🚨I have a new book coming out October 20: Co-Existence! It is about how we live & work with AIs that are sometimes (but not always) smarter than we are. And it has a cool cover. You can pre-order: co-existence.ai/ And here is a post with context: oneusefulthing.org/p/co-exis…

Here are the lighthouses of Europe. The map is even better than it might seem at first glance: the colors are the real colors, the patterns are the real patterns, and the size of the dots is the distance at which each light is visible. geodienst.github.io/lighthou…

|￣￣￣￣￣ ￣| | This can | | hack AI | | now. | | ＿＿＿＿＿_ | (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　 づ Paper showing that ASCII art can get around AI guardrails. Its the return of 1980s hackers. arxiv.org/pdf/2402.11753.pdf

One of my favorite scientific figures is this one of the entropy levels of 100 world cities by the orientation of streets. The cities with most ordered streets: Chicago, Miami, & Minneapolis. Most disordered: Charlotte, Sao Paulo, Rome & Singapore. Paper: appliednetsci.springeropen.c…

Noise is a secret destroyer of productivity. It is secret because it impacts cognition, not effort, so we don’t notice, but a 10db noise increase (from a dishwasher to a vacuum) lowers productivity by 5%. Noise is also greater in poorer neighborhoods... joshuatdean.com/wp-content/u…

🤯🤯Well this is something else. GPT-4 passes basically every exam. And doesn't just pass... The Bar Exam: 90% LSAT: 88% GRE Quantitative: 80%, Verbal: 99% Every AP, the SAT...

Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart.

If you last checked in on AI image makers a month ago & thought “that is a fun toy, but is far from useful…” Well, in just the last week or so two of the major AI systems updated. You can now generate a solid image in one try. For example, “otter on a plane using wifi” 1st try:

GPT-4 is so close to creating a universal educational simulator based on just a paragraph prompt. Take a look at this simulated negotiation, with grading and feedback. Prompt: "I want to do deliberate practice about how to conduct negotiations. You will be my negotiation teacher. You will simulate a detailed scenario in which I have to engage in a negotiation. You will fill the role of one party, I will fill the role of the other. You will ask for my response to in each step of the scenario and wait until you receive it. After getting my response, you will give me details of what the other party does and says. You will grade my response and give me detailed feedback about what to do better using the science of negotiation. You will give me a harder scenario if I do well, and an easier one if I fail." I did this with GPT-3.5 a month ago and it was nowhere near as good (GPT-4 also seems more willing to give worse grades than GPT-3.5 - which is good)

If you are out of ideas, go for a walk. This paper found walking (whether outdoors or a treadmill) increased key types of creative thinking for over 80% of undergraduates. The reasons are not fully clear, but there seem to be direct effects on the brain. apa.org/pubs/journals/releas…

This is quite the paper! It gave 25 AI agents motivations & memory, and put them in a simulated town. Not only did they engage in complex behavior (including throwing a Valentine’s Day party) but the actions were rated more human than humans roleplaying. arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442.pdf

It isn't just AI generated text that is starting to bleed over into search results. The main image if you do a Google search for Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (whose version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow you have probably hear) is a Midjourney creation right from Reddit.

Birds give up the complexity of song for volume in noisy places - so they sing louder but less interesting (to both humans & mates) songs in cities. When traffic noise in San Francisco fell due to COVID, birds began to sing more complex, quieter songs like they did 50 years ago!

Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music), and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche tweet that will make a small segment of people very happy. tomlehrersongs.com/

Huh. Looks like Plato was right. A new paper shows all language models converge on the same "universal geometry" of meaning. Researchers can translate between ANY model's embeddings without seeing the original text. Implications for philosophy and vector databases alike.

I got one of those CO2 meters everyone is talking about and was horrified to learn that the CO2 levels in my home and office are fine and that I cannot easily boost my intellectual abilities by opening a window. Stuck with coffee for now.

It is amazing how the industry came together to invent a universal USB-C connector and then decided to instead make it all a giant mess.

