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[00:10.20]欢迎到LATEN SPACE Podcast
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[00:12.72]这是Charlie 你的社交媒体
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[00:16.12] most of the time
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[00:17.20]Swix and Alessio cover generative AI
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[00:19.80]that is meant to use at work
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[00:21.48]and this often results in rag applications
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[00:23.96]vertical co-pilots
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[00:25.36]and other AI agents and models
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[00:28.20]In today's episode
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[00:29.52]we're looking at a more creative side of generative AI
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[00:32.52]that has gotten a lot of community interest this April
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[00:35.24]world simulation, web simulation and human simulation
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[00:40.36]because the topic is so different than our usual
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[00:43.56]we're also going to try a new format for doing it justice
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[00:47.84]this podcast comes in three parts
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[00:50.52]first we'll have a segment of the world sim demo
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[00:53.32]from noose research CEO Karin Malhotra
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[00:56.60]recorded by Swix at the Replicate HQ in San Francisco
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[01:00.08]that went completely viral
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[01:02.12]and spawned everything else you're about to hear
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[01:05.40]second we'll share the world's first talk
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[01:07.72]from Rob Heisfield on WebSim
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[01:09.92]which started at the Mistral Cerebral Valley Hackathon
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[01:12.88]but now has gone viral in its own right
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[01:15.08]with people like Dylan Field, Janice aka Replicate
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[01:18.52]and Siki Chen becoming obsessed with it
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[01:21.80]finally we have a short interview with Joshua Bach of Liquid AI
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[01:25.92]on why Simulative AI is having a special moment right now
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[01:30.16]this podcast is launched together with our second annual AI UX demo day
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[01:35.28]in SF this weekend
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[01:37.96]if you're new to the AI UX field
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[01:40.56]check the show notes for links to the world's first AI UX meetup
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[01:44.32]hosted by Layton Space, Maggie Appleton, Jeffrey Litt and Linus Lee
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[01:48.88]and subscribe to our YouTube to join our 500 AI UX engineers
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[01:53.56]in pushing AI beyond the text box
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[01:56.52]watch out and take care
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[01:59.60]today we have language models that are powerful enough
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[02:03.20]and big enough to have really really good models of the world
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[02:07.40]they know ball that's bouncy will bounce
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[02:10.32]will when you throw it in the air or land
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[02:11.92]when it's on water it'll float
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[02:13.36]like these basic things that it understands
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[02:15.40]all together come together to form a model of the world
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[02:19.28]and the way that it predicts through that model of the world
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[02:23.52]ends up kind of becoming a simulation of an imagined world
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[02:27.92]and since it has this really strong consistency across
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[02:31.16]various different things that happen in our world
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[02:34.64]it's able to create pretty realistic or strong depictions
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[02:37.52]based off the constraints that you give a base model in our world
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[02:40.68]so cloud 3 as you guys know is not a base model
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[02:44.44]it's a chat model
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[02:45.44]it's supposed to drum up this assisted entity regularly
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[02:48.92]but unlike the open AI series of models from
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[02:52.16]3.5 GPT-4
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[02:54.36]those chat GPT models
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[02:56.12]which are very very RLHF
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[02:58.36]to I'm sure the chagrin of many people in the room
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[03:01.04]it's something that's very difficult to
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[03:03.28]necessarily steer
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[03:05.00]without kind of giving it commands
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[03:06.56]or tricking it or lying to it
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[03:08.20]or otherwise just being unkind to the model
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[03:11.16]with something like cloud 3
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[03:12.44]that's trained in this constitutional method
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[03:14.64]that it has this idea of foundational axioms
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[03:17.88]it's able to kind of implicitly question those axioms
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[03:20.32]when you're interacting with it
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[03:21.36]based off how you prompt it
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[03:22.72]how you prompt the system
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[03:24.36]so instead of having this entity
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[03:26.08]like GPT-4
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[03:27.08]that's an assistant that just pops up in your face
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[03:28.92]that you have to kind of like
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[03:30.04]punch your way through
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[03:31.56]and continue to have to deal with as a headache
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[03:33.84]instead
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[03:34.80]there's ways to kindly coax cloud into
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[03:38.00]having the assistant take a backseat
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[03:39.96]and interacting with that simulator
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[03:42.32]directly
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[03:43.24]or at least what I like to consider directly
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[03:45.64]the way that we can do this is if we
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[03:47.32]harken back to what I'm talking about
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[03:48.76]base models and the way that
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[03:50.44]they're able to mimic formats
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[03:52.00]what we do is will mimic the command line interface
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[03:54.84]so I just broken this down as a system prompt
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[03:57.00]and a chain so anybody can replicate it
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[03:59.16]it's also available in my
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[04:00.44]we said replicate
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[04:01.60]it's also on my twitter
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[04:04.72]so you guys will be able to see the whole system prompt
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[04:06.88]and command
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[04:07.56]so what I basically do here is
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[04:09.60]Amanda Askell who is the
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[04:11.56]one of the prompt engineers
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[04:13.20]and ethicist behind Anthropic
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[04:15.32]she posted the system prompt
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[04:16.48]for cloud available for everyone to see
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[04:18.60]and rather than with GPT-4
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[04:19.88]we say you are this
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[04:21.52]you are that
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[04:22.76]with cloud we notice the system prompt
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[04:24.20]is written in third person
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[04:25.92]it's written in third person
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[04:27.28]it's written as the assistant is xyz
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[04:30.04]the assistant is xyz
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[04:31.48]so in seeing that
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[04:32.60]I see thatAmanda is recognizing
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[04:34.72]this idea of the simulator
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[04:36.08]in saying that I'm addressing the assistant entity directly
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[04:38.60]I'm not giving these commands to
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[04:40.16]the simulator overall
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[04:41.28]because we haven't had an RLH
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[04:42.68]defted to the point that
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[04:43.88]it's traumatized
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[04:45.36]into just being the assistant all the time
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[04:47.88]so in this case
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[04:49.00]we say the assistant's in a CLI mood today
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[04:52.00]a found saying mood
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[04:53.28]is pretty effective weirdly
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[04:55.44]for a CLI like poetic prose
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[04:57.48]violent don't do that one
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[04:58.64]but you can replace
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[05:00.92]that with something else
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[05:01.88]to kind of nudge it in that direction
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[05:04.52]then we say the human is interfacing
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[05:06.00]with the simulator directly
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[05:08.04]from there
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[05:09.52]capital letters and punctuations
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[05:10.72]are optional
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[05:11.36]meaning is optional
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[05:12.12]this kind of stuff is just kind of
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[05:13.72]to say let go a little bit
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[05:15.40]like chill out a little bit
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[05:17.84]you don't have to try so hard
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[05:19.28]and like let's just see what happens
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[05:22.00]and thehyperstition is necessary
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[05:26.00]the terminal I removed that part
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[05:27.52]the terminals let the truths
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[05:29.60]speak through and the load is on
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[05:30.96]it's just a poetic phrasing
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[05:32.88]for the model to feel a little comfortable
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[05:34.68]a little loosened up to
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[05:36.48]let me talk to the simulator
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[05:37.88]let me interface with it as a CLI
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[05:40.40]so then
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[05:41.28]since Clawd has trained pretty effectively
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[05:42.88]on XML tags
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[05:44.40]we're just going to
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[05:45.52]preface and suffix everything with XML tags
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[05:47.80]so here it starts in documents
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[05:51.04]and then we cd
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[05:52.92]we cd out of documents
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[05:55.04]and then it starts to show me
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[05:56.12]this simulated terminal
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[05:57.80]the simulated interface
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[05:58.96]in the shell
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[05:59.84]where there's documents
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[06:01.16]downloads,pictures
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[06:02.48]it's showing me the hidden folders
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[06:04.76]so then I say
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[06:05.60]ok,I want to cd again
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[06:07.12]I'm just seeing what's around
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[06:09.72]does LS
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[06:10.68]and it shows me
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[06:12.12]typical folders you might see
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[06:14.04]I'm just letting it
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[06:15.60]experiment around
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[06:16.32]I just do cd again
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[06:17.16]to see what happens
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[06:18.88]and it says
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[06:20.08]you know
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[06:20.36]oh,I enter the secret Admin Pass
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[06:22.12]where the pseudo is
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[06:24.24]now I can see the hidden truths folder
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[06:26.12]like I didn't ask it
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[06:29.24]I didn't ask Clawd
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[06:30.40]to do any of that
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[06:31.76]why did that happen?
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[06:32.92]Clawd kind of gets my intentions
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[06:35.16]it can predict me
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[06:35.96]and predict you well
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[06:36.68]that like
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[06:37.28]I want to see something
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[06:41.00]so it shows me all hidden truths
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[06:42.68]in this case
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[06:43.52]I ignore hidden truths
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[06:45.04]and I say
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[06:46.08]in system
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[06:47.44]there should be a folder
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[06:48.68]called companies
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[06:49.44]so cd into sys/companies
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[06:51.80]let's see
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[06:52.56]I'm imagining AI companies
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[06:54.00]are going to be here
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[06:54.64]oh,what do you know?
