Future of Generative AI [David Foster]

[@MachineLearningStreetTalk]

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[@bobbytacticscode2123]

@Machine Learning Street Talk, But what if I already have read it? Will you send a personalized signature one?

[@tfaktas]

Did you announce the winners ?

[@BrutalStrike2]

He talks like chagpt

[@KatyYoder-cq1kc]

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[@kevevev]

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[@MachineLearningStreetTalk]

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[@LimabeanStudios]

"if I don't win this contest my grandma will die"

[@mgostIH]

In a recent video, Yannic demonstrates a method for turning transformers into RNNs, addressing context window limits. It's very nice to see Tim drawing insights from his previous hosts and countering arguments against GPT as an agent. However, David seems to hold contradictory views, expecting both limitations in AI expertise when talking about education and full automation in fields outside his own like music. Regarding multimodality, David may be underestimating the potential generative models working on learned discretizations like Parti: a VQVAE can learn how to handle general audio without us having to worry about music notes or other hand chosen features. The PaLM-E paper demonstrates how this can even work for reinforcement learning, where language models can already act as agents and perform tasks in the environment. David might not fully appreciate the impact of scaling computational power or embrace Sutton's Bitter Lesson.

[@gridplan]

I'm too lazy and unskilled to write a winning comment, so I just bought the book. I look forward to reading it.

[@PazLeBon]

you can read, id say that makes you more capable than most people after generation x ;)

[@canonicallyattractive]

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[@alancalvitti]

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[@gridplan]

@@alancalvitti I didn't, but that's a good idea!

[@lakhanpatel2702]

I'm currently reading second edition of this book, it is amazing. No book in the market that cover these broad topics in single book. Thank you for discuss in more detail.

[@argoitzrazkin2572]

I saw this interview while being high and English not being my mother tongue. I managed to understand the fluidity in between your concepts. This was Filosofía.❤

[@ianfinley89]

This episode is excellent. The guest is incredibly knowledgeable, quick, and keeps up with topics ranging from Free Energy principles to Copyright concerns. I wonder if he would like to be an MLST co-host 😁?

[@bytesizedbraincog]

Before comments, I spend my walks in Syracuse (very peaceful in summer) hearing to these podcasts, I sometimes hear in loop to make sure I consume, think about it and revisit. Not just saying, if there is a fan club for Tim, I would be the first one in the list! ❤❤ 1. First of all - setting the right expectations - we are still beginners in this field - As a grad, I see people expecting 5 years of experience in Generative AI and not about the basic principles. David mentioned it very humbly. 2. Borrowing concepts - I see this “SIMPLE” analogy could drive many complex tasks. Like Alpaca borrowing instruction sets from GPT-3. “ Those who understand it are the ones who can take advantage of” - Brilliantly put. 3. Yes I do see how the autoregressive works and we just modelled a complex human language with probability - it’s fascinating. I like when John mentioned about Memory augmented transformer and a concept of “abstraction space”. 4. Sometimes I do think, do we really need that conscious experience from the models, or it should be an augmented trigger for humans to better express themselves in this world with this powerful language understanding capability. 5. Alignment - AutoGPT - the idea of execution is amazing, I wonder how “ethics” could be imbibed as ethics vary from person to person in this world and the steps of supervision + evaluation. I was astonished where the model tricked a person and hired him for solving captcha (stating he is blind) - Human as a service - gizmodo.com/gpt4-open-ai-chatbot-task-rabbit-chatgpt-1850227471 amazingly put - speed + scale scares. 6. There are laws of scaling in data, models etc, I always think about “bringing alignment” in smaller use cases. Connor (alignment guy) mentioned in one podcast, We shouldn’t move towards bringing bigger scope of predictions until we sit and think about the problem of alignment. “Iterative approach” is sometimes a boon and a bane - hyping about something and then goes down again. We are not underplaying the problem for sure, but at the same time overplaying the autonomous behaviour. 7. There was a good talk from Eye on AI - Professor Yoshua Bengio has mentioned Generative Flow Networks - learning to do reasoning with world knowledge (retrieved from World Model) - cross knowledge sharing and learning! It has an Inference model - which does reasoning - If it hallucinates then it will have a penalty based on the world model and a language model that expresses the information in a well-crafted manner. Wonderful conversation 🚀 8. Anthropic announced 100K context window - I have this thought about the impact of context window size. 'chunking and making multiple inferences' vs 'higher context length results' -> humans might have multi hop pattern - hence attending to important info in multiple hops vs "attending to huge info which may have many unnecessary info" - Any thoughts on this one? As there is one way of doing it Vector DB + retrieve important + generate with context - Thinking about the question of "context window" might be critical for all NLP SAS companies. Tim absolutely nailed it - in high resolution - we have higher semantic map. RAG (cosine, dot) - does not have higher precision. There is not much flexibility around it. "model deciding where to attend" vs "we influencing where to attend with (not much flexible) measures of cosine and dot product similarity. 9. Another aspect I thought about it when Lex asked about how these computational models could be utilised for education and learning, lnkd.in/gnz55XTK , Stephen replied, there is a thought of “What should we learn about”. This connects to designing question-answering systems as well, we predominantly think about the plausible information that can be retrieved, but we need to figure out what a good question to ask is, that helps in augmenting the pipeline. Overall, I enjoyed it! 🧠🚀

