2024 2

What happens when AI talks to AI?

When LLMs talk to each other, you get emergent behavior (i.e. they do weird things we didn't expect). Like: Claude 2 giving Claude 1 a panic attack Llama 3 405b gets amnesia Claude 3.5 calls itself a glitch in the Matrix Arguably, NotebookLM's podcasts are exactly this. This sounds like fun, so I built one myself at https://llmdialog.straive.app/ and ran a few scenarios. (It's Gemini 1.5 Flash 8b playing each of these roles.) ...

Weird emergent properties on Llama 3 405B

In this episode of ThursdAI, Alex Volkov (of Weights & Biases) speaks with Jeffrey Quesnelle (of Nous Research) on what they found fine-tuning Llama 3 405B. This segment is fascinating. Llama 3 405 B thought it was an amnesiac because there was no system prompt! In trying to make models align with the system prompt strongly, these are the kinds of unexpected behaviors we encounter. It’s also an indication how strongly we can have current LLMs adopt a personality simply by beginning the system prompt with “You are …” ...

2006 1

dots not google

dots not google. An interesting Java animation that reminds me of Michael Crichton’s Prey.

2002 2

The circuit became a radio instead

An interesting application of genetic programming. Two people at the University of Sussex wrote this genetic program to make a circuit produce sound. The circuit became a radio instead.

Complexity in basketball

Interesting article on complexity in basketball (from NECSI)