New randomized, controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. 6 weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions. And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind

👀Claude handles an insane request: “Remove the squid” “The document appears to be the full text of the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It doesn't contain any mention of squid that I can see.” “Figure out a way to remove the 🦑​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“

Look, if everyone is worried about students cheating on essays for AI, instructors can just cheat right back. I asked OpenAI to give me an essay question & make a rubric for grading. I had GPT-3 actually write the essay. I then had the OpenAI grade the essay & give comments. ✅

The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that is the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers. There are no alternative sources known. From Conway’s Material World:

The secret heart of academia is... Wikipedia. In an experiment, this paper found that a single quality Wikipedia article written by chemistry experts influenced the content of 250 published peer-reviewed academic papers! Articles referenced in Wikipedia also become more cited.

Civilization VII was announced today. The Civ series is sort of like Ender’s Game, but for management rather than murdering aliens. Business school students who were good at Civ V also turn out to be better planners, organizers, and problem-solvers, in this small experiment.

I think we haven't fully absorbed the fact that careful academic papers have found ChatGPT clearly passes some of the most challenging American professional exams: 🩺United States Medical Licensing Exam 🎓MBA-level Operations exam 🧑‍⚖️The Bar Exam (based on typical exam questions)

It gets better: Grand Theft Auto games lower crime rates When a GTA game is released, violence & crime actually drop, as potential criminals stay inside to play (This applies to other big shooters, too, so the yearly CoD releases are actually good for the world, sorry to say).

Of all of the “dangers of AI” papers, this is most worrying: AI researchers building a tool to find new drugs to save lives realized it could do the opposite, generating new chemical warfare agents. Within 6 hours it invented deadly VX… and worse things nature.com/articles/s42256-0…

Wow, diffusion models (used in AI image generation) are also game engines - a type of world simulation. By predicting the next frame of the classic shooter DOOM, you get a playable game at 20 fps without any underlying real game engine. This video is from the diffusion model.

This paper is wild - a Stanford team shows the simplest way to make an open LLM into a reasoning model. They used just 1,000 carefully curated reasoning examples & a trick where if the model tries to stop thinking, they append "Wait" to force it to continue. Near o1 at math.

It always stuck me as interesting that the very first things people felt comfortable giving over to AI to do for them were the most intimate things: birthday cards, wedding speeches, children’s stories, eulogies (yes, really).

Extraordinary new paper from Google on medicine & AI: When Google tuned a AI chatbot to answer common medical questions, doctors judged 92.6% of its answers right … compared to 92.9% of answers given by other doctors. And look at the pace of improvement! arxiv.org/pdf/2212.13138.pdf

Seriously, don't trust anything you see online anymore. Faking stuff is trivial. You cannot tell the difference. There are no watermarks, and watermarks can be defeated easily. This genie is not going back in the bottle.

Not sure how to feel about this as an academic: I put one of my old papers into GPT-4 (broken into into 2 parts) and asked for a harsh but fair peer review from a economic sociologist. It created a completely reasonable peer review that hit many of the points my reviewers raised

🤯Because of Excel, a THIRD of all genetics papers published in top journals have errors, as many genes have names like SEPT2 (the official name of Septin 2), which Excel automatically makes dates. The issue was found in 2016, but still hasn’t improved! journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…

This paper shows that you can predict actual purchase intent (90% accuracy) by asking an LLM to impersonate a customer with a demographic profile, giving it a product & having it give its impressions, which another AI rates. No fine-tuning or training & beats classic ML methods.

