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Audio format of posts on interconnects.ai -- generated with AI from the author.

    RLHF: A thin line between useful and lobotomized

    RLHF: A thin line between useful and lobotomized

    Many, many signs of life for preference fine-tuning beyond spoofing chat evaluation tools.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/how-rlhf-works-2
    00:00 How RLHF works, part 2: A thin line between useful and lobotomized04:27 The chattiness paradox08:09 The mechanism for making models chattier10:42 Next steps for RLHF research
    Fig 1: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/rlhf/img_012.webpFig 2: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/rlhf/img_018.pngFig 3: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/rlhf/img_025.png

    • 13 min
    Phi 3 and Arctic: Outlier LMs are hints

    Phi 3 and Arctic: Outlier LMs are hints

    Models that seem totally out of scope from recent open LLMs give us a sneak peek of where the industry will be in 6 to 18 months.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/phi-3-and-arctic-llms
    0:00 Phi 3 and Arctic: Outlier LMs are hints1:01 Arctic & open mixture of expert trends6:10 Phi 3, synthetic data, and small models
    Fig 1: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/phi3/img_004.pngFig 2: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/phi3/img_008.pngFig 3: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/phi3/img_018.png

    • 9 min
    AGI is what you want it to be

    AGI is what you want it to be

    Certain definitions of AGI are backing people into a pseudo-religious corner.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/agi-is-what-you-want-it-to-be
    00:00 AGI is what you want it to be04:01 RL still rules the AGI discourse05:43 Modern AGI tests07:37 Agency and shifting goalposts
    Fig 1: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/agi/img_018.pngFig 2: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/agi/img_020.png

    • 10 min
    Llama 3: Scaling open LLMs to AGI

    Llama 3: Scaling open LLMs to AGI

    Meta shows that scaling won't be a limit for open LLM players in the near future.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/llama-3-and-scaling-open-llms
    00:00 Llama 3; scaling open LLMs to AGI01:44 Pretraining, data, and basic evals06:06 Alignment and human evaluations10:08 Chatting with Meta AI and Llama 3 70B Instruct11:55 Same Llama license (mostly)12:52 The healthy open LLM ecosystem
    Fig 1: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/llama3/img_011.jpegFig 2: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/llama3/img_013.pngFig 3: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/llama3/img_015.pngFig 4: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/llama3/img_020.pngFig 5: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/llama3/img_036.pngFig 6: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/llama3/img_040.pngFig 7: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/llama3/img_046.jpegFig 8: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/llama3/img_061.pngFig 9: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/llama3/img_063.webpFig 10: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/llama3/img_066.pngFig 11: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/llama3/img_068.jpeg

    • 15 min
    Stop "reinventing" everything to "solve" alignment

    Stop "reinventing" everything to "solve" alignment

    Integrating some non computing science into reinforcement learning from human feedback can give us the models we want.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/reinventing-llm-alignment
    0:00 Stop "reinventing" everything to "solve" AI alignment2:19 Social Choice for AI Alignment: Dealing with Diverse Human Feedback7:03 OLMo 1.7 7B: A truly open model with actually good benchmarks
    Fig 1: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/reinvention/img_013.pngFig 2: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/reinvention/img_015.pngFig 3: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/reinvention/img_018.pngFig 4: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/reinvention/img_024.pngFig 5: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/reinvention/img_027.png

    • 7 min
    The end of the "best open LLM"

    The end of the "best open LLM"

    Modeling the compute versus performance tradeoff of many open LLMs.This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs.Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-toolsOriginal post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/compute-efficient-open-llms
    0:00 The end of the "best open LLM"3:05 Compute efficient open LLMs
    Fig 1: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/scaling/img_004.jpegFig 2: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/scaling/img_009.pngFig 3: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/scaling/img_014.pngFig 4: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/scaling/img_016.pngFig 5: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/scaling/img_018.pngFig 6: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/scaling/img_020.pngFig 7: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/scaling/img_022.pngFig 8: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/scaling/img_024.pngFig 9: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/scaling/img_028.png

    • 6 min

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