site banner
magic9mushroom  If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me  3mo ago (thezvi.wordpress.com)   1802 thread views

Danger, AI Scientist, Danger

thezvi.wordpress.com

Zvi Mowshowitz reporting on an LLM exhibiting unprompted instrumental convergence. Figured this might be an update to some Mottizens.

9
Top Bottom Old Controversial Comments
Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

The blending of concepts that we see in MidJourney is probably less to do with the diffusion per se as with CLIP

Thanks! I'm not strong on diffusion model and multimodal models, I'll do some reading.

'Self play' is relevant for text generation. There is a substantial cottage industry in using LLMs to evaluate the output of LLMs and learn from the feedback. It can be easier to evaluate whether text 'is good' than it is to generate good text. So multiple attempts and variations can lead to feedback and improvement. Mostly self play to improve LLMs is done at the level of optimising prompts. However the outputs improved by that method can be used as training examples, and so can be used to update the underlying weights.

https://topologychat.com is a commercial example of using LLMs in a way inspired by chess programming (Leela, Stockfish). It does a form of self play on inputs that have been given to it, building up and prioritising different lines. It then uses these results to update weights in a mixture of experts model.

Again, thank you. I haven't come across this kind of self-play in the wild, but I see how it could work. Will investigate further.

That may be this sort of 20 different phenomena in 20 different fields that all have something in common. GPT-4 will be able to see that and we won’t. It’s gonna be the same in medicine. If you have a family doctor who’s seen a hundred million patients, they’re gonna start noticing things that a normal family doctor won’t notice."

This is exactly what I was hoping for from LLMs, but I haven't been able to make it happen so far in my experiments. GPT does seem to have some capacity for analogies, perhaps that's a fruitful line of investigation.

What is this place?

This website is a place for people who want to move past shady thinking and test their ideas in a court of people who don't all share the same biases. Our goal is to optimize for light, not heat; this is a group effort, and all commentators are asked to do their part.

The weekly Culture War threads host the most controversial topics and are the most visible aspect of The Motte. However, many other topics are appropriate here. We encourage people to post anything related to science, politics, or philosophy; if in doubt, post!

Check out The Vault for an archive of old quality posts. You are encouraged to crosspost these elsewhere.


Why are you called The Motte?

A motte is a stone keep on a raised earthwork common in early medieval fortifications. More pertinently, it's an element in a rhetorical move called a "Motte-and-Bailey", originally identified by philosopher Nicholas Shackel. It describes the tendency in discourse for people to move from a controversial but high value claim to a defensible but less exciting one upon any resistance to the former. He likens this to the medieval fortification, where a desirable land (the bailey) is abandoned when in danger for the more easily defended motte. In Shackel's words, "The Motte represents the defensible but undesired propositions to which one retreats when hard pressed."

On The Motte, always attempt to remain inside your defensible territory, even if you are not being pressed.


New post guidelines

If you're posting something that isn't related to the culture war, we encourage you to post a thread for it. A submission statement is highly appreciated, but isn't necessary for text posts or links to largely-text posts such as blogs or news articles; if we're unsure of the value of your post, we might remove it until you add a submission statement. A submission statement is required for non-text sources (videos, podcasts, images).

Culture war posts go in the culture war thread; all links must either include a submission statement or significant commentary. Bare links without those will be removed.

If in doubt, please post it!


Rules


Recommended Posts And Communities

Recommended Realtime Chats