Published inTowards Data Science·PinnedMember-onlyWhy I Signed the “Pause Giant AI Experiments” PetitionThe “spirit” is right; the body has many flaws Last Tuesday, I received from the Future of Life Institute an email asking me to sign a petition to pause giant AI experiments. When I signed the letter, the organizers asked us to keep it confidential until its publication moment arrived…Artificial Intelligence8 min readArtificial Intelligence8 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·PinnedMember-onlyHow Generative AI will Disrupt Everything During the Current DecadeMany will be surprised — In recent months, AI systems like Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, LaMDA, and PaLM have made big strides in domains apparently as diverse as image and text generation. …AI7 min readAI7 min read
Published inPredict·May 15Member-onlyDo You Know that Human Bodies can be Seen From Outside a Room with WiFi?I’ve done it myself. We live in a time when technology often threatens individual privacy: you can recall several face-recognition-related recent stories about its misuse. …Machine Learning5 min readMachine Learning5 min read
Published inGenerative AI·May 5Member-onlyDoes ChatGPT Understand Or Not? I’ve Just Changed My MindWhat is understanding anyway? No, this is not the announcement of a revelation I had with angels and skies opening with sunshine. Neither is it a confession in the style of Blake Lemoine when he proclaimed Google’s LaMDA was “sentient” (which resulted in Google firing him). …Artificial Intelligence7 min readArtificial Intelligence7 min read
Published inMLearning.ai·Mar 24Member-onlySiri Just Became ObsoleteWait, it seems it’s being replaced by a “New Siri.” I remember when it all started (this is one of the few advantages of age). It was the end of 2011. There was excitement about the new wonder from Apple: a voice “personal assistant” called Siri able to call your…Artificial Intelligence6 min readArtificial Intelligence6 min read
Mar 17Member-onlyThe “Human-level Performance” of GPT-4Some critical thinking, please Much excitement has been about the potential of GPT-4, the next iteration of OpenAI’s language model, to the point that some talk about a “human-level performance”. For instance, GPT-4 has “passed” some schools' standard tests (such as the GRE, LSAT, etc.) …Artificial Intelligence5 min readArtificial Intelligence5 min read
Published inTowards AI·Mar 9Member-onlyThis is How to Stop ChatGPT, Bing, Poe, and You from HallucinatingIt’s not by using human feedback — The Hallucinations (no mushrooms involved) Despite the amazement and awe that Generative AI conversational systems like ChatGPT have raised, many of us know that the writing produced by them has critical limitations: They can be induced into going bonkers and becoming evil after the “injection” of some clever prompts –this has been called “prompt injection”…Artificial Intelligence8 min readArtificial Intelligence8 min read
Published inGeek Culture·Feb 21Member-onlyChatGPT’s Doppelgänger, it’s Evil TwinWhich one is its true personality? This short post discusses the –sometimes very funny– ways in which clever users overcame the OpenAI safety guardrails. If you don’t know what ChatGPT is, this post is not for you. Instead, go to the OpenAI site and have a first-person experience. …Artificial Intelligence5 min readArtificial Intelligence5 min read
Published inMLearning.ai·Feb 8Member-onlyNotion AI: Way More of a Real Product than ChatGPTLess noise, just functionality Disclaimer: I’m in no way related to Notion. The views expressed in this post are just my own. What is Notion? In case you are not familiar with the Notion software platform (notion.so), it started as a browser-based note-taking and wiki platform, but soon it evolved into a multipurpose…Artificial Intelligence6 min readArtificial Intelligence6 min read
Published inTowards AI·Jan 30Member-only6 Things Many Get Wrong about ChatGPTWhy there are wrong and how to correct them — I don’t intend to explain what ChatGPT is in this post, as so many explanations are available here or here, even explained by ChatGPT itself. …Artificial Intelligence7 min readArtificial Intelligence7 min read