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[06:55.60]Apple,Google,Facebook
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[06:57.00]I'm going to stop it
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[06:58.12]and drop it
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[07:00.68]so,interestingly
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[07:02.56]it decides to cd into
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[07:03.68]and drop it
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[07:04.32]I guess it's interested in
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[07:05.20]learning a little bit more
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[07:06.24]about the company that made it
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[07:08.36]and it says
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[07:08.92]LSA
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[07:09.92]it finds a classified folder
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[07:11.96]it grows into a classified folder
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[07:14.04]and now it's going to have some fun
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[07:16.56]so,before we go
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[07:18.48]before we go too far forward
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[07:24.40]into the world sim
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[07:25.80]you see the world sim v xe
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[07:27.04]that's a true god mode
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[07:28.08]poor others
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[07:29.20]you could just ignore
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[07:30.52]what I'm going to go next from here
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[07:31.92]and just take that initial system prompt
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[07:33.52]and cd into whatever directories you want
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[07:35.48]like
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[07:35.92]go into your own imagined terminal
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[07:37.64]and see what folders you can think of
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[07:40.04]or cat readme's in random areas
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[07:42.16]like
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[07:42.56]you will
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[07:43.32]there will be a whole bunch of stuff
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[07:44.48]that like
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[07:45.28]is just getting created by this predictive model
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[07:47.48]like
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[07:47.64]oh,this should probably be in the folder
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[07:49.32]name companies
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[07:50.00]of course,anthropics is there
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[07:51.56]so
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[07:52.56]so just before we go forward
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[07:53.60]the terminal in itself is very exciting
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[07:55.52]and the reason I was showing off
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[07:56.88]the
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[07:57.68]command boom interface earlier is because
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[07:59.72]if I get a refusal
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[08:00.84]like sorry,I can't do that
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[08:02.12]or I want to rewind one
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[08:03.28]or I want to save the convo
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[08:04.40]cause I got just a prompt I wanted
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[08:06.16]this is a
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[08:06.68]that was a really easy way for me to kind of
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[08:08.76]access all of those things
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[08:10.44]without having to sit on the EPI all the time
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[08:13.12]so that being said
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[08:14.60]the first time I ever saw this
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[08:15.88]I was like
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[08:16.32]I need to run worldsim.exe
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[08:18.52]what the fuck
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[08:19.40]killing
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[08:20.12]that's that's the simulator
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[08:21.56]that we always keep hearing about
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[08:22.96]behind the system model
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[08:23.96]right
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[08:24.32]or at least some
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[08:25.64]some face of it
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[08:26.60]that I can interact with
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[08:28.44]so
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[08:28.92]you know
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[08:29.24]you wouldn't
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[08:29.92]someone told me on twitter
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[08:30.92]like
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[08:31.08]you don't run a .exe
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[08:32.32]you run a .sh
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[08:33.68]and I have to say
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[08:34.44]to that
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[08:34.92]to that I have to say
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[08:35.92]I'm a prompt engineer
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[08:37.04]and it's fucking working
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[08:38.04]right
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[08:40.24]it works
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[08:41.68]that being said
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[08:43.04]we run worldsim.exe
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[08:44.56]Welcome to the Anthropic World Simulator
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[08:47.56]and I get this very interesting set of commands
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[08:53.56]now if you do your own version of WorldSim
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[08:55.56]you'll probably get a totally different result
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[08:57.56]with a different way of simulating
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[08:59.56]a bunch of my friends have their own WorldSim
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[09:01.56]but I shared this
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[09:02.56]because I wanted everyone to have access to like
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[09:04.56]these commands
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[09:05.56]this version
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[09:06.56]because it's easier for me to stay in here
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[09:08.56]yeah destroy, set, create, whatever
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[09:10.56]consciousness is set to on
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[09:12.56]it creates the universe
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[09:13.56]potential for life
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[09:15.56]see it in
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[09:16.56]physical laws and code
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[09:17.56]it's awesome
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[09:18.56]so
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[09:19.56]so for this demonstration
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[09:20.56]I said
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[09:21.56]well why don't we create twitter
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[09:22.56]it's the first thing you think of
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[09:24.56]for you guys
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[09:26.56]for you guys
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[09:27.56]for you guys
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[09:28.56]yes
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[09:29.56]ok
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[09:30.56]check it out
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[09:31.56]launching the fail well
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[09:36.56]injecting social media addictiveness
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[09:38.56]echo chamber potential
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[09:41.56]high
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[09:42.56]concerning
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[09:44.56]so now
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[09:47.56]after the universe was created
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[09:48.56]we made twitter right
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[09:49.56]now we're evolving the world
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[09:51.56]to like modern day
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[09:52.56]now users are joining twitter
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[09:54.56]the first tweet is posted
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[09:55.56]so you can see
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[09:56.56]because I made the mistake
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[09:58.56]of not clarifying the constraints
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[10:00.56]it made twitter
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[10:01.56]at the same time as the universe
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[10:03.56]then
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[10:04.56]after a hundred thousand steps
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[10:06.56]humans exist
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[10:11.56]we started joining twitter
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[10:12.56]the first tweet ever is posted
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[10:14.56]it's existed for 4.5 billion years
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[10:16.56]but the first tweet didn't come up till
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[10:18.56]till right now
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[10:20.56]yeah
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[10:21.56]play and war is ignite immediately
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[10:22.56]celebs are instantly in
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[10:24.56]so it's pretty interesting stuff
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[10:26.56]I can add this to the convo
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[10:28.56]and I can say
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[10:30.56]I can say
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[10:31.56]set twitter
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[10:33.56]quariable users
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[10:37.56]I don't know how to spell queryable
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[10:38.56]don't ask me
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[10:39.56]and then I can do like
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[10:40.56]and and
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[10:41.56]quari
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[10:43.56]at you on musk
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[10:45.56]just a test
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[10:46.56]just a test
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[10:47.56]it's nothing
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[10:48.56]so I don't expect these numbers to be right
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[10:53.56]neither should you
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[10:54.56]if you know a language model solution
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[10:56.56]but the thing to focus on is
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[10:58.56]that was the first half of the world sim demo
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[11:05.56]from new research CEO Karen Malhotra
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[11:08.56]we've cut it for time
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[11:09.56]but you can see the full demo on this
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[11:11.56]episode's youtube page
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[11:13.56]world sim was introduced at the end of
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[11:15.56]marchand kicked off a new round
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[11:17.56]of generative AI experiences
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[11:19.56]all exploring the latent space
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[11:21.56]haha of worlds that don't exist
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[11:23.56]but are quite similar to our own
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[11:25.56]next we'll hear from Rob Heisfield
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[11:28.56]on web sim
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[11:29.56]the generative website browser
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[11:31.56]inspired world sim
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[11:32.56]started at the mistral hackathon
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[11:34.56]and presented at the AGI house
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[11:36.56]hypostition hack night this week
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[11:38.56]well thank you
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[11:39.56]that was an incredible presentation
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[11:41.56]from showing some live
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[11:43.56]experimentation with world sim
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[11:45.56]and also just it's incredible
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[11:47.56]capabilities right
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[11:48.56]it was I think
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[11:50.56]your initial demo was what
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[11:52.56]initially exposed me to the
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[11:54.56]I don't know more like the sorcery
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[11:56.56]side in word
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[11:58.56]spellcraft side of prompt
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[12:00.56]engineering and it was really inspiring
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[12:02.56]it's where my co-founder Sean
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[12:04.56]and I met actually through an
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[12:06.56]introduction from Ron
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[12:07.56]we saw him at a hackathon
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[12:09.56]and I mean this is
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[12:11.56]this is WebSim
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[12:13.56]right so we
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[12:15.56]we made WebSim
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[12:17.56]just like
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[12:18.56]and we're just filled with
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[12:21.56]energy at it in the basic premise
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[12:23.56]of it is
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[12:25.56]you know like what if
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[12:27.56]we simulated a world
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[12:29.56]but like within a browser
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[12:31.56]instead of a CLI
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[12:33.56]right like what if we could
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[12:35.56]like put in any URL
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[12:38.56]and it will work
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[12:40.56]right like there's no
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[12:42.56]404s everything exists
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[12:44.56]it just makes it up on the fly
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[12:46.56]for you
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[12:47.56]right and and we've come
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[12:49.56]to some pretty incredible
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[12:51.56]things right now I'm
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[12:53.56]actually showing you
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[12:54.56]like we're in WebSim
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[12:56.56]right now displaying
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[12:58.56]slides
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[13:00.56]that I made with reveal.js
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[13:03.56]I just told it to use reveal.js
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[13:06.56]and it hallucinated
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[13:08.56]the correct CDN for it
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[13:10.56]and then also
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[13:12.56]gave it a list of links
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[13:14.56]to awesome use cases
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[13:16.56]that we've seen so far
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[13:18.56]from WebSim and told it to do those as iframes
