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Extracting Concepts from GPT-4
Using new techniques for scaling sparse autoencoders, we automatically identified 16 million patterns in GPT-4's computations.
1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than Good in K-12 Education
Article URL: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/05/15/a-quarter-of-u-s-teachers-say-ai-tools-do-more-harm-than-good-in-k-12-education/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40528708 Points: 54 # Comments: 78
Disrupting deceptive uses of AI by covert influence operations
We’ve terminated accounts linked to covert influence operations; no significant audience increase due to our services.
Accelerating the development of life-saving treatments
Accelerating the development of life-saving treatments.
The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
Today's LLMs are susceptible to prompt injections, jailbreaks, and other attacks that allow adversaries to overwrite a model's original instructions with their own malicious prompts.
Reducing health insurance costs and improving care
Oscar brings AI to health insurance, reducing costs and improving patient care.
Navigating the challenges and opportunities of synthetic voices
We’re sharing lessons from a small scale preview of Voice Engine, a model for creating custom voices.
What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools
Article URL: https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709912 Points: 413 # Comments: 39
Improving health literacy and patient well-being
Lifespan uses GPT-4 to radically improve health literacy and patient outcomes.
Using AI to improve patient access to clinical trials
Paradigm uses OpenAI’s API to improve patient access to clinical trials.
Video generation models as world simulators
We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our largest model, Sora, is capable of generating a minute of high fidelity video. Our results suggest that scaling video generation models is a promising path towards building general purpose simulators of the physical world.
Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors
Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
We’re developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that a large language model (LLM) could aid someone in creating a biological threat. In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, we found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy. While this uplift is not large enough to be conclusive, our finding is a starting point for continued research and community deliberation.
Democratic inputs to AI grant program: lessons learned and implementation plans
We funded 10 teams from around the world to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI. We summarize the innovations, outline our learnings, and call for researchers and engineers to join us as we continue this work.
Building agricultural database for farmers
Digital Green uses OpenAI to increase farmer income.
Increasing accuracy of pediatric visit notes
Summer Health reimagines pediatric doctor’s visits with OpenAI.
Weak-to-strong generalization
We present a new research direction for superalignment, together with promising initial results: can we leverage the generalization properties of deep learning to control strong models with weak supervisors?
AI-Exploits: Repo of multiple unauthenticated RCEs in AI tools
Article URL: https://github.com/protectai/ai-exploits Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291880 Points: 67 # Comments: 18
Frontier risk and preparedness
To support the safety of highly-capable AI systems, we are developing our approach to catastrophic risk preparedness, including building a Preparedness team and launching a challenge.