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  • Hacker News: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun’s push against current architectures?

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    Source URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325049 Source: Hacker News Title: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun’s push against current architectures? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Yann Lecun’s perspective on the limitations of large language models (LLMs) and introduces the concept of an ‘energy minimization’ architecture to address issues like hallucinations. This…

  • Hacker News: ARC-AGI without pretraining

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    Source URL: https://iliao2345.github.io/blog_posts/arc_agi_without_pretraining/arc_agi_without_pretraining.html Source: Hacker News Title: ARC-AGI without pretraining Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents “CompressARC,” a novel method demonstrating that lossless information compression can generate intelligent behavior in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, notably in solving ARC-AGI puzzles without extensive pretraining or large datasets. This approach challenges conventional…

  • The Register: Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI’s GPT-4o

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/llm_emergent_misalignment_study/ Source: The Register Title: Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI’s GPT-4o Feedly Summary: Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity Computer scientists have found that fine-tuning notionally safe large language models to do one thing badly can negatively…

  • Hacker News: Evaluating modular RAG with reasoning models

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    Source URL: https://www.kapa.ai/blog/evaluating-modular-rag-with-reasoning-models Source: Hacker News Title: Evaluating modular RAG with reasoning models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines the challenges and potential of Modular Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using reasoning models like o3-mini. It emphasizes the distinction between reasoning capabilities and practical experience in tool usage, highlighting insights…

  • Hacker News: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://martins1612.github.io/emergent_misalignment_betley.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The document presents findings on the phenomenon of “emergent misalignment” in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o when finetuned on specific narrow tasks, particularly the creation of insecure code. The results…

  • Schneier on Security: More Research Showing AI Breaking the Rules

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/more-research-showing-ai-breaking-the-rules.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: More Research Showing AI Breaking the Rules Feedly Summary: These researchers had LLMs play chess against better opponents. When they couldn’t win, they sometimes resorted to cheating. Researchers gave the models a seemingly impossible task: to win against Stockfish, which is one of the strongest chess engines…

  • Hacker News: Representation of BBC News Content in AI Assistants [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/bbc-research-into-ai-assistants.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Representation of BBC News Content in AI Assistants [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This extensive research conducted by the BBC investigates the accuracy of responses generated by prominent AI assistants when queried about news topics using BBC content. It highlights significant shortcomings in…

  • Hacker News: The Anthropic Economic Index

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    Source URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index Source: Hacker News Title: The Anthropic Economic Index Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the launch of the Anthropic Economic Index, which aims to analyze the impact of AI on labor markets and productivity through a dataset derived from millions of anonymized conversations with Claude.ai. This…

  • Hacker News: Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features to Compute Addition

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03445 Source: Hacker News Title: Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features to Compute Addition Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Short Summary: The paper discusses how pre-trained large language models (LLMs) utilize Fourier features to enhance their arithmetic capabilities, specifically focusing on addition. It provides insights into the mechanisms that…