juan M

A few pointers to interesting reads regarding LLMs (the engines that power chatGPT, new Bing, Bard -to be launched-), some from today, some from a few days ago

• A thread I quoted in my own timeline, from Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft Exec behind some Windows and Office (he has a very interesting blog/newsletter turned book in Substack about his experience there in Hardcore Software)

Amazing thread exploring a set of key issues that will emerge in the coming weeks related to LLMs (chatGPT, new Bing, etc.) https://t.co/d2unBKjj5f

— Juan M (@juan_m12i) February 14, 2023

https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1625622970575224836

• A skeptic thread, reposted by François Chollet, among others:

Maybe generating plausible-sounding text and retrieving factual information are indeed two distinct problems after all 🤔 https://t.co/QndEbqEQDX

— François Chollet (@fchollet) February 13, 2023

• (in Spanish) Javi Lopez, a Spanish divulgator having fun with new Bing. Jus posting one tweet, but he has posted several threads during the day

Locurón. pic.twitter.com/z1gIwAPOi0

— Javi López ⛩️ (@javilop) February 14, 2023

• An apparent leak of new Bing’s internal code name (“Sydney”) and its rules:

The entire prompt of Microsoft Bing Chat?! (Hi, Sydney.) pic.twitter.com/ZNywWV9MNB

— Kevin Liu (@kliu128) February 9, 2023

• A spooky revelation by an Open AI staffer

With the InstructGPT paper we found that our models generalized to follow instructions in non-English even though we almost exclusively trained on English.

We still don't know why.

I wish someone would figure this out.

— Jan Leike (@janleike) February 13, 2023

• Ben Evans being Ben Evans, and Bing showing some problematic behaviour

https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1625348902789545987

• Short thread from Ben Evans

https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1624797314916155393?s=20&t=Zr2jeUb8EnGEZD9M0LDPBQ

• A few days old thread from Ben Evans on the apparent threat to search from LLMs

https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1623697381094047745?s=20&t=Zr2jeUb8EnGEZD9M0LDPBQ