I don't remember word2vec trending on Twitter or being front page news. Or creating a billion dollar market. LLMs are the first big success story in their lineage.
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New Course Iteration: Advance in Foundation Models Released
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Stanford CS 324 Large Language Models Lecture Notes 2022
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Stanford CS 324 – Large Language Models – Lecture Notes 2022 A handy notes on various topics and techniques related to large language models. Notes are structured really well and there are pointers for recent/landmark papers in LLMs. https://
stanford-cs324.github.io/winter2022/lec
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Human BS Generation: A Social Game Beyond LLM Capability
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It's accurate that humans generate a lot of BS, and superficially that might sound like something you could do with a LLM… but when people do it, it's always as a tool (among others) in a social game that is completely out of reach for non-humans, and likely always will be.
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LLMs Can Only Automate Boilerplate Code Worth Eliminating
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The only kind of "BS" that can genuinely be automated with a LLM is… boilerplate. But here's the thing — boilerplate that can be automated away is also boilerplate that we could do away with altogether.
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Mistaking Surface Similarity for Job Automation
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The same is true of many other jobs where BS generation is at play. You see ChatGPT and think, "Hey ChatGPT can sound just like X. Guess we'll automate Xs next!" — but then you misunderstand what Xs are actually doing. You mistake the cover for the book.
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Open Assistant: Open-Source ChatGPT Alternative
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Open Assistant Open-source alternative to ChatGPT! GitHub: https://
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ChatGPT Struggles with Math Assignments According to WSJ
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A bit of irony
"It turns out #ChatGPT is quite bad at math" https://
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t-chatgpt-needs-some-help-with-math-assignments-11675390552?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
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Google AI Search Relaunch: More Natural and Intuitive Information Interaction
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Google presenting AI search February 8th from Paris: "We're reimagining how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before" YoutTube Event: (currently unlisted)
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Nvidia’s Megatron Language Model: Foundational AI Research
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Nvidia released the megatron language model before the pandemic. It’s amazing how influential this paper became. A must read for people wanting to learn about AI.