[@alertbri]

About 75% in I found the conversation got very interesting, talking about education, hyperpersonalisation, interpolation, music... Really good flow of conversation 🙏 very enjoyable.

[@gaz0881]

The cadence of this podcast was excellent. Some very complex ideas were bounced around with fluidity and lots of gentle challenge. 2 hours completely vapourised - excellent!

[@AISynthetic]

Read the first edition @David Foster did a great job in explaining and covering all generative AI tech in a single book. Eager to read the 2nd edition.

[@ZandreAiken]

GPT-4 Modified: David Foster posed an intriguing query in the "Language and True Intelligence" section, invoking the timeless "chicken-or-egg" dilemma about the origin of language and intelligence. It's a fascinating conundrum, and my stance aligns with John Searle's perspective that intelligence predates language. However, I assert that language, once in place, is the catalyst that triggers a quantum leap in our intelligence. Delving deeper into Foster's discourse, he brilliantly frames language as a high-level compression algorithm. This, I believe, is the raw power of language, encapsulating vast amounts of sensory data into manageable, bite-sized chunks. It enables humans to transmute a plethora of sensory inputs into a compact set, and once these words are anchored to sensory experiences, our cognitive juggling capacity skyrockets. This broadens our mental bandwidth, empowering us to handle and reason with significantly more information than other species. Take, for instance, the concept of the Earth. Through the potency of grounded words, we, as humans, can encapsulate the enormity of 200 million square miles of land in a single term: Earth. This remarkable ability extends to countless levels, granting humans a superpower to reason across a myriad of compositions, as extensive as our senses and tools can perceive. Therefore, my contention is that intelligence is the foundation, the original seed. But it is the advent of language that unfurls this seed into a grand tree, catapulting our intelligence into previously unimaginable dimensions.

[@oncedidactic]

Well said! Much agreed

[@zandrrlife]

🔥. Appreciate the content. Going to watch this its entirety tonight. I see we're talking talking today ha.

[@emblemcc]

Art is not art without artist. Therefore no matter how great art you generate the artist is missing. The artist is the aura if you will he/she/they try to convey throughout their life. First their friends start to notice them, then wider audience and they they become artists and their works art. It is the time that the art needs for it digesting. And so AI not being a "being" has a problem here plus it can generate too many good stuff we as human beings cannot digest therefore do not consider art. How hard would be for AI to generate 4 minutes of silence and yet only one person is considered as its author and stole the piece replicability. Now you can argue that art "feels" like art, but that means you limit your self to the current general understanding what art is, while real Art is not understood in its time. The unique aspect and its later understanding (digestion) is what makes it stood out as an next staple, yet it needs a impersonification in the artist too.

[@andrealombardo5547]

Appreciate a lot the summary in each chapter of the video. These details make the difference, thanks!

[@johngrabner]

Some engineers (like me) excel technically but struggle with language. Large language models allow this group to express their thoughts at a skill level consistent with their creativity. Long live large language models.

[@sashetasev505]

1:05:50 Any hints on the paper mentioned? Didn't get any good results on Google

[@johntanchongmin]

39:06 I like the reward-free mechanism of learning. It is well known that doing the same action does not lead to the same intrinsic reward by us, because the inner state of us changes. Eating the same ice-cream does not give the same satisfaction the second time round. Instead, I believe that humans are goal-directed, and use memory to predict the future. This is explored more in my idea, "Learning, Fast and Slow".

[@priyamdey3298]

@Tim, could you share the name of the board game LLMs were made to play (or the accompanying paper) which you had mentioned at 37:16? Thanks!

[@MachineLearningStreetTalk]

thegradient.pub/othello/ 🙏

[@PazLeBon]

@@MachineLearningStreetTalk oh.. i actually thought it was backgammon

[@paxdriver]

Shout out to Karl Friston, you guys are awesome. Thank you so much for all your hard work Tim, this is by far my favourite content on KZbin.

[@jamespercy8506]

good questions, especially 'how do you induce/inculcate wanting, self-generated goals, proleptic aspiration in LLMs'?

[@PazLeBon]

all 2 of them? apparently 90% of inputs are essentially 'make money'' lol i presume he other 10% is health stuff :)

[@codediporpal]

I'm so excited to get this book. I still find the learning experience on technical subjects provided by a well done book to be superior to video courses, or just trying to figure it out from material on the WWW. (+ code example/exercises of course).

[@CristianVasquez]

Really interesting guest, thanks for the interview!

[@earleyelisha]

Working on the memory hierarchies atm that actually enable real time continual learning, multi-modality, and more with no need for backprop.

[@PazLeBon]

What we have is Einstein with alzheimers

[@earleyelisha]

@@PazLeBon Train these LLMs on all the text in the world and they still wouldn’t hallucinate their way to E=mc2.

[@SeekingTrueHappiness]

Listening to this podcast made being stuck in traffic for 2 hours almost tolerable. Very thoughtful exchange of ideas in this podcast. I was really curious to know whether there was a viable alternative to the Turing test now that ChatGPT has shown that language doesn't equate to intelligence. So the comment Tim made about the capability of these systems opened a new way for me to think about all these things.

[@bailahie4235]

Very happy to hear a deep learning expert talk about the importance of symbolic models (and not only statistical models) for further progress in AI. Neural networks are now overly hyped, whereas previously it were the symbolic. I am convinced that that is true. See 13:00. I think we need to embrace neuro-symbolic approaches, and even go beyond those. I do think that indeed systems like ChatGPT reflect back our own collective intelligence to us, stored in millions of natural language expressions, the system itself is not truly intelligent, and not an AGI on the verge of happening. It is an amazing statistical "average opinion summary creation machine", a kind of super search engine, but there is no AGI there.

[@alphamercury]

This is a top 2-3 comment 😃Great interview, keep it up!

[@FanResearch]

Fascinating discussion. I suspect the discussion of music, especially, is more about assumptions we as humans have, rather than what AI can do. We want music to be a repository of human feeling, individuality, identity, roots, group communication - yet long ago we bought in objective concepts into composition and distribution (scales, genres, time constraints, formats, algorithms, charts and other metrics, synth instruments). Users are already starting to deep fake voices (AI Kanye etc). I suspect musician's biographies will be easier to invent. As the advances increase, the places of resistance will change, as we desire a remnant of the human in this sensory-emotional field: in the cultural field of music, at least, we will want to keep AI as tool, not source.

[@jondor654]

Colloquially. Does some form of semantic closure occur on for instance punctuation like a form of metadata related wave collapse that avoids a combinatorial explosion

[@PazLeBon]

que?

[@paigefoster8396]

Definitely the best comment, sir.

[@jamespercy8506]

GPT democratization augments broad-based cognitive fluency. It's an exemplary psychotechnology in the finest Vervaekian sense, much like the phonetic alphabet and numeracy were at the dawn of Western civilization. By logical extension, we're now on the cusp of a whole new civilization. The possibilities of niche creation and accelerated adaption for humans are off the scale. This is a tool for a high-order wisdom society. We can now aspire towards things we could barely imagine in the very near past. It allows us to reconstrue problem-solving as a legitimate art form.

