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– Drafted a blog post
– Used an LLM to meticulously improve the argument over 4 hours.
– Wow, feeling great, it’s so convincing!
– Fun idea let’s ask it to argue the opposite.
– LLM demolishes the entire argument and convinces me that the opposite is in fact true.
– lol
The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.
https://x.com/karpathy/status/2037921699824607591
I would expect that a lot of things that were old hat to experts, but completely inaccessible to most people, will go viral in the coming months. Sure, anyone could have done those things before, but it required a lot of deep knowledge. Now the AI can make it happen by asking.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2038494612583543254
The research team (including @hamsabastani who is on X) found that letting students just use AI resulted in them using it to accidentally shortcut learning But both that study and a separate RCT found that AIs prompted to act as a tutor improved learning
https://x.com/emollick/status/2038132279076122725
Want to talk to the past? Here is an LLM “”trained entirely from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 and 1899, drawn from a dataset made available by the British Library.”” Quite different from an LLM roleplaying a Victorian.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2038084424810537215
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