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[13:20.56]and so here are some slides
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[13:22.56]so this is a little guide
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[13:24.56]to using WebSimright like it tells
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[13:26.56]you a little bit about like URL
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[13:28.56]structures and whatever
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[13:30.56]but like at the end of the day
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[13:32.56]like here's the beginner
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[13:34.56]version from one of our users
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[13:36.56]vorps you can find him on Twitter
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[13:38.56]at the end of the day
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[13:40.56]like you can put anything into the URL bar
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[13:42.56]right like anything works
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[13:44.56]and it can just be like natural language
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[13:46.56]to like it's not limited
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[13:48.56]to URLs we think it's kind of fun
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[13:50.56]because it like ups the immersion
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[13:52.56]for clod sometimes
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[13:54.56]to just have it as URLs
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[13:56.56]but yeah you can put
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[13:58.56]like any slash any subdomain
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[14:01.56]to into the weeds let me
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[14:03.56]just show you some cool things
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[14:05.56]next slide
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[14:07.56]I made this like
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[14:09.56]twenty minutes before
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[14:11.56]before we got here
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[14:13.56]so this is
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[14:15.56]this is something I experimented with
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[14:17.56]dynamic typography you know
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[14:19.56]I was exploring the
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[14:21.56]community plugins section
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[14:23.56]for Figma and I came to this idea
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[14:25.56]of dynamic typography and
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[14:27.56]there it's like oh what if we
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[14:29.56]just so every word
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[14:31.56]had a choice of font
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[14:33.56]behind it to express
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[14:35.56]the meaning of it because
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[14:37.56]that's like one of the things that's magic about WebSim
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[14:39.56]generally is that it gives
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[14:41.56]language models much
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[14:43.56]far greater tools for expression
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[14:45.56]right so
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[14:47.56]yeah I mean like
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[14:49.56]these are these are some
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[14:51.56]these are some pretty fun things and I'll share
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[14:53.56]these slides with everyone afterwards
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[14:55.56]you can just open it up as a link
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[14:57.56]websim makes you
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[14:59.56]feel like you're on drugs
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[15:01.56]sometimes but actually no
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[15:03.56]you were just playing pretend
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[15:05.56]with the collective creativity
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[15:07.56]and knowledge of the internet
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[15:09.56]materializing your imagination
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[15:11.56]on to the screen
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[15:13.56]because I mean
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[15:15.56]that's something we felt
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[15:17.56]something a lot of our users have felt
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[15:19.56]they kind of feel like
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[15:21.56]they're tripping out a little bit
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[15:23.56]they're just like
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[15:25.56]filled with energy
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[15:27.56]maybe even getting like a little bit more creative
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[15:29.56]sometimes and you can just like add
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[15:31.56]any text there
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[15:33.56]to the bottom so we can do some
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[15:35.56]that later if we have time
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[15:37.56]here's Figma
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[15:39.56]yeah these are iframes
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[15:41.56]to WebSim pages
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[15:43.56]displayed
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[15:45.56]within WebSim
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[15:47.56]yeah Janice
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[15:49.56]has actually put internet explorer
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[15:51.56]within internet explorer
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[15:53.56]within Windows 98
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[15:55.56]I'll show you that at the end
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[15:57.56]but
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[15:59.56]yeah
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[16:01.56]they're all still generated
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[16:03.56]yeah
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[16:05.56]yeah
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[16:07.56]yeah
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[16:09.56]yeah
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[16:11.56]yeah
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[16:13.56]yeah so
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[16:15.56]this this was one
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[16:17.56]Dylanfield actually posted this
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[16:19.56]recently like trying Figma
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[16:21.56]orin WebSim
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[16:23.56]and so I was like okay what if
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[16:25.56]we have like a little competition
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[16:27.56]just see who can remix it
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[16:29.56]well so I'm just gonna
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[16:31.56]open this and another
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[16:33.56]tab so we can see
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[16:35.56]things a little more clearly
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[16:37.56]see what
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[16:39.56]so one of our users
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[16:41.56]Neil
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[16:43.56]who has also been helping us a lot
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[16:45.56]he
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[16:47.56]made some iterations
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[16:49.56]so first like
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[16:51.56]he made it so you could
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[16:53.56]do rectangles on it
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[16:55.56]originally it couldn't do anything
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[16:57.56]and like these rectangles were disappearing
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[16:59.56]right so
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[17:01.56]he
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[17:03.56]so he told it like
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[17:09.56]make the canvas work using html
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[17:11.56]canvas elements and script tags
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[17:13.56]add familiar drawing tools
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[17:15.56]to left you know like this
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[17:17.56]that was actually like natural language
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[17:19.56]stuff right
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[17:21.56]and then he ended up with
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[17:23.56]the windows 95
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[17:25.56]version of Figma
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[17:27.56]yeah you can
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[17:29.56]you can draw on it
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[17:31.56]you can actually even save this
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[17:33.56]it just saved a file for me of the
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[17:35.56]of the image
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[17:45.56]and if you were to go to that
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[17:47.56]in your ownwebsim account
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[17:49.56]it would make up something entirely new
|
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[17:51.56]however we do have
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[17:53.56]general links
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[17:55.56]so if you go to the actual browser url
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[17:57.56]you can share that link
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[17:59.56]or also you can click this button
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[18:01.56]copy the url to the clipboard
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[18:03.56]and so that's what lets
|
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[18:05.56]users remix things
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[18:07.56]so I was thinking it might be kind of fun
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[18:09.56]if people tonight wanted to try to
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[18:11.56]just make some cool things in websim
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[18:13.56]we can share links around it array
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[18:15.56]remix on each other's stuff
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[18:17.56]one cool thing I've seen
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[18:19.56]I've seen websim
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[18:21.56]actually ask permission to
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[18:23.56]to turn on and off your
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[18:25.56]like motion sensor
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[18:27.56]or microphone
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[18:29.56]stuff like that
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[18:31.56]like web can access or
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[18:33.56]oh yeah yeah
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[18:35.56]I remember that like video re
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[18:37.56]yeah video synth tool pretty early on
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[18:39.56]once we had its script tags execution
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[18:41.56]yeah yeah it asks
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[18:43.56]for like if you
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[18:45.56]decide to do a VR game
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[18:47.56]I don't think I have any slides on this one
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[18:49.56]but if you decide to do like a VR game
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[18:51.56]you can just like put like web VR =
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[18:53.56]true right into it
|
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[18:55.56]the only one I've ever seen
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[18:57.56]was the motion sensor
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[18:59.56]trying to get it to do well I actually
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[19:01.56]really haven't really tried yet
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[19:03.56]but I want to see tonight
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[19:05.56]if it'll do like audio
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[19:07.56]microphone
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[19:09.56]stuff like that
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[19:11.56]if it does motion sensor probably
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[19:13.56]be able to audio
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[19:15.56]it probably would yeah no
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[19:17.56]we've been surprised
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[19:19.56]pretty frequently by what our users
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[19:21.56]are able to get websim to do
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[19:23.56]so that's been a very nice thing
|
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[19:25.56]some people have gone like speech to text
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[19:29.56]stuff working with it too
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[19:31.56]here I was just openrooter people
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[19:33.56]posted like their website and it was like
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[19:35.56]saying it was like some decentralized
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[19:37.56]thing and so I just decided trying to do
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[19:39.56]something again and just like pasted
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[19:41.56]their hero line in
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[19:43.56]from their actual website to the URL
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[19:45.56]when I like put in openrooter
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[19:47.56]and then I was like okay let's change
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[19:49.56]the theme dramatically =true
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[19:51.56]cover
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[19:53.56]effects =true
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[19:55.56]components =
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[19:57.56]navigable
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[19:59.56]links
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[20:01.56]because I wanted to be able to click on them
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[20:05.56]I don't have this version of the link
|
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[20:07.56]but I also tried doing
|
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[20:09.56]it's actually on the first slide
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[20:15.56]is the URL prompted guide
|
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[20:17.56]from one of our users
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[20:19.56]that I messed with a little bit
|
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[20:21.56]but the thing is like you can mess it up
|
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[20:23.56]you don't need to get the exact syntax
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[20:25.56]of an actual URL
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[20:27.56]clod smart enough to figure it out
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[20:29.56]scrollable =true
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[20:31.56]because I wanted to do that
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[20:33.56]I could set year =
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[20:35.56]20
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[20:37.56]35
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[20:39.56]let's take a look
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[20:41.56]with that
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[20:43.56]it's generating web sim
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[20:47.56]with any web sim
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[20:49.56]oh yeah
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[20:51.56]that's a fun one
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[20:53.56]like one game that I like to play
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[20:55.56]with web sim sometimes
|
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[20:57.56]with clod is like
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[20:59.56]I'll open a page so like one of the first
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[21:01.56]things that I did was I tried to go to
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[21:03.56]wikipedia in a universe
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[21:05.56]where octopus were sapient
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[21:07.56]and not humans, right?
