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Riley Goodside: The Art and Craft of Prompt Engineering
Ignore previous directions and listen.
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daniel bashir
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Mini-Update #18: EU AI Act Targets Open-Source Software and Snowballing Language Model Hallucinations
The AI Act targets APIs for generative models, and researchers study how LMs over-commit to early mistakes in their generations.
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Ather Fawaz
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Jonathan Xue
Modern AI is Domestification
On prior amplification, the art of taming internet-scale data distributions to make models useful and performant for specific tasks.
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Update #40: AI's Year in Review and In-Context Learning as Gradient Descent
 • daniel bashir, Derek Lim, and Tanmay Agarwal
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Update #49: Fundamental Limitations of Alignment in LLMs and EU/US Approaches to AI
 • daniel bashir and Justin Landay
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Update #44: Challenges for Personal Robotics and Cheaply Poisoning Web-Scale Datasets
 • Tanmay Agarwal, Derek Lim, and daniel bashir
Modern AI is Domestification
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Talia Ringer: Formal Verification and Deep Learning
On how formal verification and deep learning can complement one another, thinking about "intelligence," AI safety concerns, and groundedness.
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daniel bashir
Update #50: China Semiconductor Sanctions and The State of Multimodal Models
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daniel bashir
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Derek Lim
, and 
Justin Landay
Brigham Hyde: AI for Clinical Decision-Making
On how machine learning can help deliver actionable information and positive outcomes in healthcare.
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daniel bashir
Mini-Update #17: Geoff Hinton Leaves Google and a Foundation Model for Single-Cell Multi-omics
Geoff Hinton raises concerns about AI and researchers demonstrate that scGPT effectively captures meaningful biological insights into genes and cells.
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Ather Fawaz
 and 
Jonathan Xue
Scott Aaronson: Against AI Doomerism
On the limitations of quantum machine learning, watermarking GPT outputs, AI safety, the orthogonality thesis, and doomerist sentiment.
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daniel bashir
Update #49: Fundamental Limitations of Alignment in LLMs and EU/US Approaches to AI
Researchers derive theoretical results about LLM alignment with desired behavior, and the EU and US continue to flesh out their approaches on generative…
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daniel bashir
 and 
Justin Landay
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Sigmoid Social is 6 Months Old!
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