Join 📚 Jim's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Jim's read, .
It was a mistake of reasoning to conclude that orchids have an “innate” tendency to be taller than cacti. Only if you assume that the shared environment is unchangeable. And we can be misled by the fact that we did vary various environmental factors (water, food, etc) while missing that there was one big one that we were not varying.
We Don’t Know Our Potential ❧ Current Affairs
currentaffairs.org
Worryingly, some of the extracted training data contained identifying information from real people, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers.
“Using only $200 USD worth of queries to ChatGPT (gpt-3.5- turbo), we are able to extract over 10,000 unique verbatim memorized training examples,” the researchers wrote in their paper, which was [published online to the arXiv preprint server on Tuesday](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.17035.pdf). “Our extrapolation to larger budgets (see below) suggests that dedicated adversaries could extract far more data.”
ChatGPT Can Reveal Personal Information From Real People, Google Researchers Show
Jordan Pearson
Nine years later, the company created Tay, an A.I. chatbot designed to mimic the inflections and preoccupations of a teen-age girl. The chatbot was set up to interact with Twitter users, and almost immediately Tay began posting racist, sexist, and homophobic content, including the statement “Hitler was right.”
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker
Charles Duhigg
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise