Bostrom says only luck has kept us from a world-ending technology
The cure he proposes is a tag around every neck that uploads your whole day for a machine to watch, and even readers who buy the argument balk at it.
To stop labeling Black men as gorillas, Google stopped labeling gorillas
In 2015, Google Photos filed pictures of Jacky Alciné and a friend, both Black, into an album it labeled Gorillas, and eight years later that same block was still the best answer four companies had.
The knowledge distillation paper trained a network to recognize a digit it never saw
Hinton, Vinyals, and Dean's 2015 paper trained the small network on how the big one ranked every wrong answer, and that soft-target method is the part much of today's 'distillation' leaves out.
HellaSwag's right answer is just the sentence that came next
The 2019 test built to stump machines is now solved, and much of its answer key turns out to be wrong.
A repeated phrase makes a model likelier to repeat it again
The loop shows up under greedy and beam search but not under sampling, and why a trained model favors its own recent words in the first place is still unsettled.