David Cope: Composer, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer generated music https://buff.ly/SDkXUKc

"Cope’s work on EMI and related systems was truly original, visionary, and enormously impactful. May he rest in peace and may his memory be a blessing." -- #MelanieMitchell

#AI #EMI #theMind

David Cope: Composer, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer generated music

Today I learned that the composer David Cope died on May 4, at the age of 83.

AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Great summary by @melaniemitchell of the debate about LLMs and whether they are reasoning or not and what their quality is in that respect.
https://aiguide.substack.com/p/the-llm-reasoning-debate-heats-up
#AI #reasoning #LLM #melaniemitchell
The LLM Reasoning Debate Heats Up

Three recent papers examine the robustness of reasoning and problem-solving in large language models

AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Podcast: Ep. 1: What is Intelligence | Santa Fe Institute

Podcast on "The Nature of Intelligence"

https://aiguide.substack.com/p/podcast-on-the-nature-of-intelligence

"Abha and I (and our producer Katherine Moncore) have put together the second season, on “The Nature of Intelligence”. I have to say that it’s been a challenge like none I’ve done before, but I’m excited about the results." -- #MelanieMitchell

#theMind #LLMs #genAI

Podcast on "The Nature of Intelligence"

I never thought I would be a podcast host, but…Abha Eli Phoboo, the director of communications at the Santa Fe Institute, recently relaunched SFI’s official podcast, Complexity, and proposed that each season, an SFI faculty member co-host the podcast with her for six episodes on a topic of their choice.

AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans

The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq9356

"Surprisingly, given the Turing Test’s broad cultural importance, there’s little agreement in the AI community on the criteria for passing, and much doubt about whether having conversational skills that can fool a human reveals anything about a system’s underlying intelligence or 'thinking status.'" -- #MelanieMitchell

#theMind #LLMs #genAI #AI

On the “ARC-AGI” $1 Million Reasoning Challenge

https://aiguide.substack.com/p/on-the-arc-agi-1-million-reasoning

"ARC is a set of analogy puzzles in which the solver must infer the abstract rule underlying a small set of grid transformations, and apply that rule to a new grid." -- #MelanieMitchell #subStack

#LLMs #AI #AGI

On the “ARC-AGI” $1 Million Reasoning Challenge

In this post I’m going to go into the weeds, describing how some people are trying to win a big $$$ prize for solving a still-wide-open AI challenge, the “Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus,” and what it all means.

AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Evaluating Large Language Models Using “Counterfactual Tasks”

https://aiguide.substack.com/p/evaluating-large-language-models?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1273940&post_id=144603950&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=4pxfn&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

"In [the counterfactual task] paradigm, models are evaluated on pairs of tasks that require the same types of abstraction and reasoning, but for each pair, the content of the first task is likely to be similar to training data, whereas the content of the second task (a “counterfactual task”) is designed to be unlikely to be similar to training data." -- #MelanieMitchell

#genAI #LLMs

Evaluating Large Language Models Using “Counterfactual Tasks”

“[O]ne thing is clear: LLMs are not human.

AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans

The Future of Artificial Intelligence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAiXT1mGTXc

"In this lecture, AI expert Melanie Mitchell will demystify how current-day AI works, how “intelligent” it really is, and what our expectations—and concerns—about its near-term and long-term prospects should be."

#gen_ai #LLMs #MelanieMitchell

The Future of Artificial Intelligence

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"They were saying this is just a publicity stunt, and there were, of course, the popular press doomsday headlines about, you know, OpenAI creates an AI that's so powerful." - MELANIE MITCHELL, The ELIZA Effect, 99% Invisible #MelanieMitchell

Having read (and mostly enjoyed) books by Max Tegmark, Stuart Russell, Ray Kurzweil, Brian Christian, Ajay Agrawal and Nick Bostrom in recent months, its been Melanie Mitchell (AI: a guide for thinking humans), D'Iganzio & Klein (Data Feminism) and Erica Thompson (Escape from Model Land) that I think have provided some of the most balanced and insightful perspectives on AI and data science.

#MaxTegmark
#StuartRussell
#RayKurzweil
#BrianChristian
#AjayAgrawal
#NickBostrom
#MelanieMitchell
#DIganzio
#Klein
#EricaThompson