AIs with anxiety, and why AIs don’t know what happened

In episode 42 of the AI Fix, our hosts discover why ads for the Neo Gamma robot are so sinister, Graham plays peek-a-boo with a crow, humans give up writing, an AI designs a drug, an upstart AI agent gets everyone’s attention, and a talking fish offers our hosts some sage advice.

Graham wonders if AIs have feelings, and Mark introduces Graham to the reversal curse and explains why AIs don’t know what happened.

Episode links:

• When AI met Billy Bass fish.
• Manus.
• AM Turing award.
• NEO Gamma robot.
• Insilico Medicine's AI-driven drug Rentosertib receives official generic name.
• The Widespread Adoption of Large Language Model-Assisted Writing Across Society.
• Assessing and alleviating state anxiety in large language models.
• ChatGPT on the Couch? How to Calm a Stressed-Out AI.
• Geoffrey Hinton on AI having feelings.
• Intuitive physics understanding emerges from self-supervised pretraining on natural videos.
• Episodic Memories Generation and Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models.
• The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A".

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