Ethan Mollick on X: "This isn't reliable enough yet, but it is a sign of what is coming: Claude 3.5 here's excel of my startup's finances, make a dashboard Add sensitivity analysis of key assumptions Run it as a Monte Carlo simulation Assuming a normal distribution, what are outcomes? All first try https://t.co/JBnudGihja" / X

x.com/emollick/status/1806321738734600337

Marzena Karpinska on X: "Can #LLMs truly reason over loooong context? 🤔 NoCha asks LLMs to verify claims about *NEW* fictional books 🪄 📚 ⛔ LLMs that solve needle-in-the-haystack (~100%) struggle on NoCha! ⛔ None of 11 tested LLMs reach human performance → 97%. The best, #GPT-4o, gets only 55.8%. https://t.co/beuo7q9KIj" / X

x.com/mar_kar_/status/1805660949023793224

Gizem Akdag on X: "Here is a Midjourney Style Reference that I think you'll like: --sref 3721090848. Save this code for calm, soft vibes. This one works really well with architecture, city, and interior design shots. Also, with a 35 mm film look, it gives a vintage feel. This time, I used Krea https://t.co/hKQhkCx6MI" / X

x.com/gizakdag/status/1785257036151656918

Tuhin Chakrabarty on X: "New paper with students @BarnardCollege on testing orthogonal thinking / abstract reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models using the fascinating yet frustratingly difficult @nytimes Connections game. #NLProc #LLMs #GPT4o #Claude3opus 🧵(1/n) https://t.co/jDfCbpPi2Z" / X

x.com/TuhinChakr/status/1805999559585227002

François Fleuret on X: "This is an argument often used (by me included), but I find it slightly unsatisfactory. Consider natural selection as a process that given *tons of training data* produce a 100k x 100k configuration of the game of life (that's roughly the information in human dna). 1/3" / X

x.com/francoisfleuret/status/1806037891757293626

clem 🤗 on X: "Pumped to announce the brand new open LLM leaderboard. We burned 300 H100 to re-run new evaluations like MMLU-pro for all major open LLMs! Some learning: - Qwen 72B is the king and Chinese open models are dominating overall - Previous evaluations have become too easy for recent" / X

x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1805989925080219927

Anna Mills, annamillsoer.bsky.social, she/her on X: "Can we tell when a student submission is AI? This study from the University of Reading suggests not. "The university’s markers – who were not told about the project – flagged only one of the 33 entries." https://t.co/dTuSCTJnHF" / X

x.com/AnnaRMills/status/1806033830027182423

Ethan Mollick on X: "Researchers secretly added AI-created the papers to the exam pool: “We found that 94% of our AI submissions were undetected. The grades awarded to our AI submissions were on average half a grade boundary higher than that achieved by real students.“ https://t.co/z8IX14133B. https://t.co/JDmET3q7pw" / X

x.com/emollick/status/1806040241104470228

(1) https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13121 - Search / X

x.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2406.13121&src=typed_query&f=top

Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More?

arxiv.org/abs/2406.13121

(2) Posts liked by mark erdmann (@markerdmann) / X

x.com/markerdmann/likes

Optimizing Instructions and Demonstrations for Multi-Stage Language Model Programs

arxiv.org/abs/2406.11695

(1) Dan Hendrycks on X: "Nat's right so I think I'm going to make 2-3 more benchmarks to replace MMLU and MATH." / X

x.com/DanHendrycks/status/1804929811703591345

(2) Eugene Yan (SF 22 - 28 June) on X: "i previously spoke to a team who only used embedding-based retrieval. i suggested, insisted, they try lexical search. at our next chat, they shared that 80% of the relevant docs now come from lexical search. i.e., without lexical search they were missing 80% of the juice for RAG. https://t.co/2N92Xygw1G" / X

x.com/eugeneyan/status/1804270554033328359

Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy - Nature

www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07421-0

(2) Andrej Karpathy on X: "The way to think about asking a factual question to an LLM is that it's a bit like asking a person who read about the topic previously, but they are not allowed to reference any material and have to answer just from memory. LLMs are a lot better at memorizing than humans, but the" / X

x.com/karpathy/status/1804208334033371213

How to use Claude’s artifacts

medium.com/@simeon.emanuilov/how-to-use-claudes-artifacts-908835dbd96a

(1) Keyon Vafa on X: "New paper: How can you tell if a transformer has the right world model? We trained a transformer to predict directions for NYC taxi rides. The model was good. It could find shortest paths between new points But had it built a map of NYC? We reconstructed its map and found this: https://t.co/5z6sglnRIQ" / X

x.com/keyonV/status/1803838591371555252

2406.04692v1.pdf

arxiv.org/pdf/2406.04692

Aqua Voice - Voice-only Document Editor

withaqua.com/?ref=upstract.com

(1) Rob Wiblin on X: ""The results were otherworldly. Claude is fully capable of acting as a Supreme Court Justice right now. When used as a law clerk, Claude is easily as insightful and accurate as human clerks, while towering over humans in efficiency." https://t.co/tfdYtHSqnT https://t.co/83t85g5Wtp" / X

x.com/robertwiblin/status/1803388400084381787

NeurIPS-2021-attention-approximates-sparse-distributed-memory-Paper.pdf

proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2021/file/8171ac2c5544a5cb54ac0f38bf477af4-Paper.pdf

