Links for 2023-01-22
The beginning of an AI arms race? Google to relax AI safety rules to compete with OpenAI [The New York Times] https://archive.is/zTDp2 [“Nothing else Elon Musk has done can possibly make up for how hard the "OpenAI" launch trashed humanity's chances of survival…” — Eliezer Yudkowsky]
Transcript of Sam Altman's interview touching on AI safety https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PTzsEQXkCfig9A6AS/transcript-of-sam-altman-s-interview-touching-on-ai-safety
Conversational Agent using GPT-3.5 & LangChain: “It adds functionalities to GPT-3(.5?) & takes it to a whole new level. When necessary, it leverages tools for complex math, searching the internet, and accessing news and weather.” https://huggingface.co/spaces/JavaFXpert/Chat-GPT-LangChain [note: you can get your OpenAI API key here https://beta.openai.com/account/api-keys]
How Close is ChatGPT to Human Experts? Comparison Corpus, Evaluation, and Detection https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07597
Big review/position piece on the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) from the cognitive science perspective. — “…we argue that the word-in-context prediction objective is not enough to master human thought…” https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627
How honey bees make fast and accurate decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.02.522517v1.full
Facing the Facts About Test Score Gaps: “I review a diverse collection of research findings on differences in average intelligence test scores across socially-defined racial groups…” https://psyarxiv.com/863cv
“YouTubers said they destroyed over 100 VHS tapes of an obscure 1987 movie to increase the value of their final copy. They sold it on eBay for $80,600.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/youtubers-said-destroyed-over-100-202057472.html
“World famous track cyclist Robert Förstemann battles a 700w toaster. Can he, with his 74cm legs, generate enough energy to create a golden-brown toast?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ
“Inside El Salvador’s brutal gang crackdown: Bukele's violation of human rights is winning votes” https://unherd.com/2023/01/inside-el-salvadors-brutal-gang-crackdown/
“…this leads us to our next big learning from this study, which is that behavior change is incredibly hard! About 30 scientists who study behavior change worked to develop more than 50 interventions, and at most, 4 of them meaningfully beat the baseline!” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1614012808051425280.html