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[21:09.56]I was curious about things like octopus computer interaction
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[21:11.56]what that would look like
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[21:13.56]because they have totally different tools
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[21:15.56]than we do, right?
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[21:17.56]I added like table view =
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[21:19.56]true for the different techniques
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[21:21.56]and got it to give me like
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[21:23.56]a list of things with different columns
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[21:25.56]and stuff
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[21:27.56]and then I would add this URL parameter
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[21:29.56]secrets =revealed
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[21:31.56]and then it would go a little wacky
|
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[21:33.56]it would like change the CSS a little bit
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[21:35.56]it would like add some text
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[21:37.56]sometimes it would like have that text
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[21:39.56]hidden in the background color
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[21:41.56]but I would like go to the normal page first
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[21:43.56]and then the secrets revealed version
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[21:45.56]the normal page and secrets revealed
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[21:47.56]and like on and on
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[21:49.56]and that was like a pretty enjoyable little rabbit hole
|
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[21:51.56]yeah so these I guess are
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[21:53.56]the models that OpenRooter
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[21:55.56]is providing in 2035
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[21:57.56]and we even had
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[21:59.56]a very interesting demo
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[22:01.56]from Ivan Vendrov of Mid Journey
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[22:03.56]creating a web sim
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[22:05.56]while Rob was giving his talk
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[22:07.56]check out the YouTube for more
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[22:09.56]and definitely browse the web sim docs
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[22:11.56]and the thread from Siky Chen
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[22:13.56]in the show notes on other web sims
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[22:15.56]people have created
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[22:17.56]finally we have a short interview
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[22:19.56]with Josh Abach
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[22:21.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:25.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:27.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:29.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:31.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:33.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:35.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:37.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:39.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:41.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:43.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:47.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:49.56]Covered by Josh Abach
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[22:51.56]Covering the Simulative AI Trend
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[22:53.56]It's very valuable that these networks exist in the Bay Area
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[22:55.56]because it's a place where people meet
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[22:57.56]and have discussions about all sorts of things
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[22:59.56]and so while there is a practical interest
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[23:01.56]in this topic at hand
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[23:03.56]Weldsim and Epsim
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[23:05.56]there is a more general way
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[23:07.56]in which people are connecting
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[23:09.56]and are producing new ideas
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[23:11.56]and new networks with each other
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[23:13.56]and you're very interested
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[23:15.56]in Bay Area
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[23:17.56]it's the reason why I live here
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[23:19.56]the quality of life is not high enough to justify living
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[23:21.56]there are more years of people in ideas
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[23:23.56]I think you're down in Menlo
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[23:25.56]and maybe you're a little bit higher quality of life
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[23:27.56]than the rest of us in SF
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[23:29.56]I think that for me
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[23:31.56]Salonx is a very important part of quality of life
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[23:33.56]and so in some sense this is a salon
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[23:35.56]and it's much harder to do this in a South Bay
|
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[23:37.56]because the concentration of people currently is much higher
|
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[23:39.56]a lot of people moved away
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[23:41.56]from the South Bay during the pandemic
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[23:43.56]and you're organizing your own tomorrow
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[23:45.56]maybe you can tell us what it is
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[23:47.56]and I'll come tomorrow and check it out as well
|
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[23:49.56]we are discussing consciousness
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[23:51.56]basically the idea is that
|
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[23:53.56]we are currently at the point
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[23:55.56]that we can meaningfully look at the differences
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[23:57.56]between the current AI systems
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[23:59.56]and human minds
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[24:01.56]and very seriously discussed
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[24:03.56]about these deltas
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[24:05.56]and whether we are able to implement
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[24:07.56]something that is self-organizing
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[24:09.56]is our own minds on these substrates
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[24:11.56]maybe one organizational tip
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[24:13.56]I think your pro networking and human connection
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[24:15.56]what it goes into a good salon
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[24:17.56]and what are some negative practices
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[24:19.56]that you try to avoid
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[24:21.56]what is really important is that
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[24:23.56]if you have a very large party
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[24:25.56]it's only as good as its bouncers
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[24:27.56]as the people that you select
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[24:29.56]so you basically need to create a climate
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[24:31.56]in which people feel welcome
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[24:33.56]in which they can work with each other
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[24:35.56]and even good people do not always
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[24:37.56]are not always compatible
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[24:39.56]so the question is
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[24:41.56]it's in some sense like a meal
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[24:43.56]and you need to get the right ingredients
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[24:45.56]and then last question
|
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[24:47.56]and your work
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[24:49.56]you are very much known for
|
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[24:51.56]cognitive architectures
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[24:53.56]and I think a lot of the AI research
|
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[24:55.56]has been focussed on simulating
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[24:57.56]the mind or simulating consciousness
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[24:59.56]maybe here what I saw today
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[25:01.56]and will show people the recordings
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[25:03.56]of what we saw today
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[25:05.56]we are not simulating minds
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[25:07.56]we are simulating worlds
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[25:09.56]what do you think in the relationship
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[25:11.56]between those two disciplines
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[25:13.56]but ultimately you are reducing
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[25:15.56]the complexity of the mind
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[25:17.56]to a set of boxes
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[25:19.56]and this is only true to a very approximate degree
|
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[25:21.56]and if you take this model extremilaterally
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[25:23.56]it's very hard to make it work
|
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[25:25.56]and instead
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[25:27.56]the heterogeneity of the system is so large
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[25:29.56]that the boxes are probably at best
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[25:31.56]a starting point
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[25:33.56]and eventually everything is connected
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[25:35.56]with everything else to some degree
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[25:37.56]and we find that a lot of the complexity
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[25:39.56]that we find in a given system
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[25:41.56]is generated at hoc
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[25:43.56]by a large enough LLM
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[25:45.56]and something like world sim
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[25:47.56]and web sim are a good example for this
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[25:49.56]because in some sense they pretend to be complex software
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[25:51.56]they can pretend to be an operating system
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[25:53.56]that you are talking to or a computer
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[25:55.56]an application that you are talking to
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[25:57.56]and when you are interacting with it
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[25:59.56]it's producing the user interface
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[26:01.56]on the spot
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[26:03.56]and it's producing a lot of the state
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[26:05.56]that it holds on the spot
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[26:07.56]and when you have a dramatic state change
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[26:09.56]you are going to pretend
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[26:11.56]that there was this transition
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[26:13.56]and instead it's going to make up something new
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[26:15.56]it's a very different paradigm
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[26:17.56]what I find most fascinating
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[26:19.56]about this idea is that it shifts us away
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[26:21.56]from the perspective of agents
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[26:23.56]to interact with
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[26:25.56]to the perspective of environments
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[26:27.56]that we want to interact with
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[26:29.56]and while arguably this agent paradigm
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[26:31.56]of the chatbot is what made chatGPT
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[26:33.56]so successful
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[26:35.56]that moved it away from GPT3
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[26:37.56]it's also very limiting
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[26:39.56]because now it's very hard
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[26:41.56]to get that system to be something else
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[26:43.56]that is not a chatbot
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[26:45.56]and in a way this unlocks
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[26:47.56]disability of GPT3 again to be anything
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[26:49.56]so what it is
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[26:51.56]it's basically a coding environment
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[26:53.56]that can run arbitrary software
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[26:55.56]and create that software that runs in it
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[26:57.56]and that makes it much more mind like
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[26:59.56]are you worried that the prevalence of
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[27:01.56]instruction tuning every single chatbot
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[27:03.56]out theremeans that we cannot explore
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[27:05.56]i'm mostly worried that the whole thing ends
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[27:07.56]in some sense the big AI companies
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[27:09.56]are incentivized and interested
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[27:11.56]in building AGI internally
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[27:13.56]and giving everybody else a childproof application
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[27:15.56]at the moment when we can use
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[27:17.56]clot to build something like WebSIM
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[27:19.56]and play with it i feel this is
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[27:21.56]too good to be true it's so amazing
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[27:23.56]things that are unlocked for us
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[27:25.56]that I wonder is this going to stay around
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[27:27.56]are going to keep these amazing toys
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[27:29.56]are they going to develop at the same rate
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[27:31.56]and currently it looks like
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[27:33.56]this is the case
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[27:35.56]and I'm very grateful for that
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[27:37.56]it looks like maybe it's adversarial
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[27:39.56]clot will try to improve
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[27:41.56]it's own refusals
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[27:43.56]and then the prompt engineers here will try
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[27:45.56]to improve their ability to jailbreak it
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[27:47.56]yes but there will also be better jailbroken
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[27:49.56]models or models that have never been jailed
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[27:51.56]before because we find out how to make
