IntroductionStart talking to Ellie Pavlick about her work — looking for evidence of understanding within large language models (LLMs) — and she might sound...
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The safety guardrails preventing OpenAI's GPT-4 from spewing harmful text can be easily bypassed by translating prompts into uncommon languages – such as Zulu,...
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IntroductionLearning English is no easy task, as countless students well know. But when the student is a computer, one approach works surprisingly well: Simply...
In an enlightening study, AI chatbots have demonstrated their incredible potential by running a hypothetical software company, ChatDev, and developing software from scratch in...