“I am sorry, I am not going to be able to simply talk about research. I just learned that my tenure case was denied.” He looked at me & said instantly: “But if your case had been approved, who in the senior faculty would have won?” He understood the game.

And this is the road between Bucha and Irpin. Part of my usual bike route in the Kyiv region. Today it is a Russian Death Valley.

"in order to use a model for something useful, we need to understand how it works" --> no, we don't. we use humans (and birds, and dogs...) without knowing how they work. understanding how models work is very interesting and very important. but we can certainly use them without.

One request for “AI ethics” folks: please stop writing papers with sensational/provocative titles. I know the rest of AI community does it too, but you all are into “ethics” so we should expect better. A lot of grief can be saved with sober titles.

An Undo button is what ⁦Elon Musk⁩ lacks nytimes.com/2022/07/08/tec…

#tvtalk parlate della puntata di #StaseraCeCattelan scritta dall’#AI .

Join me for a seminar in the AI Excellence Lecture Series, tomorrow 14/3/2023 at 5 PM on: Are Large Language Models All You Need? i-aida.org/events/large-l…

🎉 GPT-4 is out!! - 📈 it is incredible - 👀 it is multimodal (can see) - 😮 it is on trend w.r.t. scaling laws - 🔥 it is deployed on ChatGPT Plus: chat.openai.com - 📺 watch the developer demo livestream at 1pm: youtube.com/live/outcGtbnM…

Next frontier of prompt engineering imo: "AutoGPTs" . 1 GPT call is just like 1 instruction on a computer. They can be strung together into programs. Use prompt to define I/O device and tool specs, define the cognitive loop, page data in and out of context window, .run().

Yann LeCun and I have thought a lot about the proposed 6 month AI pause, and plan to chat about it on Friday - the questions it raises for AI and its impact on developers and companies. Please join Yann LeCun and me for the conversation! RSVP here: 6monthAIpause.eventbrite.com

The LLaMA suite of large language models (LLMs) led to a surge in publications on the topic of open-source LLMs. Many of these works adopted an imitation approach, in which less powerful LLMs were fine-tuned on ChatGPT dialogues. These imitation models seemed to perform

The #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their "discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19" More to follow

FINALLY: AI xrisker Nick Bostrom regrets focusing on AI risk, now worries that our fearful herd mentality will drive us to crush AI and destroy our future potential. (from an UnHerd podcast today) Nick Bostrom: It would be tragic if we never developed advanced artificial

r1 is an AI assistant that can learn how to perform complex tasks for you, overcoming the idiosynchrasies of current GUI: rabbit.tech/keynote

My takeaways from attending WEF at Davos last week: - There were lots of discussions on business implementation of AI. My top two tips: (i) Pretty much all knowledge workers can benefit from using GenAI now, but most will need training. (ii) Task-based analysis of jobs is helping

I share Andrew Ng's serious concerns with much of the open-source and broader AI community about California’s SB-1047 proposal. Among many issues, the covered models definitions, shutdown capability, and enormous cost for compliance would be a huge blow to both CA and US

We should call models like Llama 3, Mixtral, etc. “open-weight models”, not “open-source models”. For a model to be open-source, the code and training data need to be public (good examples: GPT-J, OLMo, RedPajama, StarCoder, K2, etc.). Weights are like an exe file, which would be

“There is a 50-50 chance AI will get more intelligent than humans in the next 20 years. We’ve never had to deal with things more intelligent than us. And we should be very uncertain about what it will look like.” ~ Geoffrey Hinton

Today, I’m excited to share with you all the fruit of our effort at OpenAI to create AI models capable of truly general reasoning: OpenAI's new o1 model series! (aka 🍓) Let me explain 🧵 1/