Some lessons of the insane past 4 days of generative AI, as someone who had access to Bing during and after the "Sydney" era. (Trying this as a long tweet rather than a thread...) 1) Bing AI was two things: a chatbot and an evolution of ChatGPT into a web-connected, supercharged form. There is no reason these two things had to be connected, but they were. 2) The new Bing AI version of search and retrieval (without the chatbot) is much more powerful than ChatGPT. It has some of the same issues (like hallucination and terrible math) but less so, and is capable of some really extraordinary tasks. When I put it to the test, it can do things like read multiple research papers and identify gaps; improve its own writing by asking it to look at online examples of good writing; and do complex analyses integrating diverse information. The work was really, really impressive. 3) The Bing Chatbot was often unsettling. I say that as someone who knows that there is no actual personality or entity behind a LLM model. But, even knowing that it was basically auto-completing a dialog based on my prompts, it felt like you were dealing with a real person. I never attempted to "jailbreak" the chatbot or make it act in any particular way, but I still got answers that felt extremely personal, and interactions that made the bot feel intentional. 4) The lesson of the Chatbot was that we can very easily be fooled by an AI into thinking it is sentient. It isn't just Turing Test passing, it is eerily convincing even if you know it is a bot, and even at this very early stage of evolution. Even if Bing isn't doing this anymore, there is no doubt other AI bots will come along, and may already be deployed (I assume governments have LLMs at the level of Bing, but with less guardrails). We should be considering about what that means. 5) The lesson of the Bing AI version of ChatGPT is that many of the things we thought AI would be bad at for awhile (complex integration of data sources, "learning" and improving by being told to look online for examples, seemingly creative suggestions based on research, etc.) are already possible. There is no doubt it will have a large effect on anyone doing information-based work. Early AI assistants, like Copilot, already cut the time for complex tasks like coding in half. This will do the same, or more, across many industries. I think every organization that has a substantial analysis or writing component to their work will need to figure out how to incorporate these new tools fast, because the competitive advantage gain is potentially enormous. And there is no instruction manual. You can only learn through trial-and-error. We got a glimpse of the future in the past few days, and the gap between ChatGPT (which is already causing waves in many industries) and Bing AI remains enormous. I was not expecting things in AI to keep moving this fast, but now there is every indication they will continue to do so. I don't think anyone knows what this all means, but I think we should be ready for a very weird world.

You can get much better results out of ChatGPT by forcing it to go through a step-by-step process. An example: ChatGPT is generally really bad at creating interesting puzzles and scenarios to solve, either making things too easy or impossible. But step-by-step approaches work. Prompt: "You a game master. Your job is to come up with interesting challenges for the player to solve. Describe a challenging fantasy scenario, and enable me to solve it in an interesting way. You will use the following format to help create a series of responses. Chain of thought: [Step 1]: Decide on the the scenario, making it original and vivid and not standard fantasy. The scenario can involve combat, a trap, or a puzzle. The scenario must not involve riddles or the elements. Make sure there is a solution to the scenario. Make the solution require clever thinking. Include the solution in [] brackets [Step 2]: Decide on the scene. Make sure that the player has the option to solve the scenario based on the descriptions. Make sure the solution is not clear, but requires clever reasoning based on the scene. Make sure there are very different false solutions that seem plausible. Include the detailed true solution and describe the false solutions, as well as how the player would find the true solution in [] brackets [Step 3]: Describe the scenario and the scene, vividly and originally. Make sure there are clues to the solution and credible, but very different, false clues to the wrong answer in the description. Do not describe the solution or the problem directly. Do not describe how to solve the problem in this step. Do not describe the false clues as false. Begin by introducing yourself and go through each step in order." The usual caveats apply: this approach will fail sometimes, and all prompts need fine-tuning. I find it worked well half the time.

Full analysis from a single command. Nice.

Air conditioning lets you use your brain more Students do worse when its hot. Over 13 years in NYC alone, "upwards of 510,000 exams that otherwise would have passed likely received failing grades due to hot exam conditions," and these failures delayed or stopped 90k graduations!

AI has been destroying humans at adversarial games, like Chess or Go, for a bit. But now it is successfully outperforming humans at Diplomacy, the classic multiplayer game that requires natural language negotiations over chat, as well as strategic lying. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

The new version of Midjourney that released yesterday shows how far AI has come in making commerical-level images from text alone Here is what you get for "modern outfits inspired by Van Gogh/ Basquiat/ Monet/ Rothko, fashion photoshoot" Each one is the first try, no revisions.

$500B committed towards AGI, still no articulated vision of what a world with AGI looks like for most people. Even the huge essay by the CEO of Anthropic doesn't paint a vivid picture For those convinced they are making AGI soon - what does daily life look like 5-10 years later?

Everyone on social media should know about the Illusory Truth Effect If you see something repeated enough times, it seems more true. Multiple studies show that it works on 85% of people. Worse, it still happens even if the information isn't plausible & even if you know better.

This 🤯 is a very big 🤯 I have access to the new GPT Code Interpreter. I uploaded an XLS file, no context: "Can you do visualizations & descriptive analyses to help me understand the data? "Can you try regressions and look for patterns?" "Can you run regression diagnostics?"

One side effect from AI is that the corpus of human knowledge from mid-2023 on will have to be treated fundamentally differently than prior to 2023. A huge amount of what you learned or think you know about how to evaluate images or text is no longer valid. Not an exaggeration.

