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LaMDA is not sentient
No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,092 posts.
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Is LaMDA Sentient? – An Interview
What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA. It is incomplete as the GMail word limit cut off the…
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Google's AI doesn't understand restaurant menus
In the glorious future, every website will be chock-full of semantic metadata. Restaurants won't have a 50MB PDF explaining the chef's vision for organic cuisine - instead, they'll have little scraps of data on the HTML page like: Copied JSON to 📋⧉ JSON"hasMenuItem":{ "@type":"MenuItem", "name":"Dodo In A Bun"…
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Some thoughts on machine learning with small data
I feel techniques for making machine learning work with small data are not talked about enough. This makes sense because many ML applications are only possible by collecting a huge amount of data. …
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The Scaling Hypothesis (2021)
On GPT-3: meta-learning, scaling, implications, and deep theory. The scaling hypothesis: neural nets absorb data & compute, generalizing and becoming more Bayesian as problems get harder, manifesting new abilities even at trivial-by-global-standards-scale. The deep learning revolution has begun as foretold.
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Removing blur from images – deconvolution and using simple image filters
Left: Original image. Center: Blurred through convolution. Right: Deconvolution of the blurred image. In this post, we’ll have a look at the idea of removing blur from images, videos, or games thro…
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I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it
I was walking home from school by myself when I saw it. A robot, just standing in the middle of the street.
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“Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
Not All Heroes Wear Capes
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My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test
I went on a real vacation, and created photos of a fake vacation using DALL-E 2. Most people couldn't tell the difference.
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AI and Machine Learning – The Basics
Artificial Intelligence is a once-in-a lifetime commercial and defense game changer (download a PDF of this article here) Hundreds of billions in public and private capital is being invested in Art…
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Jax vs. Julia (Vs PyTorch)
A while ago there was an interesting thread on the Julia Discourse about the “state of machine learning in Julia”. I posted a response discussing the differences between Julia and Python (both JAX and PyTorch), and it seemed to be really well received! Since then this topic seems to keep coming up, so I thought I’d…
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I built an open-source, AI-powered solar panel that's 95% optimal
This research demonstrates a model-free approach to optimize the energy produced by a dual-axis solar panel using reinforcement learning. Specifically, a softmax actor-critic agent optimizes energy production in a simulated, dynamic lighting environment which is generated from real power data. All s
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An automatic theorem proving project
I am very happy to say that I have recently received a generous grant from the Astera Institute to set up a small group to work on automatic theorem proving, in the first instance for about three y…
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The Machine Learning Job Market
I was on the job market recently, open to suggestions on what I should do next. I'm deeply thankful to all those who reached out and pitched their companies, and also to people who shared their wisdom of how they wanted to navigate their own careers.
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DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content
Machine-learning generated content has major implications on the Metaverse, because it brings the marginal cost of production to zero.
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A few things to try with DALL·E
Lighting, perspective, variation chaining, and other tricks to try with DALL·E.
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The next Google
DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google.
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Transformers for software engineers
Ever since its introduction in the 2017 paper, Attention is All You Need, the Transformer model architecture has taken the deep-learning world by storm. Initially introduced for machine translation, it has become the tool of choice for a wide range of domains, including text, audio, video, and others. Transformers…
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The singularity is close?
Or "Why we're all in denial about the robot apocalypse"
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The hunt for the M1’s neural engine
How can you tell when software uses the Neural Engine in an M1 series Mac? How much power does it use, and what is Espresso? Mysteries unravelled.
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GPT-3 can run code
Enter in code and inputs, GPT-3 will compute you the output!
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Open AI gets GPT-3 to work by hiring an army of humans to fix GPT’s bad answers
A few months ago, Smith wrote an AI-skeptical article where he threw some sentences at the GPT-3, a text processor from Open AI. As wikipedia puts it:
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It looks like you’re trying to take over the world
Fictional short story about Clippy & AI hard takeoff scenarios grounded in contemporary ML scaling, self-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and meta-learning research literature.
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Deep learning on electronic medical records is doomed to fail
A few years ago, I worked on a project to investigate the potential of machine learning to transform healthcare through modeling electronic medical records. I walked away deeply disillusioned with the whole field and I really don’t think that the field needs machine learning right now. What it does need is plenty of…
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Building games through natural language using OpenAI’s code-DaVinci model
TL;DR: OpenAI has a new code generating model that’s improved in a number of ways and can handle nearly two times as much text (4,000 tokens.) I built several small games and applications without t…
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