The Gradient

After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment

2 months ago

Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that...

AGI Is Not Multimodal

11 months ago

"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight...

Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research

over 1 year ago

What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning?The past decade...

What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

over 1 year ago

LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly...

We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing

over 1 year ago

IntroductionImagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of...

Financial Market Applications of LLMs

about 2 years ago

The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies...

A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI

about 2 years ago

AI models reflect, and often exaggerate, existing gender biases from the real...

Mamba Explained

about 2 years ago

Car-GPT: Could LLMs finally make self-driving cars happen?

about 2 years ago

In 1928, London was in the middle of a terrible health crisis...

Do text embeddings perfectly encode text?

about 2 years ago

The rise of the vector databaseAs a result of the rapid advancement...

In-Context Learning, In Context

about 3 years ago

BackgroundMuch recent work on large language models (LLMs) has explored the phenomenon...

Software²: A new generation of AIs that become increasingly general by producing their own training data

about 3 years ago

We are at the cusp of transitioning from “learning from data” to...