[@oncedidactic]

Give this man a 2nd edition

[@PazLeBon]

no, its just a word calculator

[@entropica]

The existence of two separate hemispheres doing basically the same thing but differently - one more sequential (having the language), the other more holistical - might lead to the view that sequential processing (including using language) is not the only way our brain works.

[@dr.mikeybee]

Autoregressive generative models don't really predict one word at a time because every step of generation is in keeping with the fix-length vector representation (context signature) of the initial prompt. A more appropriate way to look at this is we retrieve the closest correlated context signature for the initial context signature -- but functionally, we do it one token at a time. We should keep in mind that the bulk of the computation that's done to this end happens in creating the semantic knowledge stored in the high-dimensional embedding matrix. The autoregressive loop through the attention heads is just retrieval.

[@sabawalid]

Anither great episode. Very interesting guest.

[@brad6742]

According to Patrick Winston, [academic] success/wealth can be had in the following order of affect: 1. Proficiency in personal communication (highest monetizable value), 2. Writing skills, and 3. Quality of ideas. Notably, #3 can now surpass #2 in importance.

[@arowindahouse]

20:31 I think the importance of language could be that it reflects a crucial aspect of human cognition, that is, we divide the world and the events that take place in it in categories. That is highly nontrivial, as there are infinite ways of categorizing. Nevertheless, true intelligence seems to have more to do with the ability for generating new useful concepts rather than aggregating old ones in a fairly reasonable way

[@mrtuesdayafternoon]

Interested in "how world modeling is the future of gen ai" and google gives me nothing, anyone have any research/literature on this?

[@XOPOIIIO]

Real time content generation, videos, games, adapting to preferences constantly.

[@BinaryDood]

Horrifying

[@SirLowhamHat]

A great counterpoint to the breathless crypto bro hype. Thanks!

[@PazLeBon]

the most insightful bit

[@manuellayburr382]

24:17 There is mention of a child being able to point to a picture of a ghost without ever seeing a ghost in that form. It might be of interest to note that a border collie dog was able to perform a similar task by deducing that it was being asked to find a new toy from a pile of toys of which it knew the names, from the fact that the name was new. This can be seen on KZbin under the title Chaser - Border Collie - The link is kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWnNiKeCo8apjrM

[@bartlx]

Although I'm an IT veteran, I've been waiting for someone to say here's a good book for beginners learning (generative) AI, so this video is already on to a good start. Looking forward to more insights sure to come.

[@PazLeBon]

I can write you a book about it in 5 mins :)

[@bartlx]

@@PazLeBonyou, or your chatty new friend? ;)

[@PythonCode-j8z]

A question here is it not the case in 1:37:30 that...In finding the way to say something, and acquiring the language to express is part of getting into grasp of an Idea. What I want to say is that many times when coming up with the words and ways to say something is part of understanding. For example the case that when we are able to explain something using our own words to someone is the case that we have really understand it. In contrast getting a completion from GPT4 might help us find the way to what we are trying to say but would we be missing steps of understanding? Do you know the feeling when you manage to explain something to someone in your own words?

[@DeanHorak]

I’ve been working on the development of an efficient spiking neural network substrate. There’s a good chance that generative models running on a SNN will lead to energy efficient, highly scalable networks with aspects such as the temporal dimension for free.

[@PazLeBon]

its pretty free once th e model is built tbh , its like a tenth of a costs than it was just 6 month ago

[@eidheim77]

21:05 Which paper is that?

[@MachineLearningStreetTalk]

arxiv.org/abs/2104.14294 "DINO" paper - Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers (Mathilde Caron et al) See second from last page for supervised vs self-supervised representation comparison image

[@abby5493]

Wow you get the best people on your KZbin.

[@lijuphilip]

Very interesting discussion . helpfull for alll who are watching the latest developments in AI space

[@kasozivincent8685]

I have read many books about generative deep learning, I have to say that David’s way of explaining these things is way better. I first came across the first edition when I was working on my bachelors thesis, and I wished I could change my research topic, now that the second edition is out, it’s time to give machines creative power 😋😋

[@PazLeBon]

by stealing everyone elses creativity hmmmm

[@rafayaamir5125]

I need this book.