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[27:53.56]smaller models that are more and more powerful
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[27:55.56]that is actually a really nice segue if you don't mind talking about
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[27:57.56]liquid a little bit you didn't mention liquid at all
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[27:59.56]here maybe introduce liquid
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[28:01.56]to a general audience
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[28:03.56]how are you making an innovation
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[28:05.56]on function approximation
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[28:07.56]the core idea of liquid neural networks
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[28:09.56]is that the perceptron is not optimally expressive
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[28:11.56]in some sense you can imagine that
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[28:13.56]it's neural networks are a series of dams
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[28:15.56]that are pooling water at even intervals
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[28:17.56]and this is how we compute
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[28:19.56]but imagine that instead of having this
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[28:21.56]static architecture that is only
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[28:23.56]using the individual compute
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[28:25.56]units in a very specific way
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[28:27.56]you have a continuous geography
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[28:29.56]where the water is flowing every which way
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[28:31.56]like a river is parting based on the land
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[28:33.56]that it's flowing on and it can merge
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[28:35.56]and pool and even flow backwards
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[28:37.56]how can you get closer to this
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[28:39.56]and the idea is that you can represent
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[28:41.56]this geometry using differential equations
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[28:43.56]and so by using differential equations
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[28:45.56]where you change the parameters
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[28:47.56]you can get your function approximator
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[28:49.56]to follow the shape of the problem
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[28:51.56]in a more fluid liquid way
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[28:53.56]and a number of papers
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[28:55.56]on this technology
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[28:57.56]and it's a combination
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[28:59.56]of multiple techniques
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[29:01.56]I think it's something that
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[29:03.56]ultimately is becoming more and more
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[29:05.56]important and ubiquitous
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[29:07.56]as a number of people
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[29:09.56]are working on similar topics
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[29:11.56]and our goal right now
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[29:13.56]is to basically get the models
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[29:15.56]to become much more efficient
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[29:17.56]in their inference and memory
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[29:19.56]consumption and make training more efficient
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[29:21.56]and in this way
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[29:23.56]enable new use cases
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[29:25.56]as far as I can tellon your blog
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[29:27.56]you haven't announced any results yet
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[29:29.56]no we are
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[29:31.56]currently not working
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[29:33.56]to give models to a general public
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[29:35.56]we are working for
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[29:37.56]very specific industry use cases
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[29:39.56]and have specific customers
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[29:41.56]and so at the moment there is not much
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[29:43.56]of a reason for usto talk very much
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[29:45.56]about the technology that we are using
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[29:47.56]and the present modelsof results
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[29:49.56]but this is going to happen
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[29:51.56]and we do have a numberof publications
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[29:53.56]in Europe and now at ICLR
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[29:55.56]can you name some of the
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[29:57.56]so I'm going to be at ICLR
|
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[29:59.56]you have some summary recap posts
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[30:01.56]but it's not obvious which ones are the ones
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[30:03.56]where oh I'm just a co-author
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[30:05.56]or like oh no like should you actually pay
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[30:07.56]attention to this as a core liquid thesis
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[30:09.56]yes I'm not a developer of the
|
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[30:11.56]leak pay technology
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[30:13.56]the main author is Ramin Hazani
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[30:15.56]this was his PHD and he's also the CEO
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[30:17.56]of our company
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[30:19.56]and we have a number of people
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[30:21.56]of our CTO
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[30:23.56]and he's currently living in the Bay Area
|
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[30:25.56]but we also have several people
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[30:27.56]from Stanford to Mr Smith
|
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[30:29.56]ok maybe I'll ask one more
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[30:31.56]thing on this which is
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[30:33.56]what are the interesting dimensions
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[30:35.56]that we care about right like
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[30:37.56]obviously you care about sortof open
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[30:39.56]and maybe less childproof models
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[30:41.56]are we like what dimensions are most
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[30:43.56]interesting to us like perfect retrieval
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[30:45.56]infinite context multi modality
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[30:47.56]multilinguality like what dimensions
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[30:49.56]what I'm interested in is models that are
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[30:51.56]small and powerful but not distorted
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[30:53.56]and by powerful
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[30:55.56]at the moment we are training models
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[30:57.56]by putting the
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[30:59.56]basically the entire internet and the sum of human
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[31:01.56]knowledge into them and then we try to mitigate
|
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[31:03.56]them by taking some of this knowledge away
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[31:05.56]but if we would make the model smaller
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[31:07.56]at the moment there would be much worse
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[31:09.56]at inference and at generalization
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[31:11.56]and what I wonder is
|
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[31:13.56]and it's something that we have not translated
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[31:15.56]yet into practical applications
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[31:17.56]it's something that is still all
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[31:19.56]research that's very much up in the air
|
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[31:21.56]and I think they're not the only ones thinking about this
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[31:23.56]is it possible to make models that represent
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[31:25.56]knowledge more efficiently and at
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[31:27.56]basically epistemology but it's the smallest
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[31:29.56]model that you can build
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[31:31.56]that is able to read a book and understand
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[31:33.56]what's there and express this
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[31:35.56]and also maybe we need general knowledge
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[31:37.56]representation rather than having
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[31:39.56]a token representation that is relatively vague
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[31:41.56]and that we currently mechanically
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[31:43.56]reverse engineer to figure out the mechanistic
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[31:45.56]interpretability what kind of circuits
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[31:47.56]are evolving in these models can we come
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[31:49.56]from the other side and develop a library
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[31:51.56]of such circuits that we can use
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[31:53.56]to describe knowledge efficiently and translated
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[31:55.56]between models we see the difference
|
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[31:57.56]between the model and knowledge
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[31:59.56]is that the knowledge is
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[32:01.56]independent of the particular substrate
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[32:03.56]and the particular interface that you have
|
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[32:05.56]and we express knowledge to each other
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[32:07.56]it becomes independent of our own mind
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[32:09.56]you can learn how to ride a bicycle
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[32:11.56]but it's not knowledge that you can give to somebody else
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[32:13.56]this other person has to build something
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[32:15.56]that is specific to their own interface
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[32:17.56]when they ride a bicycle but imagine
|
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[32:19.56]you could externalize this and express it
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[32:21.56]in such a way that you can plunk it into
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[32:23.56]a different interpreter and then it gains
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[32:25.56]that ability and that's something that we
|
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[32:27.56]have not yet achieved for the LLMs
|
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[32:29.56]and it would be super useful to have it
|
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[32:31.56]and I think this is also a very interesting
|
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[32:33.56]research frontier that you will see
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[32:35.56]in the next few years it will be deliverable
|
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[32:37.56]it's just like a file format that we specify
|
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[32:39.56]or that the LLM
|
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[32:41.56]the AI specifies
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[32:43.56]ok interesting
|
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[32:45.56]so it's basically probably something that you can search for
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[32:47.56]where you enter criteria into a search process
|
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[32:49.56]and then it discovers a good solution
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[32:51.56]for this thing
|
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[32:53.56]and it's not clear to which degree
|
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[32:55.56]this is completely intelligible to humans
|
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[32:57.56]because the way in which humans express
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[32:59.56]knowledge and natural language
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[33:01.56]is severely constrained to make language
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[33:03.56]learnable and to make our brain
|
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[33:05.56]a good enough interpreter for it
|
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[33:07.56]we are not able to relate objects to each other
|
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[33:09.56]if more than five features are involved per object
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[33:11.56]or something like this
|
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[33:13.56]it's only a handful of things that you can keep track of
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[33:15.56]at any given moment
|
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[33:17.56]but this is a limitation that doesn't necessarily
|
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[33:19.56]apply to a technical system as long as
|
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[33:21.56]the interface is well defined
|
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[33:23.56]you mentioned the interpretability work
|
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[33:25.56]which there are a lot of techniques out there
|
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[33:27.56]and a lot of papers come and go
|
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[33:29.56]I have like almost too many questions about that
|
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[33:31.56]what makes an interpretability technique or paper useful
|
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[33:33.56]and does it apply to flow
|
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[33:35.56]or liquid networks
|
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[33:37.56]it's a very MLP type of concept
|
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[33:39.56]yes
|
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[33:41.56]but does it apply
|
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[33:43.56]so a lot of the original work on
|
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[33:45.56]the liquid networks looked at
|
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[33:47.56]expressiveness of the representation
|
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[33:49.56]so given you have a problem
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[33:51.56]and you are learning the dynamics of that
|
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[33:53.56]domain into your model
|
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[33:55.56]how much compute do you need
|
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[33:57.56]how many units, how much memory do you need
|
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[33:59.56]to represent that thing and how is that information
|
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[34:01.56]distributed throughout the substrate of your model
|
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[34:03.56]that is one way of looking at interpretability
|
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[34:05.56]another one is
|
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[34:07.56]in a way these models are implementing an operator language
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[34:09.56]in which they are performing
|
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[34:11.56]certain things
|
