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Interconnects

Audio essays about the latest developments in AI and interviews with leading scientists in the field. Breaking the hype, understanding what"s under the hood, and telling stories. www.interconnects.ai

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8:18

Text-to-video AI is already abundant

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2024/06/18

Signs point to a general-use Sora-like model coming very soon, maybe even with open-weights.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/text-to-video-ai-is-already-abundant0:00 Text-to-video AI is already abundant5:08 What's next for the text-to-video market?6:49 Are text-to-video models good for the world?Fig 1:

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12:35

AI for the rest of us

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2024/06/12

Apple Intelligence makes a lot of sense when you get out of the AI bubble.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/apple-intelligence00:00 AI for the rest of us02:46 Apple's technical approach03:32 Core models: What did Apple build?05:35 Alignment strategies: Some new things!10:00 Orchestrating adapters and on-device magic11:58 Light for other narratives around AIFig 1:

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7:49

A realistic path to robotic foundation models

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2024/06/05

A realistic path to robotic foundation modelsNot "agents" and not "AGI." Some thoughts and excitement after revisiting the industry thanks to Physical Intelligence founders Sergey Levine and Chelsea Finn.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/robotic-foundation-models0:00 A realistic path to robotic foundation models2:51 Key factors for the future of robotics6:19

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8:29

We aren't running out of training data, we are...

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2024/05/29

Data licensing deals, scaling, human inputs, and repeating trends in open vs. closed.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-data-wall0:00 We aren't running out of training data, we are running out of open training data2:51 Synthetic data: 1 trillion new tokens per day4:18 Data licensing deals: High costs per token6:33 Better tokens: Search and new frontiers

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9:03

Name, image, and AI's likeness

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2024/05/22

Celebrity's power will only grow in the era of infinite content.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/name-image-and-ai-likeness0:00 Name, image, and AI's likeness1:11 OpenAI's second terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week4:36 The expansion of name and likeness7:46 Culture and AI development

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12:28

OpenAI chases Her

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2024/05/16

ChatGPT leaves the textbox, and Google is building the same, and more, as practical tools.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/openai-and-her00:00 OpenAI chases Her02:10 Talking to ChatGPT03:53 GPT-4o: Toward omnimodal models08:25 Google's mirror with Gemini10:11 OpenAI's AI Safety: Have your cake and eat it tooFig 1:

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14:05

OpenAI's Model (behavior) Spec, RLHF transparency,...

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2024/05/13

Now we will have some grounding for when weird ChatGPT behaviors are intended or side-effects -- shrinking the Overton window of RLHF bugs.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/openai-rlhf-model-spec00:00 OpenAI's Model (behavior) Spec, RLHF transparency, and personalization questions02:56 Reviewing the Model Spec08:26 Where RLHF can fail OpenAI12:23 From Model Spec's to

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13:08

RLHF: A thin line between useful and lobotomized

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2024/05/01

Many, many signs of life for preference fine-tuning beyond spoofing chat evaluation tools.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/how-rlhf-works-200:00 How RLHF works, part 2: A thin line between useful and lobotomized04:27 The chattiness paradox08:09 The mechanism for making models chattier10:42 Next steps for RLHF researchFig 1:

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9:46

Phi 3 and Arctic: Outlier LMs are hints

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2024/04/30

Models that seem totally out of scope from recent open LLMs give us a sneak peek of where the industry will be in 6 to 18 months.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/phi-3-and-arctic-llms0:00 Phi 3 and Arctic: Outlier LMs are hints1:01 Arctic & open mixture of expert trends6:10 Phi 3, synthetic data, and small modelsFig 1:

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10:38

AGI is what you want it to be

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2024/04/24

Certain definitions of AGI are backing people into a pseudo-religious corner.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/agi-is-what-you-want-it-to-be00:00 AGI is what you want it to be04:01 RL still rules the AGI discourse05:43 Modern AGI tests07:37 Agency and shifting goalpostsFig 1:

