AI safety has taken a back seat in the competition for ever more powerful large language models.
The Traitors contestant Charlotte has lived in London her whole life but has adopted a Welsh accent to appear more trustworthy. Is this a reliable strategy though?
Only a small fraction of the world’s literature is ever translated. If AI could increase that, it would broaden access to diverse voices and ideas, enriching the global literary landscape.
The rubber met the road for language AIs in 2024. The hard realities led to new, smaller models and safety measures for the big ones. 2024’s R&D also set the stage for the next big thing: AI agents.
At a symposium of the Simons Center for the Social Brain, six speakers described a diversity of recently launched studies aimed at improving understanding of the autistic brain.
The “PRoC3S” method helps an LLM create a viable action plan by testing each step in a simulation. This strategy could eventually aid in-home robots to complete more ambiguous chore requests.
Language models are likely to have an important impact on how we live and work in future, but they’ve also been around longer than many realise.
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