An oral history from 19 current and former natural language processing researchers of the past five years, including how LLMs and ChatGPT disrupted their fields
There was one about using BERT to unredact the Mueller report, which is a terrible idea. It seemed like there was just a never-ending supply … Bluesky: @markriedl , @coocho , @melaniemitchell , and @...
Current advanced LLMs from OpenAI and others have many flaws but they will, decades from now, be recognized as the first true examples of AGI, similar to ENIAC
Today's most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence. Mastodon: @rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf . X: @sh...
How LLMs are taught to reason, the downsides of “chain of thought”, how models might solve problems without reasoning, and evaluating LLMs for general reasoning
What should we believe about the reasoning abilities of today's large language models? X: @mattbeane , @rtk254 , @rodneyabrooks , and @piesaac X: Matt Beane / @mattbeane : VERY well written summary of...
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders warn ‘AI poses risk...
Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he would take Tesla private, but he may not be able to get out of the deal
Good morning! If you're looking to head to Bhutan anytime soon, we've got some news for you. Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : What's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter deal? Aryaansh Rathore / Mar...
NTSB sent a letter to the NHTSA asking for stricter standards on automated vehicle tech, citing Tesla's Level 2 Autopilot system tests as needing more oversight
comments are due by April 1st. https://www.regulations.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/... Lora Kolodny / @lorakolodny : NHTSA wants to hear from the public & experts on what should be the standards & ru...