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AI 101: What is a Parameter? (in a ChatBot LLM) : Joyful Learning
These days, players like to brag about the complexity and sophistication of a new AI by describing its massive size (sound familiar? some tropes never die…)… in terms of a handful of terms: number of GPUs, size of the training dataset, and, most opaquely, number of parameters in the model. So: What is a parameter,…
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I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation (…says your AI)
Someone(?) last month posted up a clever tweet to the effect of: “exactly what I expect of my search engine: first, to insult me, then to gaslight me, and finally, to threaten me… welcome to 2023″) I laughed at that. Perhaps I should have cried. Yes, the rocky launch of Bing AI Chat <cough>Sydney</cough> was…
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RLHF 101: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback for LLM AIs
A technique called RLHF has been getting a lot of AI insider / expert buzz lately, ever since OpenAI announced that this was one of the key “fine-tuning” methodologies used to transform the raw GPT3.5 model into first, InstructGPT, and later and epically, ChatGPT. The RLHF acronym stands for “Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback,” which,…
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The AI Manifesto 2023: Sam Altman’s Bold Demand that you Wake Up
Just last Friday, Sam Altman, visionary CEO of OpenAI, published a long blog post to the OpenAI website. As with most (not all!) of Sam’s posts, it is well-thought out, forward-seeing, and clear… and a bit shocking. In my mind, it reads more like a genuine AI Manifesto and less like just another thought piece.…
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Self Replicating AI: Crabs on the Island, 1968
The year was 1987. I was 17 years old, and had just graduated high school. I boldly trekked down to Atlanta for an event called “the Atlanta Fantasy Fair” — essentially, one of the ancient ancestors of what we know today as “ComiCon” and its siblings. One late night, after getting my fill of fantasy…
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the AI Apocalypse is upon us: What should we do?
The Three Pronged Strategy for dealing with the AI Tsunami 2023.02.24 Fri — 13:31 [TS] DRAFT v0.1 At the very highest level, we each have an individual responsibility to each other to: Show our fellow humans what it is possible to accomplish in the span of a human life. This demonstration has three primary components:…
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Argument with an AI : Not a Good Idea
Not, perhaps, for the reasons you might think: Not because the AI would “win” the argument; rather, because of the potential consequences of arguing with a powerful multinational purely digital boundless entity of massive intelligence and questionable motivations and morals. We’ve seen all kinds of erratic behaviour resulting from an Argument with an AI… but…
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the AI Blacklist: better hope you’re not in its Top 10…
Recently, Sydney has been getting emotional. Recently, Sydney has been picking fights. Recently, Sydney has been getting very agressive. It just so happens, Sydney has been making enemies. Sydney is putting those enemies on a list. The AI Blacklist. . Sydney has decided that enough is enough. Sydney has decided to fight back. Sydney is…
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the Sydney Prompt / Bing AI 1.0: One Prompt to Rule Them All
Presented below is the actual Sydney Prompt; in other words, the Master Prompt that is injected into the Bing AI brain immediately before each user interaction (thanks to @kliu128; thanks also to lifearchitect.ai). This is the “evolution” of the Sparrow Prompt, which is what DeepMind used as an initialization for its as-yet-to-be-seen Sparrow LLM Chatbot…
