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[What follows are my thoughts on some recent research in machine learning privacy. These are my thoughts, and do not represent those of others.]
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[What follows are my thoughts on some recent research in machine learning privacy. These are my thoughts, and do not represent those of others.]
I don't think that AI models (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped. In this post I will list 50 ways I've used them.
This program is a dependency-free implementation of GPT-2, including byte-pair encoding and transformer inference, in ~3000 bytes of C. I then use this to create something like Chat GPT.
Figure from our paper: given any waveform, we can modify it slightly to produce another (similar) waveform that transcribes as any different target phrase.