Grateful for the folks within companies that are training LLMs who keep pushing for training data transparency despite pushback (you know who you are)🤗
So NIST appoints straight up TESCREAL doomer Paul Christiano as "AI safety head" of the "US AI Safety Institute"???? Wonderful news!
Endnote 102 from our paper: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…
About 15% of all Stanford undergrads (of all majors) are learning how to build LLMs. Stats for @chrmanning's CS224N Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning below.
That makes sense. LLM's are becoming a basic systems component like compute, networking and storage.
Spent a good chunk of today reading through @restofworld's AI elections tracker, which documents how AI is influencing elections. Very good use of my time. Recommend.
Spent a good chunk of today reading through @restofworld's AI elections tracker, which documents how AI is influencing elections. Very good use of my time. Recommend.
Great to see colleague @robreich going into public service! U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Announces Expansion of U.S. AI Safety Institute Leadership Team ↘️ commerce.gov/news/press-rel…
Friends, I'm happy to announce that my paper with Dr. Émile P. Torres (@xriskology), The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, is finally out on this issue of First Monday.
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…
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I'm ecstatic to share that preorders are now open for the AI Snake Oil book! The book will be released on September 24, 2024.
@random_walker and I have been working on this for the past two years, and we can't wait to share it with the world.
Preorder: princeton.press/awecv19z
Why would any company release a strong LLM for free?
This is @ServiceNow (mkt cap ~$160Bn) stock price since the release of StarCoder. Only required a small amount of compute and a handful of people while building up a lot of valuable know-how fast.
It's not a zero-sum game!
If this were a science paper, you would expect a country that picks its science workforce at random as a “weak baseline” and a leading nation like the US to actively experiment towards state-of-the-art, or at least beat the baseline.
Not providing a guaranteed path for…
If this were a science paper, you would expect a country that picks its science workforce at random as a “weak baseline” and a leading nation like the US to actively experiment towards state-of-the-art, or at least beat the baseline.
Not providing a guaranteed path for…
Technologists often ask, “How can we replace humans doing existing tasks?”
But they should ask, “What entirely new thing can we now do that we’ve never done before?”
From my piece for the @AEI "Beyond the Turing Test: Harnessing AI to Create Widely Shared Prosperity."…
“HAI was the first institution in the public sector that was set up devoted not only to AI innovation, but also to engaging policy, industry, and civil society to ensure this technology is developed with humans at the center,” says @drfeifei. stanford.io/3TT5SNS
Big investments happen due to: ① clear breakthrough results (AlexNet), ② crisis (atom bomb), ③ politics (@CycorpAI).
Otherwise small studies bubble along; that was all of probabilistic AI, neural nets, diffusion models & mRNA vaccines. Neurosymbolic AI so far fails all three.
Big investments happen due to: ① clear breakthrough results (AlexNet), ② crisis (atom bomb), ③ politics (@CycorpAI).
Otherwise small studies bubble along; that was all of probabilistic AI, neural nets, diffusion models & mRNA vaccines. Neurosymbolic AI so far fails all three.
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