I had the impression that this was one of the reasons OpenAI's training cutoff stayed stuck at September 2021 for so long – but clearly that concern is no longer limiting them, their most recent GPT-4 Turbo has a cutoff date of December 2023
GENERATIVE AI
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AI Challenges to Academic Essays and University Admissions
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Deleted a thread on how admissions essays are no longer useful as it was being interpreted as an attack on essays in all contexts, and writing instructors were getting upset (which, if that is what I meant, I would get) There are lots of challenges poised by AI to essays, though
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Major LLM Organizations Publishing on Model Collapse Risk
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Have any of the large scale LLM training organizations – Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, the Llama team – published anything notable about this idea of "model collapse" yet – the worry that LLM quality will drop as their training data becomes pollinated by model output?
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Writing Teachers React to AI and College Admission Essays Context
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I was trying to figure out why many writing teachers seemed so annoyed at this tweet and realized they weren’t reading the context. I am clearly referring to college admissions essays. Sigh. I think I need to delete this.
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AI Impact on College Admission Essays and Education
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ADMISSIONS essays are dead, geez. I don’t claim to be an expert on writing education. Pretty harsh.
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Competing AI Model Progress Charts: GPT Future Outlook
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Dueling charts on the future of AI. A lot depends on the trend line The first, by @GaryMarcus
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GPT-4 Agent Learns Red Dead Redemption 2 Gameplay
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This experiment built a GPT-4 powered agent to play Red Dead Redemption 2, learning the gameplay from the initial tutorials. It does pretty well on the first couple of missions, the main limitation seems to be the GPT-4V vision system, which can struggle to understand everything
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Using DSPy Without Building Evaluations: A Learning Curve Challenge
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Can you use DSPy without building evals? Because building evals is an enormous learning curve for most people (myself included)
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Data AI Summit Early Bird Registration Discount Ends April 30
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Early bird catches the worm Save $400 by registering for #DataAISummit before April 30! You’ll explore the latest advances in #ApacheSpark, Delta Lake, MLflow, LangChain, PyTorch, dbt, and more: https://
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AI Capabilities and Limitations: Critics Must Engage Directly
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This isn't intended to be snarky, there are lots of things AI does terribly, by the way. But I have often been surprised by the things it does very well. We need more critics to actually engage with these systems so everyone can learn more about them.