CEO of Evolution AI. Organiser of the London Machine Learning Meetup. @martingoodson@sigmoid.social https://xitter.cf/t.co/C1n8gjWpqf

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Joined October 2011
The London Machine Learning Meetup is the largest machine learning community in Europe. Previous speakers include Juergen Schmidhuber, David Silver, Yoshua Bengio and Andrej Karpathy. Join our next meetup: meetup.com/London-Machine-Le… Or watch videos: youtube.com/c/LondonMachineL…
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Slow lift off. Feels like a phase transition in human history. Should be documented properly. @royalsociety @RoyalStatSoc @wtgowers @martingoodson
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I’d really love for this to be made into something more comprehensive and interactive. We are on the cusp of something and we need tools to keep track of it all.
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I've recently been trying to read more books and spend less time on the internet. To help me do that, I built a book recommendation site. (Naturally, I've been spending so much time on building the book recommendation site that I haven't had much time for reading. Oh well.)
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Anyway, I'd like to ask for help to improve the site. It's at books-like.com/. The idea is that you first select a book that you've read and liked, and the site will suggest three more books that you'll like (along with reasons why).
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Please take a look and let me know if it's helpful (or not). I bought about 6 recommended books while developing the site, so it must be doing something right. Now I just need to find the time to read them!
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Did the White House use ChatGPT Vibe Code a retarded formula for our tariffs and then were too dumb to cover it up? Yes. Here's the wildest trade story you missed today 🧵👇
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Erm, can't you just look at the rate of innovation?
All you need to know to understand which company will win a technology competition is look at the first and second derivatives of the rate of innovation
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Our CEO, Dr @martingoodson, will participate in @ArmstrongWolfe & @LSEGplc's COO Debating Society event next week. The motion of the debate is 'AI presents a greater opportunity than threat to Financial Services'. If you have any insights, please leave them below.
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If OpenAI has no moat, why is google struggling to compete with them?
No moat memo continues to age well. Open source will inevitably take over AI. There is no AI without open source anyway. You have no OpenAI without Linux, containers, Pytorch, Transformers, etc. Only thing that can kill it is regulatory assassination. semianalysis.com/p/google-we…
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Task contamination is worse than we imagined? Models perform better on datasets that were released before the models + Models can generate examples from tasks (NYT vibes) Changmao Li @jmflanig arxiv.org/abs/2312.16337
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No moat memo continues to age well. Open source will inevitably take over AI. There is no AI without open source anyway. You have no OpenAI without Linux, containers, Pytorch, Transformers, etc. Only thing that can kill it is regulatory assassination. semianalysis.com/p/google-we…
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Sharing my recent slides on how to train and deploy open-source LLMs Goes over * SFT, DPO with tools like @huggingface TRL/PEFT * renting GPUs on @runpod and others * setting up serverless vs dedicated APIs with TGI/vLLM/@togethercompute etc. docs.google.com/presentation…
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Ok, by popular demand: a starter set of papers you can read on the topic. "Comparing Humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V On Abstraction and Reasoning Tasks": arxiv.org/abs/2311.09247 "Embers of Autoregression: Understanding Large Language Models Through the Problem They are Trained to Solve": arxiv.org/abs/2309.13638 "Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality": arxiv.org/abs/2305.18654 "The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn 'B is A'": arxiv.org/abs/2309.12288 "On the measure of intelligence": arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547 not about LLMs, but provides context and grounding on what it means to be intelligent and the nature of generalization. It also introduces an intelligence benchmark (ARC) that remains completely out of reach for LLMs. Ironically the best-performing LLM-based systems on ARC are those that have been trained on tons of generated tasks, hoping to hit some overlap between test set tasks and your generated tasks -- LLMs have zero ability to tackle an actually new task. In general there's a new paper documenting the lack of broad generalization capabilities of LLMs every few days.
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📸 Look at this post on Facebook by Tomas Mikolov facebook.com/share/p/X2y8F6D…
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The technique in this paper is more suited to algorithm discovery rather than scientific discovery. It relies on having a method for verifying a proposed solution. The LLM doesn't know the answer, but it can generate good proposals. 1/
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I've discovered a Brexit opportunity. The firm founded by Jacob Rees-Mogg is winding down, after St James's Place severed ties - amid regulatory pressure to comply with new FCA consumer duty rules. Amazingly, the FCA couldn't have imposed these rules before Brexit.
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This is doing numbers at the moment but the data does not show that TikTok *drives* antisemitism. This is a clear case of selection bias: people who use TikTok are from a different demographic to those who don't. This is very disappointing. @antgoldbloom should know better.
A new survey suggests TikTok is a meaningful driver of a surge in antisemitism. #TikToxic Spending at least 30 minutes a day on TikTok increases the chances a respondent holds antisemitic or anti-Israel views by 17% (compared with 6% for Instagram and 2% for X).
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People often ask if ML or software skills are more the bottleneck to AI progress. It’s the wrong question—both are invaluable, and people with both sets of skills can have outsized impact. We find it easier, however, to teach people ML skills as needed than software engineering.
coming up with good ml research ideas is significantly easier than implementing them in a complex codebase — the returns to being an extremely good engineer are super high
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A virologist demolishes effective altruism.
If you’ve heard/read scary stuff about virology/microbiology/pathogen research and the inevitable apocalypse it will bring, please know most of that shit is made up and funded by the factions of existential doomers warring as described in this excellent thread.
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