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The Art of Working in Public / Robin
Robin
In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial in front of her that she can turn to get More Crime or Less Crime, and at a normal company — a bank, for instance — her job consists of (1) turning it most of the way toward Less Crime, but (2) not all the way, and (3) acting very contrite when politicians and regulators yell at her about the residual crime. “We have a zero-tolerance policy for crime,” she will say, and almost mean.
Money Stuff: Bed Bath & Beyond Got Its Deal Done
Matt Levine
So people are going to be even more blindsided when someone develops an AI that uses GPT as its language comprehension *component*, but does this higher level stuff that we *actually* want sitting on top of it. Because in my opinion, it's pretty clear that GPT is producing an *amazing* level of comprehension of what a series of words means. The problem is, that's *all* it is really doing.
Bing AI Can't Be Trusted
ycombinator.com
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