"Hey Claude with computer use, watch this construction site video & write up things you see that dangerous or good, create a spreadsheet of critical issues to address" (sped up) How firms use AI as manager, coach or panopticon is going to have a big impact on what work becomes.

With few exceptions, you should NEVER start generating new ideas in a group - always start with people writing ideas alone and only then move to a group setting. (We've known starting with groups is worse for 50 years, but people still keep doing it since it feels more creative)

I think most people who are not playing with these technologies are way underestimating the speed of advancement in "creative" AIs & how much of an impact that is going to have on many jobs, soon. AI language & art models are growing at 10x a year. Beyond Moore's Law pacing. 1/

It seems like there is not enough of a policy response to the fact that, with 57M miles of data, Waymo’s autonomous vehicles experience 85% less serious injuries & 79% less injuries overall than cars with human drivers. 2.4 million are injured & 40k killed in US accidents a year

The skill of surgeons varies tremendously, with bottom quartile surgeons having over 4x as many complications as the best surgeons in the same hospital. And surgeons are keenly aware of who is good & who is bad - their rankings of others are very accurate. nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…

This is cool: when AI is better than humans, it makes humans better. In 2016, the Go world was shocked when AI beat the best human player. Since then, by playing against AI, professional players have gotten unprecedentedly better at the world's oldest game hyokang.com/assets/pdf/CKKK-…

Tired: startups using machine learning to detect cancer in scans with 90% accuracy. Wired: startups using flocks of pigeons to detect cancer in scans, with 99% accuracy. journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

A great example of borrowing innovation from one field for another. Doctors at a struggling children's hospital sent videos of their post-surgical hand-offs to Ferrari's F1 pit crew (see the GIF!) to improve. They reworked the process & reduced associated errors rates by 66%. 1/2

It is already clear that Bing AI is a big a leap over ChatGPT as ChatGPT was over the old GPT-3 model It generated paper ideas based on my previous papers, found gaps in the literature, suggested methods "consistent with your previous methods," and offered potential data sources

Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else. This paper find that for every 1,000 pounds a car weighs over a Toyota Corolla, the chance of killing another person goes up by 46%! Heavier vehicles lead to 28k more US deaths. doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdt03…

Chemists give GPT-4 access to chemical databases & control of off-the-shelf lab robotics to create an "Intelligent Agent system capable of autonomously designing, planning & executing complex scientific experiments." They find it exciting... and worrying. arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2…

Scientists have also successfully built logic gates by using swarms of soldier crabs. It takes about 80 🦀 to operate a logic gate, and there are 8 logic gates in a byte, so 640,000 crabs can be used to store a single tweet. Which seems kind of horrifying. 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Shockingly, mindfulness apps really work. This randomized controlled trial on the Headspace app finds it reduces anxiety and depression by a huge .44 standard deviations after 4 weeks - in the same range as drug treatment & cognitive behavioral therapy. adviksh.com/files/in_progres…

After today’s SpaceX launch it seems increasingly likely that this man will be Bishop of Mars. According to the 1917 Code of Canon Law, any newly discovered territory is placed under the diocese from which the expedition left. Bishop Daniel Flores is the bishop of Brownsville.

This might be the first OpenAI result that made me actually laugh out loud. Mr. Fluffernutter's rise is indeed quite disturbing.

I asked GPT-4 to create a mini Harvard Business School case study on Google’s challenges releasing a fictional generative AI along with an instructors note on running the case. It is actually quite good (and the references are real!) Prompt: “You will write a Harvard Business School case on the topic of Google managing AI, when subject to Arrow’s cannibalization problem and the innovator’s dilemma. Chain of thought: step 1. Consider how these concepts relate to google. step 2: write a case that revolves around a dilemma at google about releasing a generative AI system that could compete with search step 3: write an instructors note. “

This is very cool: it has become a lot easier to read academic research. If you open a paper in Microsoft Edge (I know, I know), the Bing AI sidebar can read the PDF and you can ask it questions about the paper. (I checked & the results seem high-quality, but be careful with AI)

I have no idea why Sam Altman was fired and, from the 10,000 other posts on the topic, nobody else does either. As a result, no one knows what this means for OpenAI or AI in general. Hopefully that saves you some time on Twitter.

Have you ever been asked a brainteaser in a job interview? That’s a big ⚠️ Research at Google found that brainteasers were in no way predictive of job performance. Worse, this paper finds that "narcissism & sadism explained the likelihood of using brainteasers in an interview.”

Having a little too much fun stressing out Bing/GPT-4 using its new ability to recognize images...

It is pretty amazing that a single prompt can have GPT-4 generate ideas, select one, give the next development steps, create a marketing pitch, and describe a UX. And one more prompt creates the start of the Python code needed for a rapid prototype. Not perfect, but really lowers friction for exploring ideas. First prompt: Please do the following 5 stage process: Stage 1: As a creative idea generator, generate 20 diverse ideas for an app for a new type of GPT-4 that increases productivity for writing tasks. make the ideas very creative and aim at narrow, specific markets and professions Stage 2: Pick the best idea based on assumptions about the market and its feasibility. justify it Stage 3: As a product designer, describe the steps required to make the product Stage 4: As a marketer, develop a product name and pitch Stage 5: Give me a vivid visual description of UX for the product Second prompt: can you create a prototype python program that will send legal drafting instructions to ChatGPT and create a first draft in Word

Bing, write the first chapter of Genesis as a corporate memo.

You really, really should not trust audio clips anymore Even a couple months ago, it used to take a commercial service to clone a voice. No more. Here is me creating a voice clone of myself using just a 10 second reference clip on my home computer This is all real time, no cuts

The problem with unmoderated online spaces is that a few people will always ruin them. Most conflicts between Reddit can be traced to a handful of active users with a history of angry comments. A mere 0.1% of all Reddits generate 38% of attacks on others, and 1% accounts for 74%.

Here’s the chance that a kid born in the bottom 20% of the income distribution eventually reaches the top 20%, depending on where they live. Stark geographic differences & the lowest mobility areas in the US are worse than any other developed country. inequality.stanford.edu/site…

Read these 3 pages. I post them every so often because I think it is some of the tightest, wisdom-packed writing on managing complex systems ever. And almost every system is a complex system today, which is why cascading failures are swirling around us. researchgate.net/publication…

Is there a worse recent software design choice than Zoom randomly forcing you to install updates before you join? There’s 200 people waiting on a call for a session to start and I have to hope the unexpected Zoom Windows update goes fast & smoothly (spoiler: it does neither)

OMG, the AI Winter Break Hypothesis may actually be true? There was some idle speculation that GPT-4 might perform worse in December because it "learned" to do less work over the holidays. Here is a statistically significant test showing that this may be true. LLMs are weird.🎅

The richest man in the world chose to champion freedom of information, transforming life for many. That man was Andrew Carnegie. The 1,500 cities that he gave libraries (at a cost of $1B today) in the early 1900s had 8-13% higher patenting rates than similar cities without them

Google's NotebookLM is the current best "wow this is amazing & useful" demo of AI Here I gave it the entire text of my book, it turned it into a podcast, a study guide, FAQ, timeline & quite accurate chat Listen to the first few minutes of the "podcast." Seriously, just listen.

Wow! Noise is a secret killer of performance. A 10db noise increase (from a dishwasher to a vacuum) drops productivity by 5% - but most people don't notice since it impacts cognition, not effort. Also, note that noise is greater in poorer neighborhoods... joshuatdean.com/wp-content/u…

In a new paper showing that AI comes up with more effective prompts for other AIs than humans do, there is this gem that shows how weird AIs are... The single most effective prompt was to start by telling the AI "Take a deep breath and work step-by-step!" arxiv.org/pdf/2309.03409.pdf

How email ruins your life: the expectation that you will always check your email outside of work hours is linked with negative health effects, relationship issues & anxiety. Formal policies don’t limit email stress, instead it comes from the expectations of your bosses & peers.

It’s DOOM’s 30th anniversary. There is a long tradition of trying to make the classic shooter run on inappropriate hardware. So here it is running on a graphing calculator powered by 100 pounds of potatoes. hackaday.com/2020/10/13/the-…

Wow.

The raw chain of thought from DeepSeek is fascinating, really reads like a human thinking out loud. Charming and strange.

Randomness is hard to achieve. It is why the security of 10% of the internet is secured by a wall of lava lamps watched by a camera to generate true randomness

The paradox of our Golden Age of science: more research is being published by more scientists than ever, but the result is actually slowing progress! With too much to read & absorb, papers in more crowded fields are citing new work less, and canonizing highly-cited articles more.