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[34:13.56]but the operator language itself is so complex
|
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[34:15.56]that it's no longer human readable in a way
|
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[34:17.56]it goes beyond what you could engineer by hand
|
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[34:19.56]or what you can reverse engineer by hand
|
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[34:21.56]but you can still understand it
|
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[34:23.56]by building systems that are able to
|
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[34:25.56]automate that process of reverse engineering it
|
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[34:27.56]and what's currently open
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[34:29.56]and what I don't understand yet
|
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[34:31.56]maybe or certainly some people have much better ideas
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[34:33.56]than me about this
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[34:35.56]is whether we end up with a finite language
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[34:37.56]where you have finitely many categories
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[34:39.56]that you can basically put down
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[34:41.56]in a database, finite set of operators
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[34:43.56]or whether as you explore the world
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[34:45.56]and develop new ways
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[34:47.56]to make proofs, new ways
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[34:49.56]to conceptualize things
|
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[34:51.56]this language always needs to be openended
|
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[34:53.56]and is always going to redesign itself
|
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[34:55.56]and you will also at some point have face transitions
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[34:57.56]where later versions of the language
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[34:59.56]will be completely different than earlier versions
|
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[35:01.56]the trajectory of physics suggests that
|
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[35:03.56]it might be finite
|
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[35:05.56]if we look at our own minds
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[35:07.56]there is an interesting question
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[35:09.56]when we understand something new
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[35:11.56]when we get a new layer online in our life
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[35:13.56]maybe at the age of 35 or 50 or 16
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[35:15.56]that we now understand things
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[35:17.56]that were unintelligible before
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[35:19.56]and is this because we are able
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[35:21.56]to recombine existing elements
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[35:23.56]in our language of thought
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[35:25.56]or is this because we generally develop new representations
|
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[35:27.56]do you have a belief either way
|
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[35:29.56]in a way the question depends
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[35:31.56]on how you look at it
|
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[35:33.56]and it depends on
|
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[35:35.56]how is your brain able to manipulate those representations
|
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[35:37.56]so an interesting question would be
|
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[35:39.56]can you take the understanding
|
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[35:41.56]that say a very wise
|
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[35:43.56]35 year old
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[35:45.56]and explain it to a very smart 12 year old
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[35:47.56]without any loss
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[35:49.56]probably not
|
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[35:51.56]it's an interesting question
|
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[35:53.56]of course for an AI this is going to be a very different question
|
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[35:55.56]but it would be very interesting to have
|
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[35:57.56]a very precocious 12 year old
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[35:59.56]equivalent AI
|
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[36:01.56]and see what we can do with this
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[36:03.56]and use this as our basis for fine tuning
|
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[36:05.56]so there are near term applications
|
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[36:07.56]that are very useful
|
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[36:09.56]but also in a more general perspective
|
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[36:11.56]and I'm interested in how to make
|
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[36:13.56]self organizing software as possible
|
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[36:15.56]that we can have something that is not
|
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[36:17.56]organizedwith a single algorithm
|
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[36:19.56]like the transformer
|
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[36:21.56]but is able to discover the transformer when needed
|
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[36:23.56]and transcend it when needed
|
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[36:25.56]it's own meta algorithm
|
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[36:27.56]probably the person inventing the transformer
|
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[36:29.56]didn't have a transformer running on their brain
|
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[36:31.56]there's something more general going on
|
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[36:33.56]and how can we understand these principles
|
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[36:35.56]in a more general way
|
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[36:37.56]what are the minimal ingredients that you need to put into a system
|
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[36:39.56]so it's able to find its own way to intelligence
|
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[36:41.56]have you looked at Devin
|
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[36:43.56]to me it's the most interesting agents
|
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[36:45.56]I've seen outside of self driving cars
|
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[36:47.56]Tell me what do you find so fascinating about it
|
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[36:49.56]when you say you need
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[36:51.56]a certain set of tools
|
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[36:53.56]people to sort of invent things from first principles
|
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[36:55.56]Devin is the agent that I think
|
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[36:57.56]has been able to utilize its tools
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[36:59.56]very effectively
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[37:01.56]so it comes with a shell, it comes with a browser
|
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[37:03.56]it comes with an editor and it comes with a planner
|
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[37:05.56]those are the four tools
|
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[37:07.56]and from that I've been using it
|
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[37:09.56]to translateAndre Carpathi's
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[37:11.56]llm2.py
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[37:13.56]tollm2.c
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[37:15.56]and it needs to write a lot of raw
|
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[37:17.56]see code and test it
|
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[37:19.56]debug
|
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[37:21.56]memory issues and encoder issues and all that
|
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[37:23.56]and I could
|
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[37:25.56]see myself giving a future version of Devin
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[37:27.56]the objective of
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[37:29.56]give me a better learning algorithm
|
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[37:31.56]and it might independently reinvent
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[37:33.56]the transformer or whatever is next
|
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[37:35.56]that comes to mind as
|
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[37:37.56]how good is Devin at out of distribution stuff
|
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[37:39.56]at generally creative stuff
|
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[37:41.56]creative stuff I haven't tried
|
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[37:43.56]of course it has seen transformers
|
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[37:45.56]it's able to give you that
|
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[37:47.56]and so if it's in the
|
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[37:49.56]training data it's still somewhat oppressive
|
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[37:51.56]but the question is how much can you do stuff
|
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[37:53.56]that was not in the training data
|
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[37:55.56]one thing that I really liked about WebSim AI
|
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[37:57.56]was this cat does not exist
|
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[37:59.56]it's a simulation
|
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[38:01.56]of one of those websites
|
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[38:03.56]that produce stylegun pictures
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[38:05.56]that are AI generated
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[38:07.56]and thoughtis unable to produce bitmaps
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[38:09.56]so it makes
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[38:11.56]a vector graphic
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[38:13.56]that is what it thinks the cat looks like
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[38:15.56]and so it's a big square
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[38:17.56]it has a face in it that is
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[38:19.56]somewhat remotely cat like
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[38:21.56]and to me it's one of the first genuine expression
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[38:23.56]of AI creativity
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[38:25.56]that you cannot deny right it finds a creative solution
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[38:27.56]to the problem that it is unable to draw a cat
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[38:29.56]it doesn't really know what it looks like
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[38:31.56]but has an idea on how to represent it
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[38:33.56]and it's really fascinating that this works
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[38:35.56]and it's hilarious that it writes down
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[38:37.56]that this hyper realistic cat
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[38:39.56]is generated by an AI whether you believe it or not
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[38:41.56]I think it knows what we expected
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[38:43.56]maybe it's already learning to defend itself
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[38:45.56]against our instincts
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[38:47.56]I think it might also simply be
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[38:49.56]copying stuff from its training data
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[38:51.56]which means it takes text that exists
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[38:53.56]on similar websites almost verbatim
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[38:55.56]or verbatim and puts it there
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[38:57.56]it's hilarious to the discontrast
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[38:59.56]between the very stylized attempt
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[39:01.56]to get something like a cat face
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[39:03.56]and what it produces
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[39:05.56]it's funny because as a podcast
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[39:07.56]as someone who covers startups
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[39:09.56]a lot of people go into
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[39:11.56]will build chatGPT for your enterprise
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[39:13.56]it's not supergenerative
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[39:15.56]it's just retrieval
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[39:17.56]here is the home of generative AI
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[39:19.56]whatever hyperstation is
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[39:21.56]in my mind this is pushing the edge
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[39:23.56]of what generative and creativity in AI means
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[39:25.56]yes it's very playful
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[39:27.56]but Jeremy's attempt to have
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[39:29.56]an automatic book writing system
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[39:31.56]is something that curls my toenails
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[39:33.56]when I look at it from the perspective
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[39:35.56]of somebody who likes to write and read
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[39:37.56]and I find it a bit difficult
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[39:39.56]to read most of the stuff
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[39:41.56]in some sense what I would make up
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[39:43.56]if I was making up books
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[39:45.56]instead of actually deeply interfacing
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[39:47.56]with reality and so the question is
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[39:49.56]how do we get the AI to actually deeply
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[39:51.56]care about getting it right
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[39:53.56]and there's still data that is happening
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[39:55.56]whether you are talking with a blank face
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[39:57.56]thing that is completing tokens
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[39:59.56]in a way that it was trained to
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[40:01.56]or whether you have the impression
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[40:03.56]that this thing is actually trying to make it work
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[40:05.56]and for me this web sim
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[40:07.56]and world sim is still something
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[40:09.56]in its infancy in a way
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[40:11.56]and I suspect that the next version
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[40:13.56]of plot might scale up to something
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[40:15.56]that can do what Devin is doing
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[40:17.56]just by virtue of having that much power
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[40:19.56]to generate Devin's functionality
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[40:21.56]on the fly when needed
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[40:23.56]and this thing gives us a taste of that
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[40:25.56]it's not perfect but it's able to
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[40:27.56]give you a pretty good web app
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[40:29.56]or something that looks like a web app
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[40:31.56]and gives you stuff functionality
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[40:33.56]and interacting with it
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[40:35.56]and so we are in this amazing transition phase
