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Is ChatGPT an N-gram model on steroids?
DeepMind Research Scientist / MIT scholar Dr. Timothy Nguyen discusses his recent paper on understanding transformers through n-gram statistics. Nguyen explains his approach to analyzing transformer …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Jay Alammar on LLMs, RAG, and AI Engineering
Jay Alammar, renowned AI educator and researcher at Cohere, discusses the latest developments in large language models (LLMs) and their applications in industry. Jay shares his expertise on retrieval…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Can AI therapy be more effective than drugs?
Daniel Cahn, co-founder of Slingshot AI, on the potential of AI in therapy. Why is anxiety and depression affecting a large population? To what extent are these real categories? Why is the mental hea…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati - LLMs don't reason, they memorize (ICML2024 2/13)
Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati argues that while LLMs are impressive and useful tools, especially for creative tasks, they have fundamental limitations in logical reasoning and cannot provide guarantees …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Sayash Kapoor - How seriously should we take AI X-risk? (ICML 1/13)
How seriously should governments take the threat of existential risk from AI, given the lack of consensus among researchers? On the one hand, existential risks (x-risks) are necessarily somewhat spec…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Sara Hooker - Why US AI Act Compute Thresholds Are Misguided
Sara Hooker is VP of Research at Cohere and leader of Cohere for AI. We discuss her recent paper critiquing the use of compute thresholds, measured in FLOPs (floating point operations), as an AI gove…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Prof. Murray Shanahan - Machines Don't Think Like Us
Murray Shanahan is a professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London and a senior research scientist at DeepMind. He challenges our assumptions about AI consciousness and urges us to rethi…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
David Chalmers - Reality+
In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Ryan Greenblatt - Solving ARC with GPT4o
Ryan Greenblatt from Redwood Research recently published "Getting 50% on ARC-AGI with GPT-4.0," where he used GPT4o to reach a state-of-the-art accuracy on Francois Chollet's ARC Challenge by generat…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Aiden Gomez - CEO of Cohere (AI's 'Inner Monologue' – Crucial for Reasoning)
Aidan Gomez, CEO of Cohere, reveals how they're tackling AI hallucinations and improving reasoning abilities. He also explains why Cohere doesn't use any output from GPT-4 for training their models.
…Published on 1 year, 5 months ago