Lienid on X: "@mikeknoop been clear for a while that transformers have nailed associative memory. it even maps to a biologically plausible mechanism. frankly i’m not sure how people haven’t come to this conclusion yet https://t.co/remVwHBlYd" / X

x.com/0xLienid/status/1803530958207066114

Mike Knoop on X: "If superintelligence is human-level skill acquisition (AGI) plus narrow super-human characteristics, like memorization or inference speed, this is plausibly within reach. The former still requires new 0 to 1 ideas (see ARC Prize) but the latter already exists." / X

x.com/mikeknoop/status/1803528066616246478

Rohan Paul on X: "Transformer models can learn robust reasoning skills (beyond those of GPT-4-Turbo and Gemini-1.5-Pro) through a stage of training dynamics that continues far beyond the point of overfitting (i.e. with 'Grokking') 🤯 For a challenging reasoning task with a large search space,… https://t.co/Tl9bND5PHq" / X

x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1803478727067603055

Gary Basin 🍍 on X: "Why deep learning is ngmi in one graph https://t.co/lZwvEnXy8H" / X

x.com/garybasin/status/1802465723215737112

davidad 🎇 on X: "When @GaryMarcus and others (including myself) say that LLMs do not “reason,” we mean something quite specific, but it’s hard to put one’s finger on it, until now. Specifically, Transformers do not generalize algebraic structures out of distribution." / X

x.com/davidad/status/1802576341470216362

abhav on X: "Something weird is afoot. quick story involving: - open source "reasoning" SOTA LLM (only 7B params, and from china!) - big math doing small math - a $1M opportunity well, almost $1m and that is really tough. anyway, strap in 🍿🧵" / X

x.com/abhav_k/status/1802572167617626399

Hesam on X: "Reasoning with LLM is Hard! ​ Large Language Models need help with generalized reasoning capabilities, and a key factor is how we prompt them. ​ 📌 Traditional prompting methods such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT) or Tree-of-Thought (ToT) often require multiple assumptions or numerous… https://t.co/XtRVXNSydX" / X

x.com/itsHesamSheikh/status/1801934604334477355

AlphaMath Almost Zero: process Supervision without process

arxiv.org/abs/2405.03553

Aran Komatsuzaki on X: "@jeremyphoward Btw there are many other recent papers with LLM + MCTS for reasoning with successful results. Here are some interesting ones: - https://t.co/TpE92UMx2C - https://t.co/1Kh8rVyTat" / X

x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1803482585378726379

Alessio Fanelli on X: "How AI is eating Finance 📈 @vagabondjack is back on @latentspacepod! He shared all the AI Engineering wisdom he acquired while turning LLMs into AI thought partners @brightwaveio for customers with >$120B under management 💰 - Why he lost faith in long context windows - 3 https://t.co/AKJ82amHDC" / X

x.com/FanaHOVA/status/1800553625607155856

Xing Han Lu on X: "Announcing ⚡BM25S, a fast lexical retrieval library! 🏎️ Up to 500x faster than the most popular Python lib, matches @Elastic search (BM25 default) 🤗 First BM25 library that is directly integrated with @huggingface hub: load or save in 1 line! GitHub: https://t.co/iuQleXIGgX https://t.co/trNv0QbUao" / X

x.com/xhluca/status/1803100958408241597

Naomi Saphra on X: "Modern generative models are trained to imitate human experts, but can they actually beat those experts? Our new paper uses imitative chess agents to explore when a model can "transcend" its training distribution and outperform every human it's trained on. https://t.co/oKsIh5nVBk https://t.co/rA3TzmIXm7" / X

x.com/nsaphra/status/1803114822445465824

Patterns for Building LLM-based Systems & Products

eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-patterns/

Arvind Narayanan on X: "Tired: train/test leakage. Wired: benchmark contamination. Inspired: resample until answer is correct." / X

x.com/random_walker/status/1803392358093857127

(1) Alex Cheema - e/acc on X: "Llama 3 running locally on iPhone with MLX Built by @exolabs_ team @mo_baioumy h/t @awnihannun MLX & @Prince_Canuma for the port https://t.co/4swkM7mOfI" / X

x.com/ac_crypto/status/1781061013716037741

2406.11741v1.pdf

arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11741

Context caching  |  Google AI for Developers  |  Google for Developers

ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/caching?lang=python

x.com/johnathanbi/status/1803096216299090267?s=12

Pass@k or Pass@1? · Issue #1 · trotsky1997/MathBlackBox

github.com/trotsky1997/MathBlackBox/issues/1

quickwit-oss/tantivy: Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust

github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy

Olympiad Solutions - Search / X

x.com/search?q=Olympiad%20Solutions&src=typed_query

The 100 Rep Squat Challenge

kettlebellaerobics.substack.com/p/the-100-rep-squat-challenge

Applied LLMs - What We’ve Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs

applied-llms.org/

(1) Terry Yue Zhuo on X: "In the past few months, we’ve seen SOTA LLMs saturating basic coding benchmarks with short and simplified coding tasks. It's time to enter the next stage of coding challenge under comprehensive and realistic scenarios! -- Here comes BigCodeBench, benchmarking LLMs on solving… https://t.co/w3Z6N5wnVk" / X

x.com/terryyuezhuo/status/1803076834520945117

(2) François Chollet on X: "I believe that program synthesis will solve reasoning. And I believe that deep learning will solve program synthesis (by guiding a discrete program search process). But I don't think you can go all that far with just prompting a LLM to generate end-to-end Python programs (even…" / X

x.com/fchollet/status/1803096195684012371

Caiming Xiong on X: "🎆I am pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the Salesforce Embedding Model (SFR-embedding-v2), which has reclaimed the top-1 position on the MTEB benchmark. ✨ Key Highlights: 🥇 Achieved the distinction of being the second model to surpass a 70+ performance… https://t.co/ucs4gXfp1v" / X

x.com/CaimingXiong/status/1802879572385714496