Colin

Driven by industry progress, inspired by provocative leadership, plus don't mind a good pair of shoes or a great @PennStateFball scoreboard either.

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Three things about AI detection 1. It’s not possible to tell for sure whether a passage of text is generated by AI. 2. It’s apparently possible to do better than chance in many real world situations. 3. It may not be possible to do sufficiently better than chance for most obvious applications.

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One of the earliest examples that really shocked me with LLMs was this circa early 2024. This still blows my mind to this day. Somehow it simultaneously has the full text of Harry Potter memorized and the wherewithal to translate it into mathbb characters. This is incredibly strange.

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I hereby declare that I do not give Anthropic or Dario Amodei permission to use my posts or any content I have ever posted to train Claude or any AI models. This profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308 and the Rome Statute).

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I was kind of wrong about LLMs. Not totally wrong but kind of.

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Now that it’s been out for a month I’m curious to know: what great new drinks have you discovered using the Starbucks ChatGPT app? How has it impacted drink discoverability for you overall?

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I’ll just say, like, I can recognize AI text pretty well. I have high precision. And I don’t think my brain is magic. So surely there is a way to do at least as well as me.

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