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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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12:28

OpenAI chases Her

Interconnects ·

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...

Interconnects ·

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...

Interconnects ·

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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10:46

How to cultivate a high-signal AI feed

Interconnects ·

2024/02/28

Basic tips on how to assess inbound ML content and cultivate your news feed.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/making-a-ml-feed00:00 How I assess all these AI releases01:22 1. Model access and demos are king of credibility02:31 2. Focus your feed on depth or breadth03:09 3. Examples of using the model normally show its usable,

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17:17

Google ships it: Gemma open LLMs and Gemini backlash

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2024/02/22

Google rejoins the open model party and gets some backlash for a frequent problem for generative AI.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/gemma-google-ships-it00:00 Google ships it: Gemma open LLMs and Gemini backlash03:12 Getting to know Gemma07:11 Alignment details08:55 Aside: What is REINFORCE? Some history of RL11:08 Implementation

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14:58

10 Sora and Gemini 1.5 follow-ups: code-base in...

Interconnects ·

2024/02/20

10 Sora and Gemini 1.5 follow-ups: code-base in context, deepfakes, pixel-peeping, inference costs, and moreThis 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/sora-gemini-follow-up00:00 10 Sora and Gemini 1.5 follow-ups: code-base in context, deepfakes, pixel-peeping, inference costs, and more00:46 1. Deepfake detection of Sora01:59 2. Playing with

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9:07

Releases! OpenAI’s Sora for video, Gemini 1.5's...

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2024/02/16

Emergency blog! Three things you need to know from the ML world that arrived yesterday.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/sora-gemini-and-mistral-next0:00 OpenAI's Sora for video, Gemini 1.5, and a secret Mistral model0:53 Sora: OpenAI's text-to-video model4:59 Gemini 1.5: Google's effectively infinite context length8:01

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7:44

Why reward models are still key to understanding...

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2024/02/14

In an era dominated by direct preference optimization and LLMasajudge, why do we still need a model to output only a scalar reward?This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs. Music generated by Meta's MusicGen.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: In an era dominated by direct preference optimization and LLM-as-a-judge, why do we still need a model to output only a scalar reward?Podcast figures:Figure 1:

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