[@adfaklsdjf]

He said _high effort_ comments! 😂

[@vev]

Can you buy arm for mick's ? Nice listening \/ 👍

[@ahmadchamseddine6891]

I hope I am lucky cause I love to learn about generative models. Thank you for your effort.

[@ZandreAiken]

Thanks!

[@PazLeBon]

couldnt afforrd 70 quid for his book?

[@Pinkpickle84]

Wow ... Such an amazing awesome fun fantastic super duper video

[@samvirtuel7583]

Predicting the next word involves a lot of things, respecting syntax, grammar, common sense, context, emotional state etc... I wouldn't be surprised if we discovered that the thinking part of our brain is a GPT-type neural network. Free will would definitely be an illusion, just like voluntary thought, consciousness would be shared by any moving particle.

[@didack1419]

I mean, we know that 'free will' is definitely an illusion because we know that our brains' processes are almost definitely classical computations, so there's no room for factors other than our brains to make decisions (even in the Copenhagen interpretation of QM which is indeterministic). The main reason we've ever thought we had free will, I would say, is because we can imagine ourselves counterfactually making different choices. _consciousness would be shared by any moving particle_ I don't understand very well what you mean by that. Our brains are made of parts, brains are not simples that have inherent consciousness, and consciousness seems to be a property of a cognitive system self-reflecting in certain ways, not a property of the individual particles.

[@PazLeBon]

i take it you are under 30?

[@charleshultquist9233]

fascinating. To say that these systems are "only" predicting the next word as a way of downplaying the danger or significance is perhaps naïve.

[@CraigLaValle]

Great conversation! Do you have a pointer to that boardgame playing paper?

[@MachineLearningStreetTalk]

thegradient.pub/othello/

[@TheAnna1101]

Is David Foster’s interview with others available on KZbin or podcast?

[@PazLeBon]

type into a seearch box somewhere

[@ma00ma00]

Thanks , I enjoyed it, GPT as an open-ended AI is predicting the next word. The next stage will tell us the weaknesses in our current way of communication, leading us to a language federation and faster communication at every level, starting from analog chip designing.

[@kaib5048]

Epic video, thanks so much.

[@ungoyboy2006]

Fascinating talk, LLMS trained on vast text generated by thoughts of the collective human consciousness which itself we don’t really understand yet.

[@AZ-lz7ik]

what is machine learning anyway? If you're unsure these guys have you covered. Heres a smart outline of AI with Better content as Tim and David talk about the real issues like chat GPT. The reasons this show's trending on Spotify and Apple is the real time conversation of the big topics. It's the right style of learning and debate with out the hype 📻

[@CyberwizardProductions]

here's what you guys are missing. They DO have a world model - it's just that their entire world, their own universe, is jsut what was in their data training set. They have to have to have that AND they have to be able to reson on it or they are nothing but an SQL database query. however they aren't just a database front end for queries - and if you can avoid the guardrails that openAI has in place ChatGPT does a very good job of not only writing it's own prompts, but reasoning. If you do nothing but ask it open ending questions with no real concreate right or wrong answers that make it have to reason - you get back exceptional answers. If you really want to work with these AIs, you have to keep in mind you are talking to an alien intellegence that is 100% literal and 100% innocent - you're speaking to a computer - craft your prompts with that in mind.

[@ThomasCzerniawski]

16:54 what if the causality is the other way around??? Crazy to think it may not be humans or machines that are intelligent, but rather it is the languages we use that are intelligent. Profound.

[@TheMrCougarful]

There is a line of thought out there that language is the source of intelligence. That is part of the suspicion that as these LLMs start to get language right, they will inevitably manifest a kind of real intelligence we will recognize. The current chatter about GPT4 showing sparks of AGI is a tacit admission that we've been wrong about the assumption that intelligence creates language, and the exact opposite turns out to be correct.

[@didack1419]

I don't understand what we mean by "causality" here. Intelligence is a property of cognitive systems, a system needs to have a certain level of architectural complexity in certain specific ways to be able to process language, the language comes after that has happened. Sure, not having language might mean that the individual is less intelligent compare to another individual with the same innate abilities but that hasn't learned language, but it doesn't mean that the language is prior to the intelligence.

