This post is a follow-up to yesterday’s essay, and relates to an ongoing discussion between Scott Alexander and Gary Marcus on the topic of AI scaling (post1, post2, post3, post4). Specifically, the debate is whether scaled-up language models in the style of GPT-3 will eventually become general intelligences, or whether...| jacobbuckman.com
This week, I was thrilled to read about the first well-documented case of explicit academic fraud in the artificial intelligence community. I hope that this is the beginning of a trend, and that other researchers will be inspired by their example and follow up by engaging in even more blatant...| jacobbuckman.com