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Episode Synopsis
Take a trip with me through the paper Large Language Models, A Survey, published on February 9th of 2024. All figures and tables mentioned throughout the episode can be found on the Into AI Safety podcast website.00:36 - Intro and authors01:50 - My takes and paper structure04:40 - Getting to LLMs07:27 - Defining LLMs & emergence12:12 - Overview of PLMs15:00 - How LLMs are built18:52 - Limitations if LLMs23:06 - Uses of LLMs25:16 - Evaluations and Benchmarks28:11 - Challenges and future directions29:21 - Recap & outroLinks to all articles/papers which are mentioned throughout the episode can be found below, in order of their appearance.Large Language Models, A SurveyMeysam's LinkedIn PostClaude E. ShannonA symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits (Master's Thesis)Communication theory of secrecy systemsA mathematical theory of communicationPrediction and entropy of printed EnglishFuture ML Systems Will Be Qualitatively DifferentMore Is DifferentSleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety TrainingAre Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models just In-Context Learning?Attention is all you needDirect Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward ModelKTO: Model Alignment as Prospect Theoretic OptimizationOptimization by Simulated AnnealingMemory and new controls for ChatGPTHallucinations and related concepts—their conceptual background
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