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15:05

Llama 3: Scaling open LLMs to AGI

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2024/04/21

Meta shows that scaling won't be a limit for open LLM players in the near future.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/llama-3-and-scaling-open-llms00:00 Llama 3; scaling open LLMs to AGI01:44 Pretraining, data, and basic evals06:06 Alignment and human evaluations10:08 Chatting with Meta AI and Llama 3 70B Instruct11:55 Same Llama license (mostly)12:52 The healthy open

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7:32

Stop "reinventing" everything to "solve" alignment

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2024/04/17

Integrating some non computing science into reinforcement learning from human feedback can give us the models we want.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/reinventing-llm-alignment0:00 Stop "reinventing" everything to "solve" AI alignment2:19 Social Choice for AI Alignment: Dealing with Diverse Human Feedback7:03 OLMo 1.7 7B: A truly open model with actually good

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6:45

The end of the "best open LLM"

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2024/04/15

Modeling the compute versus performance tradeoff of many open LLMs.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/compute-efficient-open-llms0:00 The end of the "best open LLM"3:05 Compute efficient open LLMsFig 1: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/scaling/img_004.jpegFig 2:

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8:57

Why we disagree on what open-source AI should be

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2024/04/03

Last minute title change from: The tech industry can't agree on what open-source AI means. That's the process.How to read what multiple people mean by the word openness and see through the PR speak.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/flavors-of-open-source-ai0:00 The tech industry can't agree on what open-source AI means. That's the process.2:45 1. Effective

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16:33

DBRX: The new best open LLM and Databricks' ML strategy

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2024/03/29

Databricks' new model is surpassing the performance of Mixtral and Llama 2 while still being in a size category that's reasonably accessible.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolshttps://www.interconnects.ai/p/databricks-dbrx-open-llm00:00 DBRX: The new best open model and Databricks' ML strategy03:36 The DBRX narrative07:33 Databricks' open LLM (and AI) strategy09:42 Playing with DBRX Instruct14:54 Digging for

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12:40

Evaluations: Trust, performance, and price (bonus,...

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2024/03/21

Evaluation is not only getting harder with modern LLMs, it's getting harder because it means something different.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs. Music generated by Meta's MusicGen.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/evaluations-trust-performance-and-price00:00 Evaluations: Trust, performance, and price (bonus, announcing RewardBench)03:14 The rising price of evaluation05:40 Announcing RewardBench:

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10:56

Model commoditization and product moats

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2024/03/13

Where moats are tested now that so many people have trained GPT4 class models. Claude 3, Gemini 1.5, Inflection 2.5, and Mistral Large are here to party.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs. Music generated by Meta's MusicGen.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/gpt4-commoditization-and-moats00:00 Building LLM moats despite the commoditization of GPT404:38 The Open's opportunities08:02 It's amazing people

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23:06

The koan of an open-source LLM

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2024/03/06

A proposal for a new definition of an "open source" LLM and why no definition will ever just work.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs. Music generated by Meta's MusicGen.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/an-open-source-llm00:00 The koan of an open-source LLM03:22 A new naming scheme for open LLMs07:09 Pivot points and politics08:16 Claude 3, arms race, commoditization, and national security10:01 Doomers

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86:28

Interviewing Louis Castricato of Synth Labs and...

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2024/03/04

Louis recently has been founding a new startup focused on synthetic data for alignment, Synth Labs, and is a researcher at Eleuether AI. This interview should speak for itself, and it’ll need re-listens, even for myself. The list of topics we cover touches on pretty much every major and minor issue facing model fine-tuning. Please reach out or comment if there’s a paper we mention that I didn’t link before. Happy to dig it up for you. This post is very technical. If you’re having a hard

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86:28

Interviewing Louis Castricato of Synth Labs and...

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2024/03/04

This interview is available on podcast players and YouTube.I’m excited to bring you another interview! This one is a deep dive right in my wheelhouse — all things RLHF. Louis Castricato is probably the hidden star of RLHF in the open. I’m not sure anyone who can speak freely knows as much as him. As I’ve said again and again on Interconnects:Giving a voice to researchers is the best way to cut through the noise and understand what is happening with core developments of LLM technologies.Louis

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