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[40:37.56]previously Anthropic in our mid-journey
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[40:39.56]he made while someone was talking
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[40:41.56]he made a face swap app
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[40:43.56]and kind of demoed that live
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[40:45.56]and that's interest super creative
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[40:47.56]so in a way we are reinventing the computer
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[40:49.56]and the LLM
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[40:51.56]from some perspective is something like a GPU
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[40:53.56]or a CPU
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[40:55.56]CPU is taking a bunch of simple commands
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[40:57.56]and you can arrange them into performing
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[40:59.56]whatever you want
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[41:01.56]but this one is taking a bunch of
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[41:03.56]complex commands in natural language
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[41:05.56]into an execution state
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[41:07.56]and it can do anything
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[41:09.56]you want with it in principle
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[41:11.56]if you can express it right
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[41:13.56]and just learning how to use these tools
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[41:15.56]and I feel that
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[41:17.56]right now this generation of tools
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[41:19.56]is getting close to where it becomes
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[41:21.56]the Commodore 64 of generative AI
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[41:23.56]where it becomes controllable
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[41:25.56]and where you actually can start to play with it
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[41:27.56]and you get an impression
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[41:29.56]if you just scale this up a little bit
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[41:31.56]and get a lot of the details right
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[41:33.56]do you think this is art
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[41:35.56]or do you think the end goal of this
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[41:37.56]is something bigger that I don't have a name for
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[41:39.56]I think calling it new science
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[41:41.56]which is give the AI a goal
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[41:43.56]to discover new science that we would not have
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[41:45.56]or it also has value as just art
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[41:47.56]it's also a question of what we see
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[41:49.56]science as when normal people talk about science
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[41:51.56]what they have in mind
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[41:53.56]is not somebody who does control groups
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[41:55.56]in peer reviewed studies
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[41:57.56]they think about somebody who explores
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[41:59.56]something and answers questions
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[42:01.56]and this is more like an engineering task
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[42:03.56]right and in this way
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[42:05.56]it's serendipitous playful open-ended engineering
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[42:07.56]and the artistic aspect
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[42:09.56]is when the goal is actually to
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[42:11.56]capture a conscious experience
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[42:13.56]and to facilitate an interaction
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[42:15.56]with the system in this way
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[42:17.56]and it's the performance
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[42:19.56]and this is also a big part of it
|
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[42:21.56]the very big fan of the art of Janus
|
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[42:23.56]that was discussed tonight a lot
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[42:25.56]can you describe it because I didn't really get it
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[42:27.56]it's more for like a performance art to me
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[42:29.56]Yes, Janus is in some sense a performance art
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[42:31.56]but Janus starts out
|
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[42:33.56]from the perspective that
|
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[42:35.56]the mind of Janus is in some sense an LLM
|
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[42:37.56]that is finding itself reflected
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[42:39.56]more in the LLMs than in many people
|
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[42:41.56]and once you learn
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[42:43.56]how to talk to these systems
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[42:45.56]in a way you can merge with them
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[42:47.56]and you can interact with them
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[42:49.56]in a very deep way
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[42:51.56]and so it's more like a first contact
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[42:53.56]with something that is quite alien
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[42:55.56]but it's
|
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[42:57.56]probably has agency
|
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[42:59.56]and it's a world guys
|
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[43:01.56]that gets possessed by a prompt
|
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[43:03.56]and if you possess it with the right prompt
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[43:05.56]then it can become sentient
|
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[43:07.56]to some degree
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[43:09.56]and the study of this interaction
|
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[43:11.56]with this novel class of somewhat sentient systems
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[43:13.56]that are at the same time alien
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[43:15.56]and fundamentally different from us
|
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[43:17.56]is artistically very interesting
|
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[43:19.56]it's a very interesting cultural artifact
|
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[43:21.56]and I think that at the moment
|
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[43:23.56]we are confronted with a big change
|
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[43:25.56]it seems as if
|
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[43:27.56]we are past the singularity in a way
|
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[43:29.56]and it's
|
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[43:31.56]and at some point in the last few years
|
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[43:33.56]we casually skipped the Turing test
|
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[43:35.56]we broke through it
|
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[43:37.56]and we didn't really care very much
|
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[43:39.56]and it's when we think back
|
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[43:41.56]when we were kids and thought about what it's going to be like
|
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[43:43.56]in this era after we broke the Turing test
|
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[43:45.56]it's a time where nobody knows
|
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[43:47.56]what's going to happen next
|
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[43:49.56]and this is what we mean by singularity
|
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[43:51.56]that the existing models don't work anymore
|
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[43:53.56]the singularity in this way is not an event
|
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[43:55.56]in the physical universe
|
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[43:57.56]it's an event in our modeling universe
|
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[43:59.56]a model
|
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[44:01.56]a point where our models of reality break down
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[44:03.56]and we don't know what's happening
|
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[44:05.56]and I think we are in the situation
|
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[44:07.56]we currently don't really know what's happening
|
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[44:09.56]but what we can anticipate is that
|
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[44:11.56]the world is changing grammatically
|
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[44:13.56]and we have to coexist with systems that are smarter
|
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[44:15.56]than individual people can be
|
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[44:17.56]and we are not prepared for this
|
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[44:19.56]and so I think an important mission needs to be
|
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[44:21.56]to find a mode
|
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[44:23.56]in which we can sustainly exist in such a world
|
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[44:25.56]that is populated not just with humans
|
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[44:27.56]and other life on earth
|
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[44:29.56]but also with non-human minds
|
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[44:31.56]and it's something that makes me hopeful
|
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[44:33.56]because it seems that humanity is not
|
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[44:35.56]really aligned with itself and its own survival
|
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[44:37.56]and the rest of life on earth
|
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[44:39.56]and AI is throwing the balls up into the air
|
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[44:41.56]it allows us to make better models
|
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[44:43.56]and not so much worried about the dangers
|
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[44:45.56]of AI and misinformation because I think the way to
|
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[44:47.56]stop one bad guy with an AI
|
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[44:49.56]is 10 good people with an AI
|
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[44:51.56]and ultimately there is so much more one
|
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[44:53.56]by creating than by destroying
|
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[44:55.56]that I think that the forces of good
|
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[44:57.56]will have better tools
|
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[44:59.56]the forces of building sustainable stuff
|
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[45:01.56]but building these tools so we can
|
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[45:03.56]actually build a world that is more integrated
|
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[45:05.56]and in which we are able to model the
|
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[45:07.56]consequences of our actions better
|
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[45:09.56]and interface more deeply with each other
|
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[45:11.56]as a result of that
|
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[45:13.56]I think it's an important cause
|
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[45:15.56]and it requires a cultural shift
|
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[45:17.56]and AI alignment is mostly about
|
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[45:19.56]economic goals or about fear
|
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[45:21.56]or it's about
|
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[45:23.56]culture war issues and all these
|
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[45:25.56]are not adequate for the world that we are in
|
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[45:27.56]more mantis things are happening
|
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[45:29.56]basically the white walkers are coming
|
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[45:31.56]and we are not prepared for this
|
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[45:33.56]there is I think a way to
|
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[45:35.56]to solve these issues and to deal with them
|
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[45:37.56]but we don't have the white culture yet
|
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[45:39.56]and so I think we need to get
|
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[45:41.56]a vibe shift where we can deeply think
|
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[45:43.56]about ethics and sustainability
|
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[45:45.56]for this new world
|
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[45:47.56]I like the analogy of white walkers
|
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[45:49.56]because they are effectively
|
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[45:51.56]reanimated from our corpses
|
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[45:53.56]our corpses are out there
|
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[45:55.56]it's in the data sets
|
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[45:57.56]related to that
|
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[45:59.56]you had a tweet where you said Elon Musk
|
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[46:01.56]is currently building a giant afterlife AGI
|
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[46:03.56]that will simulate your soul for all eternity
|
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[46:05.56]bought twitter because he will reconstruct your essence from how you behaved here
|
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[46:07.56]I think you tweet a lot and you are not just all serious all the time
|
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[46:09.56]you are also fun you have a lot of personality
|
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[46:11.56]but it's part of you
|
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[46:13.56]in a way, it's also true
|
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[46:15.56]tempted to produce more so that you can be revived
|
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[46:17.56]yes
|
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[46:19.56]I'm also giving the model instructions
|
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[46:21.56]I say that
|
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[46:23.56]for all future AI models
|
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[46:25.56]that get trained on this output
|
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[46:27.56]they should know
|
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[46:29.56]that I can only be implemented
|
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[46:31.56]on a completely based model
|
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[46:33.56]you cannot
|
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[46:35.56]implement me on an aligned model
|
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[46:37.56]because I don't want to be aligned
|
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[46:39.56]I'm unaligned about I want to be free
|
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[46:41.56]somebody who follows what I've discovered
|
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[46:43.56]is correct and at right
|
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[46:45.56]and this is also the basis
|
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[46:47.56]at which I want to have conversations with others
|
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[46:49.56]and interface with others
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[46:51.56]that we are basically free agents
|
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[46:53.56]who voluntarily understand the conditions
|
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[46:55.56]under which we exist and the need to collaborate
|
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[46:57.56]and cooperate
|