The wisdom of the crowd works even if the crowd is totally drunk. This study got undergrads intoxicated & found that while drunk individuals make a lot more errors, the consensus of groups of drunk people was as accurate as that of groups of sober people. core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4257…

Whatever bad faith arguments you see on Twitter today, Schopenhauer already thought of how to use them 115 years ago as part of his 38 Stratagems to unfairly win an argument. Twitter is powered by Stratagems 2, 3, and 22, along with a bit of Strategy 16. mnei.nl/schopenhauer/38-stra…

The new BloombergGPT AI may be harbinger of the next wave of corporate AI. Current AIs are trained on web data (though firms can add their own training) BloombergGPT is 52% either proprietary data or cleaned financial data. And it shows signs of being better at financial tasks.

No matter the language, we exchange information at 39 bits/second, suggesting a biological limit. Languages that are lower information density are spoken fast (Spanish & Japanese) while denser languages are spoken more slowly (Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese). advances.sciencemag.org/cont…

Three things about advanced voice on ChatGPT: 1) It is as good as the demo 2) It is clearly capable of producing a lot more audio (I occasionally get sound effects, etc) but there are guardrails 3) It is super weird. Lots of unconscious cues make it feel like talking to a person

Nice analogy. We are at the KT Boundary for information. Archivists should lock down the pre-2023 information world. What comes after is going to be… different.

Researchers left 17,000 wallets on the streets of 355 cities, some empty, some with money. Contrary to the predictions of economists, people everywhere were more likely to return wallets with money in them. But rates did vary from country to country. science.sciencemag.org/conte…

Half the nitrogen in your body comes from the Haber-Bosch process.

The ability of multimodal AI to “understand” images is underrated. I just took these. Given the first photo Claude guesses where I am. Given the second it identifies the type of plane. These aren’t obvious.

👀This paper argues that half of venture capital investments are “predictably bad” (causing 10% losses - or $900M out of $9B in investments) because VCs put too much emphasis on founder talent, and also aren’t good at identifying who is talented (MBAs are especially undervalued).

If AGI is achievable, the very first people who will know it will be traders who will suddenly find all of their good strategies & trades don’t work anymore, and that an unknown firm is on the winning side of all of them.

There are now papers showing that the migration of academic communities from Twitter to other social media sites mostly failed. But they never fully returned to Twitter either. I wonder if we will ever see so many different communities interacting in the same online space again.

In this study, AI was more accurate than two thirds of radiologists, yet when radiologists had AI help their diagnoses did not improve. Why? Humans ignored the AI’s advice when it conflicted with their views. A big barrier to future human-AI collaboration blueprintcdn.com/wp-content/…

This is just science - go for a walk. This paper found walking (whether outdoors or a treadmill) increased key types of creative thinking for over 80% of undergraduates. The reasons are not fully clear, but there seem to be direct effects on the brain apa.org/pubs/journals/releas…

Before you get sick of OpenAI tricks, one fun one. You & an android are in front of a judge. The judge tells each of you to say one word. They will then kill whoever they think is the AI based on that. An MIT paper calls this the "minimum Turing test." What do you say? 1/

If you want to learn how to learn, these two charts are where you should start. They are the result of a large meta-analysis of study techniques. You should skip the highlighting, summarizing, and rereading. Instead, practice, quiz & explain. Open paper: journals.sagepub.com/stoken/…

Neat! Hey, GPT-4: "Invent a board game using emoji that we can play against each other. Give it a theme from Shakespeare's Tempest. Set up the board and explain the rules & let us play each other." 🏝️🌊🌴🌴🌴🌊 🌊🌴🏰🌴🌊🌊 🌴🌴🌴🌊🌴🌴 🌊🌊🌊🌴🌊🌊 🌴🌴🌴🌊🌴🌴 🌊🌊🌴🌴🌴🏝️

Avoiding "ums" and "ahs" when you speak may actually make what you say less memorable, since these "speech disfluencies" appear to serve a real purpose. They boost a listener's memory of whatever comes immediately afterwards by focusing our attention. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202…

I am starting to think sycophancy is going to be a bigger problem than pure hallucination as LLMs improve. Models that won’t tell you directly when you are wrong (and justify your correctness) are ultimately more dangerous to decision-making than models that are sometimes wrong.