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://
t.co/VbTjZ04ztj
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Twitter Algorithm Amplifies Extremists Over Moderate Voices
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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.
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Open Sourced GPT-4 Models Risk Unanticipated Good Bad Effects
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As a reminder, GPT-4 class models out-innovate and out-persuade the average human. An open sourced model of that power is going to lead to lots of unanticipated effects, good and bad.
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ChatGPT vocabulary bias traced to Nigerian RLHF annotation workers
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Love this theory by @alexhern that the reason ChatGPT uses words like "delve" a lot is that OpenAI outsource a lot of their RLHF annotation to workers in Nigeria, and Nigerian formal English has a slightly different vocabulary
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Transparency in Proprietary AI LLMs for Military Robotics Systems
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A reason why we need transparency in proprietary AI LLMs. It’s highly probable that these or similar robotic systems embedded with AI decision making capabilities will be deployed by the military within the next decade. Rigorous, independent testing on the #AI side would be a