AI
Matt Ross and
AI
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
The community remains puzzled about whether these models genuinely generalize to unseen tasks, or seemingly succeed by memorizing the training data. This paper makes important strides in addressing this question. It constructs a suite of carefully designed counterfactual evaluations, providing fresh insights into the capabilities of... See more
Zhaofeng Wu • Reasoning skills of large language models are often overestimated
The irony is that I now know more than I ever would have before AI. But I feel slightly dumber. A bit more dull.
Dustin Curtis on Svbtle • Thoughts on Thinking
This whole post is very good. I don’t know whether Dustin is a canary or not, but he’s poking at some things I’ve been feeling to some degree.
By mistaking language as merely a tool that’s a means to an end—little different from a spatula—too many people have lost sight of the fact that understanding language provides the basis of smart thinking.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
Even the regulatory arena, where Altman publicly champions AI oversight, bears the fingerprints of double-dealing. While testifying in favor of federal regulation, OpenAI lobbied behind the scenes to weaken the EU AI Act and is now advocating for federal preemption of state AI safety laws in the US. Altman has called the very regulatory structure... See more
amuse • From Nonprofit to Nonsense: Is OpenAI a Long Con?
I’ve found that it pays to make journaling as “inconvenient” as possible. After I deleted Day One, I returned to writing in a physical journal, and that dramatically improved my mental health, critical thinking, time management, and memory. Multiple studies have shown that handwriting is better for memory retention and learning compared to typing.... See more
AI doesn’t belong in journaling
“Can machines be therapists?” is a question receiving increased attention given the relative ease of working with generative artificial intelligence. Although recent (and decades-old) research has found that humans struggle to tell the difference between responses from machines and humans, recent findings suggest that artificial intelligence can... See more
PLOS Mental Health
A weekend’s work to turn a podcast into a chatbot…the opportunities that are just beginning to emerge make my brain hurt. In the best possible way…