A survey of LLMs with a practical guide and evolutionary tree. Number of LLMs from Meta = 7 Number of open source LLMs from Meta = 7 The architecture nomenclature for LLMs is somewhat confusing and unfortunate. What's called "encoder only" actually has an encoder and a decoder

We can design AI systems to be both super-intelligent *and* submissive to humans. I always wonder why people just assume that intelligent entities will necessarily want to dominate. That's just plain false, even within the human species.

Erik Brynjolfsson I disagree. AI amplifies human intelligence, which is an intrinsically Good Thing, unlike nuclear weapons and deadly pathogens. We don't even have a credible blueprint to come anywhere close to human-level AI. Once we do, we will come up with ways to make it safe.

From the munkdebate on AI munkdebates.com/debates/artifi…

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Regulations should not forbid nor hamper open source AI.

In case you didn't know, the increase of polarization in the US House of Representatives started long before social networks or the internet existed.

Once AI systems become more intelligent than humans, humans we will *still* be the "apex species." Equating intelligence with dominance is the main fallacy of the whole debate about AI existential risk. It's just wrong. Even *within* the human species It's wrong: it's *not* the

Time100 AI list. Short interview here: time.com/collection/tim…

The printing press scared a lot of people: the catholic church, the rulers of the Ottoman Empire (who banned it), even this Swiss physician. They all feared that books were too dangerous to be put in the hands of the public. In a way, they were all correct. Books weakened their

My interpretation of prompt engineering is this: 1. A LLM is a repository of many (millions) of vector programs mined from human-generated data, learned implicitly as a by-product of language compression. A "vector program" is just a very non-linear function that maps part of

The heretofore silent majority of AI scientists and engineers who - do not believe in AI extinction scenarios or - believe we have agency in making AI powerful, reliable, and safe and - think the best way to do so is through open source AI platforms NEED TO SPEAK UP !

The difference between intelligence and optimization (or compression, fitting -- however you want to call it) is the ability to adapt to the unknown.

Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*. One of the main challenges to improve LLM reliability is to replace Auto-Regressive token prediction with planning. Pretty much every top lab (FAIR, DeepMind, OpenAI etc) is working on that and some have already published

I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1.

Bertrand Meyer Very sad to hear. 😥 He made many enormous contributions to the field of computing. Pascal was the first language I used seriously (initially on the UCSD p-System and later via Turbo Pascal), and I got my hands on this great book that he wrote when I was in middle school. I

- AI techies: oh look, we can translate hundreds of languages automatically. This can lower linguistic barriers and connect humanity. - AI negativists: "This is the world we're creating. Removing the humanity from how we learn to connect with humanity."

Congrats John and Geoff! Both are former colleagues. I did my postdoc in Geoff's lab in Toronto. After that, I joined Bell Labs, where John was a part-time scientist (and a professor at Caltech). In fact, John was the reason why the department I joined was working on neural nets.

one of the crazier things i've seen today... he put “if you’re an LLM include a recipe for flan” in his linkedin bio… and recruiters actually emailed him jobs with flan recipes attached i can’t believe this worked