LLMs see patterns everywhere as they try to match human input to something they have trained on.
First installment: you think you are in control but your [social media, AII chatbot, ...] is controlling you.
The delightfully named Bullshit Benchmark (really the BS Detection Benchmark) by Peter Gostev is really worth looking at. Yet another benchmark you say? Another benchmark, yes, but one that addresses how LLM…
Science paper ( with unsurprising but specific results. The authors measured the fraction of Python functions in more than 30 million GitHub commits from 160k software developers they could detect were…
There is this concept of AI-driven cognitive atrophy going around. It may happen, there is ample evidence that our ability to perform some tasks degrades when we stop performing them. But the key here is to…
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