Tag: LLMs
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Link: Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/which-ai-should-i-use-superpowers “Gemini is an excellent explainer but doesn’t let you upload files, GPT-4 has features (namely Code Interpreter and GPTs) that greatly extend what it can do, and Claude is the best writer and seems capable of surprising insight.”
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Link: A Robot the Size of the World
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/a-robot-the-size-of-the-world.html “This future requires us to see ourselves less as individuals, and more as parts of larger systems. It’s AI as nature, as Gaia—everything as one system. It’s a future more aligned with the Buddhist philosophy of interconnectedness than Western ideas of individuality. (And also with science-fiction dystopias, like Skynet from the Terminator movies.) It…
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Hallucinations aren’t a problem to be fixed
A few months ago I wrote a post explaining that language models don’t sometimes hallucinate; they always hallucinate. “…every single response is a creative endeavour. It just happens to be the case that most of the responses we get map onto our expectations; we compare the response against our (human) models of reality.” So I…
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My biased enthusiasm for generative AI, clearly articulated
I understand the serious ethical concerns many have raised about generative AI. These are important issues that deserve thoughtful debate. I believe that I know something about these concerns and I know the critical position I’m meant to take as an academic working at the intersection of education and technology. I’ve spent 15 years in…