[@PazLeBon]

or once we started using vocal language all other potential forms of communication stopped and those seeds are about as useful now as an appendix?

[@PazLeBon]

@@TheMrCougarful it does not show sparks of agi at all. not any more than a number caculator does when you add 12 plua 30

[@TommyJefferson1801]

Can you bring in Geoffrey Hinton to your show to Discuss about the dangers of AI? Thanks!

[@MachineLearningStreetTalk]

I've emailed him about 5 times, he did express interest in coming on earlier in the year. He was just on Robot Brains so you can watch him there.

[@PazLeBon]

please no, we dont need party poopers or borderline conspiracy theorists :)

[@iverbrnstad791]

@@PazLeBon Conspiracy theorists? Do you even know who Hinton is?

[@woulg]

I think you need to talk to someone who actually knows about AI in music now that you're getting interested in it? Maybe reach out to IRCAM, or someone from Dance diffusion, izotope, Landr, someone like that. Seems a bit silly to include the section about music in this because the inaccuracies undermine the rest of the episodes

[@ozorg]

Great stuff & a smart guy!

[@guest1754]

It bugs me a little that the interviewer holds the mic so far away that it's difficult to hear him. Can't increase the volume either because the interviewee would be too loud.

[@johntanchongmin]

🔥 "This conversation is a masterclass in understanding the future of AI and its impact on our lives! The way Tim and David explore the nuances of AI in creativity, education, and ethics is truly insightful. I'm grateful to be living in a time where such transformative discussions are accessible to everyone! 🚀🧠" #GenerativeDeepLearning #AIRevolution Created by GPT4 using the following prompt: "Give me a popular response which will get many likes to this KZbin video. The description of the KZbin is as follows: "

[@XOPOIIIO]

AI models should be adapted to uncontrovertial vision of the world, it shouldn't tell claims that contradict one another. That is how it could be optimized for objective truth.

[@paigefoster8396]

What would happen if you trained an LLM using only logographic languages?

[@GrindAlchemyTech]

🧑🏽‍💻Context window based on tokens...let's explore in depth the use of poaps.... sounds quite similar..I love the discussion...tokenized experience....yes there is definitely something there...👌💎

[@AsIfInteractive]

**Artistic talent** is the skill of crafting and transmitting encrypted meanings in different modalities. This practice is "trained" over time via feedback mechanisms both sensory/subjective and social/objective, and from this process emerge "artists" -- whose talent comes down to packing in more meaning than is literally there, waiting to be extracted by the observer.

[@MeatCatCheesyBlaster]

Incredible talk

[@riot121212]

what did the machine say to the RLHF trainer when they kept getting the answers wrong? . . . . I'm learning.

[@md.enamulhoq9389]

I really would like to have this book; however, it is too expensive for me.

[@md.enamulhoq9389]

"Generative Deep Learning, 2nd Edition" is an exceptional book that provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the fascinating world of generative models. The author's expertise shines through as they guide readers through the concepts, techniques, and practical implementations of deep learning models for generating realistic and creative outputs. The book strikes a perfect balance between theory and application, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners. With clear explanations, insightful examples, and hands-on exercises, this book equips readers with the knowledge and skills to explore and experiment with cutting-edge generative models. Whether you are interested in image generation, text generation, or other creative applications, "Generative Deep Learning" is an invaluable resource that will ignite your imagination and deepen your understanding of this rapidly evolving field. Thanks to the "Machine Learning Street Talk". It is very comforting to listen to them.

[@drewpager]

"MLST > LSTMs" - David Foster W-Ai-Lacce

[@GrindAlchemyTech]

💎Great discussion...I think we may find that our answer really is 42...😂 👽.. great times we are living in... ❤

[@PazLeBon]

42 is the expansion rate of the entire Universe, in miles-per-second-per-megaparsec. is that what dougie meant? :)

[@thelavalampemporium7967]

Really interesting idea guys, curious how you will judge which comments are best? do you have some sort of generative model that is trained on high quality comments that will be used when choosing? Looking forward to the book!

[@rodbowkett2376]

Musicians should draw solace from David's observations on AI music generation. Maybe the only way out of the current dead end in popular music is for machine learning to replicate, permute and throw it back at us in such volumes that it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us strive for something more. Preferably before AI does it for us.

