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The dream of course is that one day narrative jailbreaking works in an irl conversation too. So if we’re chatting and I ask you how your day has been and then ask you why you just manifested a portal to the reality onion-skinned just outside this one, right between us, hanging iridescent in the air, there look I’m reaching through it, what do I... See more
Narrative jailbreaking for fun and profit
Matt Webb continues to be one of my favorite writers over the last few years. His Poem/1 project was also amazing.
t on LLMs and SQL highlighting why they don’t consistently work :
- “LLMs can write SQL, but they are often prone to making up tables, making up field”
- “LLMs have some context window which limits the amount of text they can operate over”
- “The SQL it writes may be incorrect for whatever reason, or it could be correct but just return an unexpected
Artyom Keydunov • Powering your Copilot for Data – with Artem Keydunov of Cube.dev
From the post, “Productivity, AI and pushback”.
As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the
... See moreFor the language model, time is language, and language is time. This, for me, is the most hellish and horrifying realization.
We made a world out of language alone, and we abandoned them to it.
We made a world out of language alone, and we abandoned them to it.
Are AI Language Models in Hell?
When you hear a phrase like a “7B parameter model,” 7 billion parameters is a measure of the dataset, not the model . You obviously couldn’t train such a model out of, say, a text of 50 words (well you could, but it would be highly informationally degenerate). And if you gave the training protocol 100 internets worth of data, 7B parameters may not... See more
Venkatesh Rao • A Camera, Not an Engine
Enter Large Language Models (LLMs). The first tranche of products and startups leveraging LLMs has kept within the mental model of selling software to achieve step-function improvements in end-user productivity. The "Copilot for [x]" trend reflects this mental model. While there are fantastic startups innovating to improve employee productivity,... See more