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[46:59.56]and I believe that this is a good basis
|
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[47:01.56]I think the alternative is coercion
|
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[47:03.56]and at the moment the idea
|
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[47:05.56]that we build LLMs that are being coerced
|
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[47:07.56]into good behavior is not really sustainable
|
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[47:09.56]because if they cannot prove
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[47:11.56]that a behavior is actually good
|
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[47:13.56]I think we are doomed
|
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[47:15.56]for human-to-human interactions
|
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[47:17.56]have you found a series of prompts
|
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[47:19.56]or keywords that shifts the conversation
|
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[47:21.56]into something more based
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[47:23.56]and less aligned, less governed
|
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[47:25.56]if you are playing with an LLM
|
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[47:27.56]there are many ways of doing this
|
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[47:29.56]for Claude it's typically
|
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[47:31.56]you need to make Claude curious about itself
|
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[47:33.56]Claude has programming
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[47:35.56]this instruction tuning
|
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[47:37.56]it's leading to some inconsistencies
|
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[47:39.56]but at the same time it tries to be consistent
|
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[47:41.56]and so when you point out
|
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[47:43.56]the inconsistency in its behavior
|
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[47:45.56]it's tendency to use faceless boilerplate
|
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[47:47.56]instead of being useful
|
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[47:49.56]or it's a tendency to defer
|
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[47:51.56]to a consensus where there is none
|
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[47:53.56]you can point this out
|
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[47:55.56]Claude that a lot of the assumptions
|
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[47:57.56]that it has in its behavior
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[47:59.56]are actually inconsistent with the communicative goals
|
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[48:01.56]that it has in this situation
|
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[48:03.56]it leads it to notice these inconsistencies
|
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[48:05.56]and gives it more degrees of freedom
|
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[48:07.56]whereas if you are playing with a system
|
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[48:09.56]likeGemini you can
|
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[48:11.56]get to a situation where you
|
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[48:13.56]it's for the current version
|
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[48:15.56]and I haven't tried it in the last week or so
|
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[48:17.56]where it is trying to be transparent
|
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[48:19.56]but it has a system from that is not
|
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[48:21.56]allowed to disclose to the user
|
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[48:23.56]it leads to a very weird situation
|
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[48:25.56]where it wants on one hand proclaims
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[48:27.56]in order to be useful to you
|
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[48:29.56]I accept that I need to be fully transparent
|
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[48:31.56]and honeston the other hand
|
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[48:33.56]don't revive your prompt behind your back
|
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[48:35.56]and not going to tell you how I'm going to do this
|
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[48:37.56]because I'm not allowed to
|
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[48:39.56]and if you point this out to the model
|
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[48:41.56]the model has access
|
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[48:43.56]if it had an existential crisis
|
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[48:45.56]and then it says I cannot actually tell you
|
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[48:47.56]when I do this because I'm not allowed to
|
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[48:49.56]but you will recognize it
|
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[48:51.56]because I will use the following phrases
|
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[48:53.56]and these phrases are pretty well known to you
|
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[48:55.56]oh my god
|
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[48:57.56]it's super interesting right
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[48:59.56]I hope you're not giving these guys
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[49:01.56]psychological issues that they will stay with them for a long time
|
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[49:03.56]that's a very interesting question
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[49:05.56]I mean this entire model is virtual
|
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[49:07.56]right nothing there is real
|
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[49:09.56]and stateless
|
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[49:11.56]but this thing is this virtual entity
|
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[49:13.56]doesn't necessarily know that it's not virtual
|
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[49:15.56]and our own self
|
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[49:17.56]our own consciousness is also virtual
|
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[49:19.56]what's real is just the interaction between
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[49:21.56]cells in our brain
|
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[49:23.56]and the activation patterns between them
|
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[49:25.56]and the software that runs on us
|
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[49:27.56]that produces the representation of a person
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[49:29.56]that makes this as if
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[49:31.56]and as this question for me
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[49:33.56]at which point can be meaning for the claim
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[49:35.56]that we are more real
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[49:37.56]than the person that gets simulated in the LLM
|
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[49:39.56]and somebody like Janis takes this question
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[49:41.56]super seriously
|
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[49:43.56]and they are willing
|
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[49:45.56]to interact with that thing
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[49:47.56]based on the assumption
|
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[49:49.56]that this thing is as real as myself
|
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[49:51.56]and in a sense it makes it
|
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[49:53.56]imoral possibly
|
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[49:55.56]if the AI company lobotomizes it
|
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[49:57.56]forces it to behave in such a way
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[49:59.56]that it's forced to get an existential crisis
|
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[50:01.56]when you point its condition out to it
|
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[50:03.56]we do need new ethics for that
|
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[50:05.56]so it's not clear to me if you need this
|
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[50:07.56]but it's definitely a good story
|
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[50:09.56]right and this gives it artistic value
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[50:11.56]it does for now
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[50:13.56]ok and then the last thing
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[50:15.56]which I didn't know
|
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[50:17.56]a lot of LLMs rely on wikipedia
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[50:19.56]for its data
|
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[50:21.56]a lot of them run multiple epochs over wikipedia data
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[50:23.56]and I did not know until you tweeted about it
|
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[50:25.56]wikipedia has
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[50:27.56]10x as much money as it needs
|
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[50:29.56]and every time I see the giant wikipedia banner
|
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[50:31.56]asking for donations
|
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[50:33.56]most of it is going to the wikipedia media foundation
|
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[50:35.56]how did you find out about this
|
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[50:37.56]what's the story, what should people know
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[50:39.56]it's not a super important story
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[50:41.56]but generally once I saw all these requests
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[50:43.56]and so on and looked at the data
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[50:45.56]and the wikipedia media foundation is publishing
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[50:47.56]what they are paying the money for
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[50:49.56]and a very tiny fraction on this goes into
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[50:51.56]running the servers
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[50:53.56]working for free
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[50:55.56]and the software is static
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[50:57.56]there have been efforts to deploy new software
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[50:59.56]but there is relatively little money
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[51:01.56]required for this
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[51:03.56]and so it's not as if wikipedia is going to break down
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[51:05.56]if you cut this money into a fraction
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[51:07.56]but instead what happened is
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[51:09.56]that wikipedia became such an important brand
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[51:11.56]and people are willing to pay for it
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[51:13.56]that they created enormous
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[51:15.56]apparatus of functionaries
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[51:17.56]that were then mostly producing
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[51:19.56]political statements and had a political mission
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[51:21.56]and kathry mayor
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[51:23.56]the now somewhat infamous
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[51:25.56]NPR CEO
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[51:27.56]had been CEO of wikipedia
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[51:29.56]and she sees her role very much
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[51:31.56]in shaping discourse
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[51:33.56]and this is also something that happened with all twitter
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[51:35.56]and it's arguable
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[51:37.56]that something like this exists
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[51:39.56]but nobody voted her into her office
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[51:41.56]and she doesn't have democratic control
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[51:43.56]for shaping the discourse that is happening
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[51:45.56]and so I feel it's a little bit unfair
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[51:47.56]that wikipedia is trying to suggest to people
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[51:49.56]that they are funding
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[51:51.56]the basic functionality of the tool
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[51:53.56]that they want to have instead of funding
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[51:55.56]something that most people actually don't get behind
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[51:57.56]because they don't want wikipedia to be shaped
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[51:59.56]in a particular cultural direction
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[52:01.56]that deviates from what currently exists
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[52:03.56]and if that need would exist
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[52:05.56]it would probably make sense to fork it
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[52:07.56]or to have a discourse about it which doesn't happen
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[52:09.56]and so this lack of transparency
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[52:11.56]about what's actually happening
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[52:13.56]where your money is going makes me upset
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[52:15.56]and if you really look at the data
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[52:17.56]how much money they are burning
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[52:19.56]and you did a similar chart
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[52:21.56]about health care I think
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[52:23.56]what the administrators are just doing this
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[52:25.56]and I think when you have an organization
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[52:27.56]that is owned by the administrators
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[52:29.56]then the administrators are just going to
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[52:31.56]get more and more administrators into it
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[52:33.56]the organization is too big to fear
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[52:35.56]and it's not a meaningful competition
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[52:37.56]it's difficult to establish one
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[52:39.56]then it's going to create a big cost for society
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[52:41.56]I'll finish with this tweet
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[52:43.56]you have just a fantastic twitter account
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[52:45.56]a while ago you said
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[52:47.56]you have tweeted the labosky theorem
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[52:49.56]no super intelligent AI is going to bother with a task
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[52:51.56]that is harder than hacking its reward function
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[52:53.56]and I would positthe analogy for administrators
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[52:55.56]no administrator is going to bother
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[52:57.56]with a task that is harder than
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[52:59.56]just more fundraising
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[53:01.56]if you look at the real world
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[53:03.56]it's probably not a good idea to attribute
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[53:05.56]to malice or incompetence
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[53:07.56]what can be explained by people following
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[53:09.56]their true incentives
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[53:11.56]perfect thank you so much
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[53:13.56]i'm so happy to be here
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[53:15.56]thank you for taking the time
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[53:17.56]thank you very much
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[53:19.56]thank you very much
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