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1,251karma·187submissions·July 24, 2019
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Article says there is compelling but contested “smoking gun” evidence in favor of both lab leak and zoonotic/wet market origin theories (only one of which can be the actual origin), including new…
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From the article: > The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, argued that Amazon had “duped millions of consumers” into enrolling in Prime by using “manipula…
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Interesting. Does the decision to use ALiBi have to be done before the model weights are first trained, or is there a way that these models could have incorporated ALiBi instead or in addition to an a…
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I don’t see this in the article. Has Anthropic explained the mechanism by which they were able to cost-effectively expand the context window, and whether there was additional training or a design deci…
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Useful overview on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jlowin/status/1641155964601548802?s=46&t... > We're open-sourcing @AskMarvinAI to make it easy to build AI-powere…
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Not a LLM-expert, but here are three theories in descending order: 1. Quantization (e.g. fewer bits per weight) 2. Optimization to dedicated hardware 3. (Speculative) pruning of parameters to get comp…
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This is a very intriguing explanation of observed “bad” behavior by Bing/Sydney, the effectiveness of GPT jailbreaks, and a somewhat compelling argument that it is hard-to-impossible to truly ali…
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