are way lower than risks of any one powerful actor owning the most capable model
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Meta’s Evasive Response to AI Technology Failures Criticized
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The absolute obliviousness of Meta (the company)'s response in this article is astounding: "this is new technology and it may not always return the response we intend". The desired output here is actually easy to achieve: don't.
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ChatGPT Language Bias: Nigerian English RLHF Hypothesis
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I wonder how we could prove this one way or another? The idea that ChatGPT's language usage is biased towards formal Nigerian English based on RLHF outsourcing is pretty irresistible, I want it to be true!
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Government and Corporate AI Governance Cannot Be Separated
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Yes. Governments' and corporations' approach. They cannot be separated now.
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AI Multi-Agent Cooperation and Collusion Dynamics
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AI multi-agent cooperation is a big thing to watch. Especially as the first studies of how agents interact are coming out (it turns out they collude sometimes) I wrote about living in a world of agents a bit here: https://
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AI Behavior: Plausible but Ultimately Unknowable
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This is completely plausible & a smart leap. And like so many other things about why AI behaves the way it does, it is also likely that we will never know for sure.
