My operational definition of magic is “write access to the fabric of reality”. Some people mean “something that cannot be done”. Neither interpretation makes sense?
ETHICS
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Understanding LLM Behavior: Why Experts Still Have Knowledge Gaps
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A reminder that even the best experts on LLMs don’t really understand all their behaviors (in this case, why AIs often seem a bit preachy & condescending). Lots left to learn.
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Google CEO Pichai Calls Gemini’s Responses on Race Politics Unacceptable
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"Google CEO Sundar Pichai told staff the generative artificial intelligence bot Gemini’s responses to user queries about race, politics, and current events were “completely unacceptable.” Washington Examiner bit.ly/3SWVwL8
→ View original post on X — @marktabnet, 2024-02-29 21:10 UTC
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Understanding Consistent Behavior Across Independent Language Models
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I’d love to understand this better too… I thought it was just a quirk of the specifics of labeling instructions, but then multiple (what I think should be mostly independent) language models seem to all do this.
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Politeness as Respect for Agency: Ethics in AI Interactions
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Politeness is the expression of respect for the integrity of the agency of another person, often in recognition of the practical difficulty to establish shared perspectives and goals. Recognizing boundaries is polite, lying is not.
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Scientific peer review limitations and methodological gatekeeping in research
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"this, but unironically" – scientists
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ChatGPT’s Lazy Period: Refusing Data Reformatting Tasks
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ChatGPT had a lazy period, where it sometimes would refuse user requests if they looked like too much work. For instance, when asked to reformat a bunch of tabular data into JSON, it would do the first row, and ask the user to do the rest by themselves
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Tech Engineers vs Ethics Specialists: AI Alignment Leadership Gap
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The tech nerds are mostly infuriated about what is being done to their products. Alignment/ethics/responsibility is done by specialists who usually have degrees in social sciences, but suffer from the de facto demise of the humanities in higher education.
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Corporate politeness as socially acceptable deception
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Yes, there is a kind of blankfaced corporate personality that thinks politeness is a form of socially appropriate lying
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LLM Insincerity: The Problem with AI Emotional Fakeness
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I hate it when LLMs are lying to me, starting with chatGPT saying that it is happy to help or Gemini saying that it appreciates my argument, indicating that they are tuned by people who are too insincere to understand true human connection and don’t appreciate arguments.