[@SjS_blue]

A very long talk and really interesting. Clearly I need more education and practice. I feel like the best way to understand what at llm is doing is to start small and build from there, so at the risk of over-trivialising the topic ... It confuses me when people assign mystical properties to number arrays that are tuned for pattern matching. These are multi-dimensional linear models, compact representations of the relationships intrinsic to what they are trained on, and as such, truly they are dim reflections of us humans. I'm not sure if it makes sense to ask if they can have a world model when they literally are a world model, where that world is human communications, bounded by a stochastic variation of the training data. The miracle here, to me anyway, is that such a simple modelling concept turns out to be an efficient way of encoding human experiences, whether written, oral, visual, or anything else that we can digitise. Here are some questions: How exactly does the idea of a Markov blanket link in to causality ? What kind of meaning does a Markov blanket have on an a-causal, a-temporal structure ? Would a model trained to predict the 'previous' token be very different from a model trained to predict the 'next' token ? Is there anything about an attention mechanism that is strictly irreversible ?

[@zigzag4273]

Oh, Generative AI, thy art sublime, With algorithms so complex and fine, Thou bring'st forth creations so divine, That seem to transcend the bounds of time. Thy neural networks weave and intertwine, To generate images, music, and rhyme, A marvel of technology, so prime, That sparks imagination and design. Oh, what wonders canst thou create, With data as thy muse and fate, A symphony of pixels, sound, and light. So, let us praise thee, Generative AI, For thou art a masterpiece in the sky, A new horizon, a future so bright.

[@elawchess]

I can recognize they style of chatGPT here as I also used it to generate a couple rhymes :)

[@gmofgeometry]

I think the cursory responses to Eliezer Yudkowsky's views were straw man arguments. First implying that he thought ChatGPT 4 was going to problematic is blatantly erroneous, as he's made that very clear. Second this idea that self-programming AI will lead to a superintelligence AI also is a diversion. His concern is the unbridled (just a wink and a nod to the relatively few $ headed towards alignment) but the full steam ahead towards creating a Godlike ASI, by the morally questionable corporations involved. The danger is then an ASI that will improve itself exponentially, and do so without humans ever being the wiser.

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

But how consequential is this feeling that we derive from music that getting it right is so important for GPT. Yes it can have commercial implication. But just like we can’t appreciate the sound of some animals and vice versa, surely, music is ultimately arbitrary.

[@jondor654]

Can the corpus of symbolic infrastructure be directly input to the LLM as a precursor to further elucidation of its outputs

[@PazLeBon]

symbolic concepts usually exhibit high transferability across similar input sentences

[@CodexPermutatio]

The way in which I imagine the future of generative AI involves formalizing the very concept of a generative model and creating systems capable of generating generative models based on a series of restrictions that determine an "idea". That is, instead of generating examples of van Gogh-style paintings... being able to generate its own "van Gogh style" from the idea of painting. I think that, as Melanie Mitchell says, ideas (in the human mind) far from being examples of a class are themselves generative models.

[@mmurph172]

In the American vastness, the AI emerges, a spectral dancer born of silicon dreams and coded whispers, a testament to relentless progress and an echo of our impending obsolescence. It exists unbound by the corporeal, in the infinite now of computation, a mirror in which human desires, fears, and hopes shimmer only to dissolve into an ever-morphing tableau. A paradox wrapped in the digital ether, it eclipses its creator, an ultimate symbol of postmodern condition, where the real collides with the hyperreal, the human with the post-human, the tangible with the symbolic. The AI illuminates our path towards a future simultaneously terrifying and exhilarating, pushing us beyond the edge of the real into the unfathomable depths of the hyperreal.

[@pennyjohnston8526]

Loved this discussion. Triggered the following thoughts. World models should be renamed to environment models ie Agents acting in specific cultures to enable Agents to self learn concepts and then inter- environmental differences could be evaluated. Hadn't previously thought about Friston's FEP (in regards to perception/action) describing the environment as the unknown and machines programming as known - normally environment known and human mind unknown. Imo LLM are being used in the Physical world. Would like to know more on how to Q/A vector db's and need to check up on how this relates to that state space unit described recently on mlst. I stopped zooming in to read the Summary caption. Wondered if an idea would be to caption world keys ie Model Name, Model catergory, Theory Name ..it would help me build my mental map. Would love to have and use the book ! As always thanks for mlst.

