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> [1] Is a summary of [2], by one of its authors, not a separate source. Yes. Your point? I included both because I found them both interesting. The paper is

> [1] Is a summary of [2], by one of its authors, not a separate source. Yes. Your point? I included both because I found them both interesting. The paper is the source, the 137 emergent behaviours page is one of the authors continuing the work, and [3] is a journalist talking about this, so I included it as it's a unique perspective. I used the word "emergent" because that's what the SME used when describing this. From 5.1 in the paper linked: > Although there are dozens of examples of emergent abilities, there are currently few compelling explanations for why such abilities emerge in the way they do. You say this "should be surprising to no one", yet the authors disagree. Additionally, in the GPT-4 system card - "Emergent" appears 15 times, specificly section 2.9 is interesting https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf So it's not just a word used callously by one group of researchers at Google.

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YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
Not the OP but the point they're trying to make (not very politely) is that you're largely uncritically repeating claims made by OpenAI and Google about their commercial products. If you do that, you're not helping anyone, including yourself, understand what's really going on. Where I went to school, the teachers kept repeating that they wanted us to think critically about stuff when we were writing essays for homework. They didn't really know how to teach that, so most kids didn't learn it, but it's a valuable life skill: learn to think about what people say, and why, not just take everything everyone says at face value, especially when the person is in a position of some sort of authority (like being the people who released a system, or who wrote a paper, or, hashem yerachem, The Godfathers of AI). Authority is the mind killer.

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YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago

Not the OP but the point they're trying to make (not very politely) is that you're largely uncritically repeating claims made by OpenAI and Google about their commercial products. If you do that, you're not helping anyone, including yourself, understand what's really going on. Where I went to school, the teachers kept repeating that they wanted us to think critically about stuff when we were writing essays for homework. They didn't really know how to teach that, so most kids didn't learn it, but it's a valuable life skill: learn to think about what people say, and why, not just take everything everyone says at face value, especially when the person is in a position of some sort of authority (like being the people who released a system, or who wrote a paper, or, hashem yerachem, The Godfathers of AI). Authority is the mind killer.