Causal Deference

Navigating the most important century. AI, Tech, Media, maybe Spirituality if things get wild.

The hottest Substack posts of Causal Deference

And their main takeaways

What do we want from AI?

8 implied HN points • 30 Oct 23
🕹 Technology AI Information Overload Meditation Tools
  1. The future with AI will massively change, and it's crucial to think about how we want to shape it.
  2. To combat information overload, there might be a need for tools and a cultural shift towards healthy information consumption.
  3. Exploring meditation and cognitive science concepts like Predictive Processing can help us understand ourselves and AI better.

GPTs: What are they good for?

2 implied HN points • 17 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Chatbots Search Machine Learning Innovation
  1. GPTs can be used to create custom chatbots, but the killer app is still elusive.
  2. OpenAI's GPTs feature allows for powerful functionality by combining saved prompts with backend tools like Bing search.
  3. There is potential in developing GPT-based systems with better posting assistance, context awareness, and batch processing for more compelling applications.

OpenAI comes clean about GPT 3.5

7 HN points • 02 Dec 22
  1. OpenAI has introduced a new model called InstructGPT trained on instruction prompts.
  2. The model `text-davinci-003` was trained using RLHF via PPO method.
  3. Task-oriented training, like instruction tuning, is valuable but can be complex to implement.

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2 implied HN points • 22 Nov 22
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