patalt, 20 days ago

Our position paper "Against Spurious Sparks − Dovelating Inflated AI Claims" has been accepted @ICMLConf 🥳

We question the idea that finding patterns in latent embeddings of models is indicative of AGI or even surprising and back this position through extensive experiments.

📜 pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03962
:julia: code: https://github.com/pat-alt/spurious_sentience

Had a blast working on this with Andrew M. Demetriou, Antony Bartlett and @cynthiacsliem and very happy we've found such a great venue for it.