I'd love to hear more opinions on generative AI from people who aren't confident writers
I feel like most of the commentary I see is from people who write with confidence - almost by definition, since writing confidently is an important prerequisite for widely broadcasting your opinions on things
@simon Generative Pre-trained Transformers #GPT and Large Language Models #LLM are useful tools, especially for those who are not, or no longer consider themselves, confident writers. I like open source tools, such eg from @huggingface that are transparent about their training sets and models — with the hope of understanding the biases and dangers of the tool. I don’t like calling any of these advanced computational statistics and machine learning #ML tools as “artificial intelligence” #AI
This is a really important point: From a business perspective, the goal of a Google AI is to make sure you never view primary sources on other web pages, only the chopped-and-processed information on Google's own site. #AI#Google
Here's the key text that I'm commenting on. And of course the motivation to obscure primary sources is hardly unique to Google. It's just especially potent in their case, since they are the default starting point for web searches.
All of the outrage over the redesigned Canadian passport is just more culture war bullshit, and our media is just feeeeeeeding into it. Tell me, how many times have you actually sat there and stared at the passport like it was some art book?
Seriously people, fuck right off with the bullshit that the rage farmers want to feed you.
The articles suggest that the redesign reflects a government that is self-hating, detached from the nation's identity, and focused on promoting a progressive agenda. They call for a better-designed passport that respects the country's history, heroes, and values. (2/2) #LLM#CanPoli#GPT4
A beautiful day in Boston, and in anticipation of getting my walking boot off next Friday (🤞) I tried walking a bit on a dirt path with no issue and listening to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! Also I found some wild asparagus, which was absolutely delicious. (1/9)
3/ The argument that the government has no resources to really understand #AI is also false.
The US gov, national labs, as well & major public universities have incredible levels of talent in AI.
All available to help craft regulations without capture.
It's also a familiar irony that an industry that has been mining public institutions for everyone with talent & trying to hire them away... is implying that there is no role for those institutions to play.
So, earlier today I wrote about how Google's Bard is in for a rude awakening because, according to their own researchers (now ex-googlers), large language models are impossible to secure
"Google Bard is a glorious reinvention of black-hat SEO spam and keyword-stuffing"
#LLMs "...can be #poisoned through their training data—both the data used in the initial training and fine-tuning...[it is possible to do] #KeywordManipulation and degrade output with 👉as few as a hundred toxic entries,👈..."
B/c: "... Large AI models are bound to be 👉dangerous👈. Their rushed deployment, especially at..."
One unexpected outcome of the rise of the #LLM#AI we're seeing today might be the death of #Search as the primary interface to the world wide web.
Not just for the obvious "AI is better" reason, but more fundamentally because whilst most sites were happy with the scraping of their data for search reasons, many are deeply uncomfortable with it being used for training.
I think robots.txt and noindex are blunt #tools right now.
Naomi Klein: „There is a world in which generative #ai … could indeed be marshalled to benefit humanity, other species and our shared home. But for that to happen, these technologies would need to be deployed inside a vastly different economic and social order than our own, one that had as its purpose the meeting of human needs and the protection of the planetary systems that support all life.“ #llm
Many believe the #AIAct will become the gold standard of #regulation around the globe, adopted by giants such as Google, Microsoft and #socialmedia companies.
“#AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history.”
You know that internal #Google memo leaked last week about open #LLMs, here's an example of one of its points. Lots of things happening in the open source #AI model space. I'm seeing something new every day.
“There is a world in which generative #AI, as a powerful predictive research tool and a performer of tedious tasks, could indeed be marshalled to benefit humanity, other species and our shared home. But for that to happen, these technologies would need to be deployed inside a vastly different economic and social order than our own” - Naomi Klein
Frankly, the term "prompt engineer" seems a bit misleading to me. It has little to do with engineering professions. It should rather be called "model whisperer" to emphasize the magical thinking and DIY aspect. #AI#ML#LLM
I'm understanding that the latest version of Google Bard uses some new kind of AI model called PaLM v2. How novel is this compared to what's currently powering tools like ChatGPT? How might it compare to LLaMa-based open-source work?
I think I read recently that a lot of the innovations in the AI space in the last decade or so came out of Google in some shape or form, but other companies productized the technology first. I wonder if Google's success with Bard might be due less to the underlying LLM technology and more to the breadth of other services that Google offers.
But I also heard they have a slimmer version of the Bard model that can run on mobile, called "Gecko"? That's potentially exciting.
What a wild time for technology, even if this is all statistical guessing behind the scenes.
“#EU lawmakers have been finalising the text of the #AI regulation ahead of the vote in the leading parliamentary committees on Thursday (11 May). The #AIAct is a landmark legislative proposal to regulate #ArtificialIntelligence based on its potential to cause harm.”
"It’s worth noting that companies like Google internally ban sending sensitive data to AI services. You should too — particularly if you deal with peoples’ personal information." Via Ben Werdmuller - @ben #AI#ArtificialIntelligence#LLM