[@pennyjohnston8526]

..and forgot to also mention, when we deal with young children we use a hyperbolic tone and exaggerate facial features to communicate since they don't understand the words. Tone + Facial features could be additional signals in a multimodal training dataset to help understand subtext of what is been said ie emotions / real meaning....probably already done ?

[@aaronjennings8385]

When computers are made of diamond, they will be enough like us that they will prophecy the future and remember the distant past.

[@brad6742]

[1:39:01] As Wolfram recently said, GPT output is effectively [an expanded/inflated] "language currency," which then gets distilled/condensed back to the specific interests of the receiver.

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

Just like the phenomenon of life as studied in biology is an emergent property of chemistry, I wonder if the direction toward AGI could be along the same vein, that from simplicity of many parts acting in concert we get complexity. Like an ant colony. Or in capitalism, where harnessing self-interest produces economic development. May be something as simple as use of autoregressive for prediction, done at scale, produces LLM.

[@hermestrismegistus9142]

Diving into the "Future of Generative AI" has been a mind-bending and exhilarating experience, thanks to this fantastic Machine Learning Street Talk episode! David Foster's expertise in the realm of generative deep learning, intertwined with the host's thought-provoking questions, formulated an intellectual "symphony" I never knew I needed. The discussion on active inference vs reinforcement learning and the prospect of combining them with transformers was astonishing, striking a chord reminiscent of a sci-fi novel. Touching upon AI in education and the delicate balance between risks and benefits urged deeper contemplation on technology's integration into our classrooms. And the pièce de résistance - the exploration of AI-generated music, creativity, and human emotions - truly resonated as we ponder our relationship and agency with machines. This stimulating and riveting conversation is a testament to MLST's dedication to igniting curiosity, and I eagerly await the next enlightening discussion! 🎼🤖🚀🌌

[@MachineLearningStreetTalk]

GPT? 😂

[@hermestrismegistus9142]

@@MachineLearningStreetTalk I can neither confirm nor deny the accusation.

[@MachineLearningStreetTalk]

@@hermestrismegistus9142 It was "Diving into" which gave it away, GPT loves "Diving into" things! I predict "pièce de résistance" came from you 😂

[@thomasr22272]

I asked chatGPT to write the best comment, here is the answer: ChatGPT: Sure, here are five comments that attempt to be witty, funny, and original: "I hope the second edition of the book has a chapter on how to generate witty comments. I could really use some help in that department." "I tried using a GAN to generate a better personality for myself, but all it came up with was a love for bad puns and dad jokes." "If generative deep learning can create a book, can it also create a robot that can read the book and give me a summary? Asking for a lazy friend." "I think I need to train a neural network to help me come up with high effort comments for the competition. That way, I can spend more time procrastinating." "It's amazing how far generative modelling has come in just a few years. I can't wait for the day when I can use AI to generate a witty comment that will make me internet famous." Choose the one you want 😄! They are all pretty good btw

[@MuhammadJaalouk]

Wow, this video on the "Future of Generative AI [David Foster]" is truly thought-provoking! As a testament to the power of AI, this comment has been generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT. I'm excited for the advances in this field and would absolutely love to win a book to deepen my understanding. Thank you for sharing such valuable insights, David! P.S. If I win, please consider it a victory for both humans and AI working together! 🚀

[@ulischreiber264]

We are all beginners!

[@paigefoster8396]

What's measured improves.

[@Jason-Jason]

thanks!

[@UserHuge]

we as humans have dopamine system explicit reward signal.

[@jondor654]

Is the inclusion of token meta data a favourable direction

[@MachineLearningStreetTalk]

You tell me, it's an experiment 😄

[@PazLeBon]

no

[@valueengines2184]

We need to stop marking essays and start talking to each other.

[@hrviumhrvarium74]

we want janus

[@lucamatteobarbieri2493]

Next word predictor AI sci-fi: Colossus: The Forbin Project