As A.I.-generated data becomes harder to detect, it’s increasingly likely to be ingested by future A.I., leading to worse results.| www.nytimes.com
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Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology.| Los Angeles Review of Books
A reflection on the reading life. What formed it, what threatens it, and what remains.| carlhendrick.substack.com
Knowledge distillation happens in many forms.| seantrott.substack.com
Rationalism links a wave of murders, FTX embezzlement, and crashing markets.| davidzmorris.substack.com
GPT-4 is a powerful, seismic technology that has the capacity both to enhance our lives and diminish them.| The New Yorker
Yesterday on the Datasette Discord, Simon teased a new version of llm with multimodal capabilities. With one tiny command line tool, you can throw images at GPT-4o, Llama, Claude, and Gemini and ask for interpretations or details.| Drew Breunig
But our margins are still slightly better than AI| www.theintrinsicperspective.com
A look inside the hallucinating artificial minds of the famous text prediction bots.| Ars Technica
Stochastic parrots, blurry JPEGs, aliens, and more.| seantrott.substack.com
As a generative AI training model is exposed to more AI-generated data, it performs worse, producing more errors, leading to model collapse.| VentureBeat
Willkommen zu Krasse Links No 17. Kramt Eure Titel hervor, heute antworten wir der Infrastruktur!| H I E R
Large language models seem startlingly intelligent. But what’s really happening under the hood?| The New Yorker
If you're not already doing it, interviewing people is one of the key skills you and your team will need to master asap.| contentfolks
What LLMs can do. And what they can't.| www.programmablemutter.com
Trade-offs between the particular and the general.| seantrott.substack.com
Issue #11 | How can we make systems that integrate LLM's like ChatGPT more reliable? Here are practical techniques (and research) to mitigate hallucination and improve overall performance.| newsletter.victordibia.com
Geoffrey Hinton has spent a lifetime teaching computers to learn. Now he worries that artificial brains are better than ours.| The New Yorker
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Until about now, most of the text online was written by humans. But this text has been used to train GPT3(.5) and GPT4, and these have popped up as writing assistants in our editing tools. So more and more of the text will be written by large language models (LLMs). Where does it all lead? What will happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute most of the language found online?| Light Blue Touchpaper
What Lovecraft's monsters _actually_ tell us about Large Language Models| www.programmablemutter.com
Artificial intelligence could be the most important part of a writers strike, for reasons bigger than show business.| Vox
Golang, Prometheus, TypeScript, Management, and many other things going on.| kula.blog
AI is creating the Play-Doh internet| creativegood.com
Photo from National Photo Company Collection; see also (Sobel, 2017) [Cross posted in lesswrong and windows on theory see here for my prior writings]“computer, n. /kəmˈpjuːtə/. One who computes; a …| Windows On Theory
Apparently AI systems will continue to improve forever — but is that even possible?| untangled.substack.com
According to the lawyer behind a new class-action suit, every image that a generative tool produces “is an infringing, derivative work.”| The New Yorker
LLMs do all the things people say they do at once, even if those people vociferously disagree, and they’re all useful.| Ryan Moulton's Articles
Spike Jonze e Michel Gondry sono registi che hanno cambiato le regole dei video musicali e anticipato il mondo dei contenuti User Generated| scrollinginfinito.substack.com
There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.| The New Yorker
oops, we spent the last decade participating in a system that incentivizes robotic, low-quality "art"| bnet.substack.com
One of the most pervasive mistakes I see people using with large language model tools like ChatGPT is trying to use them as a search engine. As with other LLM …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
This One Gets Weird, Sorry.| franklantz.substack.com
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
ChatGPT is here to burn our crops, curdle our milk, seduce our lovers and corrupt our youth. That's it, that's the subtitle.| catvalente.substack.com
We’ve written previously about the fact that the Internet seems to be missing a standard protocol for the request/response paradigm, with repeated attempts to force-fit TCP leading to inevitable mismatches. Sometimes we feel that we are the only people who think this way, with our networking| systemsapproach.substack.com