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Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team
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What happened this week in AI by Louis
While ChatGPT continues to create excitement in AI, this week we saw lots of active discussion and argument around the model’s inner workings and why it is so successful in producing meaningful text. The opinion is divided on just how smart ChatGPT is, how it works, and how significant its release is to the future of AI. We find both sides of these arguments valuable. Different perspectives and thoughtful new ways of describing the workings of large language models and transformers such as ChatGPT can help to continue to improve these models and build on their shortcomings.
An article in The New Yorker described ChatGPT as a “Blurry JPEG of the Web” because of its ability to retain much of the information on the Web. However, it’s important to note that if you’re looking for an exact sequence of bits, you won’t find it. Instead, all you will ever get is an approximation, or worse, a hallucination (ChatGPT confidently giving you false information it invented). Unlike a blurry JPEG, ChatGPT is revolutionary because the approximation is presented as grammatical text, which ChatGPT excels at creating. Though it may not be perfect, the text produced by ChatGPT is usually acceptable. In essence, you’re still looking at a blurry JPEG, but the blurriness occurs in a way that doesn’t make the picture as a whole look less sharp.
Stephen Wolfram’s article provides another interesting and very in-depth take on how ChatGPT works. He runs through the surprising contrast between ChatGPT’s relatively basic concept, simple NN elements, and basic operations behind it — and its remarkable results. While it doesn’t always “globally make sense” because it’s just saying things that “sound right” based on its training set. Wolfram also discusses the similarities and differences between ChatGPT’s underlying neural-net structure and the human brain — and some of its shortcomings, such as lack of computational capability. Overall, he concludes; ChatGPT is a great example of the remarkable things large amounts of simple computational elements can do and also provides great impetus to better understand human language and the processes of thinking behind it.
While ChatGPT has made significant strides in making AI more accessible, the next frontier in the field could be building trust in AI. Especially building trustable AI that does not fail confidently and can explain its results in ways humans can understand and judge. Demonstrating the reliability and trustworthiness of an AI system could become a competitive advantage that outweighs having the largest or fastest repository of answers.
Hottest News
1.Microsoft to demo its new ChatGPT-like AI in Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook soon
Microsoft plans to expand it to core productivity apps such as Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook by integrating OpenAI’s language AI technology and Prometheus Model in the coming weeks.
Training and running a large language model like ChatGPT is expensive. While our brains are a million times more efficient than the GPUs, CPUs, and memory that make up ChatGPT’s cloud hardware, neuromorphic computing researchers are working to make the miracles that big server farms in the clouds can do today much simpler and cheaper, bringing them to small devices. This approach is similar to the way the brain works, with hardware, software, and algorithms blended in an intertwined way.
3. Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI
After facing backlash, Spotify has paused an arrangement that allowed Apple to use some audiobook files for training machine learning models. The dispute arose after several narrators learned of a clause in contracts between authors and Findaway Voices, a leading audiobook distributor, which gave Apple the right to “use audiobook files for machine learning training and models.”
In recent instances, AI models confidently provided responses containing incorrect historical, scientific, or physical information. The expected widespread adoption of large language models may increase the production of false or erroneous memories without the intent to deceive, which is defined as “confabulating” or “honest lying” by ClinMedjournal.
5. How should AI systems behave, and who should decide?
OpenAI shares information on how ChatGPT’s behavior is shaped, as well as their plans for improving its behavior, allowing for more user customization, and increasing public input into the decision-making process in these areas.
Three 5-minute reads/videos to keep you learning
Doing psychology on large language models is harder than you might think. A recent study by a business professor at Stanford on the Theory of Mind has been one of the major news in the AI world recently. This article explores whether GPT-3 really mastered the theory of mind (ToM). The truth, however, is that GPT often fails in problems involving the theory of mind.
2. How to find a job in Generative AI, and what is it like?
In this video, Louis Bouchard dives into a conversation with Or Gorodissky, VP of R&D at D-ID about how to find a job in Generative AI and what the day-to-day is like. The interview covers a wide range of topics related to Generative AI such as the ideal education to get into this field, the job interview process and what’s it like to work in a startup in such a fast-evolving industry.
3. PEFT: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Billion-Scale Models on Low-Resource Hardware
PEFT approaches enable comparable performance to full fine-tuning with few trainable parameters. HuggingFace has introduced a PEFT library that provides the latest Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning techniques, seamlessly integrated with HuggingFace Transformers and Accelerate. This enables the use of the most popular and performant models from Transformers, coupled with the simplicity and scalability of Accelerate.
4. Create consistent characters in Midjourney
In this Twitter thread, @nickfloats shares the best way he has found to create consistent characters in Midjourney. He provides a step-by-step guide for the process, including prompting techniques and setting up the entire workflow.
5. Could Stable Diffusion Solve a Gap in Medical Imaging Data?
The Stanford AIMI scholars have found a way to generate synthetic chest X-rays by fine-tuning the open-source Stable Diffusion foundation model. This breakthrough is promising, as it could lead to more extensive research, a better understanding of rare diseases, and even the development of new treatment protocols. This article provides a walk-through of the process.
Papers & Repositories
1.LangChain: Building applications with LLMs through composability
The LangChain library aims to assist in the development of applications that can leverage the power of LLMs with other sources of computation or knowledge. It is designed to help with six main areas: LLMs and Prompts, Chains, Data-Augmented Generation, Agents, Memory, and Evaluation.
This paper investigates the planning problem in Minecraft, an open-ended and challenging environment for developing multi-task embodied agents. The DEPS approach offers better error correction through feedback during long-haul planning and provides a sense of proximity through a learnable module called the Goal Selector. The experiments also show the first multi-task agent capable of accomplishing over 70 Minecraft tasks and almost doubling overall performance.
3. Level Generation Through Large Language Models
The paper explores the utilization of LLMs to create levels for the game Sokoban, and concludes that LLMs are capable of generating such levels. It also reveals that the performance of LLMs is significantly related to the size of the dataset. Additionally, the paper presents initial tests on regulating LLM-level generators and discusses the potential research areas.
4. Augmented Language Models: A Survey
This survey reviews the works in which language models (LMs) are augmented with reasoning skills and the ability to use tools. After reviewing the current advances in ALMs, the work concludes that this new research direction has the potential to address common limitations of traditional LMs, such as interpretability, consistency, and scalability issues.
5. Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Algorithmic advances
This article is part of a series of posts covering different research areas at Google. It highlights Google’s progress in scaling up machine learning (ML) solutions, ensuring privacy in ML, developing market algorithms, and advancing the algorithmic foundations of large-scale ML deployment.
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Article of the week
Traffic Forecasting: The Power of Graph Convolutional Networks on Time Series by Barak Or, PhD
The Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) represents a groundbreaking development in deep learning, demonstrating its versatility and potential for addressing real-world problems. Traffic prediction is a critical issue in transportation, and the capacity to apply GCN algorithms for this purpose holds immense promise and has the potential to significantly impact the transportation industry.
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