AI can see the future. At least, they can see it a lot better than humans can. Studies using ‘crowd’ LLMs have shown the significantly greater forecasting ability than the typical human ‘crowd’ used in forecasting. Utilising human crowds have some serious limitations: ➡️ biases ➡️ scalability ➡️ cost and time Researchers created their own LLM ‘crowd' using models from companies like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta, to replicated a human crowd. With standardised prompting, their accuracy was indistinguishable from human predictions & in some testing even outperformed them. However... I’m a bit confused as to why these LLMs are performing better than humans. But perhaps it shouldn’t be that surprising. I mean, LLMs are the ultimate “crowd source” by definition. They’re the sum aggregate of millions of written artefacts, and the absolute average of thought in some sense. And aggregating across different language models only pushes that further. Food for thought, anyway. It’s really exciting to see such novel applications of LLMs coming out. The next time someone’s doing the “count jelly beans in the jar as a crowd exercise” - let’s maybe use LLMs? Super keen to see what other uses these AI-crowds have in a more practical sense.
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Could the famous phrase "Just Google It" be coming to and end? AI is changing the game once again. SearchGPT is a new search engine developed by OpenAI that combines the best of traditional search with the power of generative AI. It's designed to provide more informative and comprehensive search results. Key features of SearchGPT include: *Direct Answers: Instead of just a list of links, SearchGPT provides direct answers to your questions. *Source Citing: It cites the sources of the information, allowing you to verify the credibility of the answer. *Conversational Search: You can have a back-and-forth conversation with the search engine, asking follow-up questions and refining your query. This could significantly disrupt the search engine landscape, challenging the dominance of traditional search giants like Google. As AI continues to evolve we can only imagine what the future holds.
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While OpenAI is making headlines with its new o1 models. Google has taken the first step toward addressing one of GenAI's most significant challenges. One of the biggest challenges with Large Language Models (LLMs today is their tendency to confidently provide inaccurate information, known as "hallucination." Google has just launched DataGemma, a breakthrough solution to address this issue by grounding LLMs in real-world data.. Built on Google’s Data Commons, a massive repository of over 240 billion trustworthy data points from sources like the UN, WHO, and CDC, DataGemma models are designed to improve the factual accuracy of AI responses. Here’s how: 1. RIG (Retrieval-Interleaved Generation) enables AI models to query trusted data in real time. 2. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) allows models to access relevant context before generating outputs, ensuring deeper reasoning and fewer errors. Preliminary results show significant improvements in handling numerical facts. By anchoring responses in reliable statistics, these models offer more accurate and trustworthy insights across sectors like research, policymaking, and more. #AI #DataScience #MachineLearning #LLMs #Innovation #GoogleAI #DataDriven #TechNews #ArtificialIntelligence
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ROMANCING HOMO TECHNICUS Sam Altman's real skill and innovation is romancing the #AI System. (see "romancing the stone") He is very good at it and he managed to persuade Oprah of his Techno Optimist religious vision. #AI, #StrongAI, #AGI is the MacGuffin that has been used by various Computer Scientists to move the plot forward and fund their research for the last 70 years. The research funding request for 2025 is much higher than it was for 1955. Natural Human Curiousity is providing the fuel for this research mission, mostly driven by Science Fiction fantasies. We strongly believe in these Science Fictions that have replaced traditional religions since the 50's (see L. Ron Hubbard). Machines are not Human. But as we continue to develop computer systems that are more "human like" in their behaviours, we fuel this Sci-Fi Mythos with our brain energies, which provides a direction for human society and supports the continued development of advanced technologies. We are looking at ourselves through a mirror made of technology and technology stories, and we are amused and enthralled by what we see. The successor religion to Humanism is Technohumanism (or TESCREAL) and the objective is a new species of Homo Technicus. This phenomenon is more anthropological in nature than scientific. We are romancing the silicon.
Quote: "A common trick is to feign that today’s three-quarters-baked AI (full of hallucinations and bizarre and unpredictable errors) is tantamount to so-called Artificial General Intelligence (which would be AI that is at least as powerful and flexible as human intelligence) when nobody is particularly close. Not long ago, Microsoft posted a paper, not peer-reviewed, that grandiosely claimed “sparks of AGI” had been achieved. Sam Altman is prone to pronouncements like “by [next year] model capability will have taken such a leap forward that no one expected.…It’ll be remarkable how much different it is.” One master stroke was to say that the OpenAI board would get together to determine when Artificial General Intelligence “had been achieved,” subtly implying that (1) it would be achieved sometime soon and (2) if it had been reached, it would be OpenAI that achieved it. That’s weapons-grade PR, but it doesn’t for a minute make it true. (Around the same time, OpenAI’s Altman posted on Reddit, “AGI has been achieved internally,” when no such thing had actually happened.) Only very rarely does the media call out such nonsense. It took them years to start challenging Musk’s overclaiming on driverless cars, and few if any asked Altman why the important scientific question of when AGI was reached would be “decided” by a board of directors rather than the scientific community. The combination of finely tuned rhetoric and a mostly pliable media has downstream consequences; investors have put too much money in whatever is hyped, and, worse, government leaders are often taken in. Two other tropes often reinforce one another. One is the “Oh no, China will get to GPT-5 first” mantra that many have spread around Washington, subtly implying that GPT-5 will fundamentally change the world (in reality, it probably won’t). The other tactic is to pretend that we are close to an AI that is SO POWERFUL IT IS ABOUT TO KILL US ALL. Really, I assure you, it’s not." Source: https://lnkd.in/dz8w-c7i
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Many years ago, a Quora question about downloading the entire Internet for offline browsing made me chuckle. Fast forward, and AI companies might just be doing the unimaginable by feeding almost the entirety of the Internet to their Large Language Models (LLMs). I came across this Wall Street Journal article that highlights a looming challenge: the Internet might soon be too small for AI's hunger for data. The demand for high-quality text might outstrip supply in next two years! 😰 This could significantly slow AI development. It also means that AI companies would need to find new methods to train future models, something that OpenAI is already working on. https://lnkd.in/gJNGY4aE
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“The future is already here — it’s just unevenly distributed.” - William Gibson Perhaps an overused quote, but very apt to describe where we are with AI. There is way more going on behind the scenes at most of the AI companies working on frontier models right now than people know. The innovation we will see in society and the integration of artificial intelligence into it over the next 3 to 5 years will be unlike anything humanity has ever seen. This is the new space race. This is the next global competition for influence and relevance. We all need a little bit more understanding of what a small handful of people know. People who are building and working with these models know what’s coming, but we as a society need to educate ourselves to be better prepared. I would implore folks to read this series of essays in the links below called “Situational Awareness” written by Leopold Aschenbrenner who was part of the recently disbanded OpenAI Superalignment team. He obviously had a front row seat to how far we’ve come, how fast we got here and based on that, extrapolating where we are going. It’s dense but super interesting and very eye opening. I’ve said it before but if you are in information work (or any work, really) and you are not preparing for life with AI by using it, learning it and understanding how it will impact your daily life, you will be left behind. We all need to prepare. https://lnkd.in/gzkmsgsN or if you want the PDF: https://lnkd.in/gFyrZmDn
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