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Ethan Sutin: uncertainty

2 Aug 2024 Latent Space The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars Recap) + ChatGPT Voice Mode Preview

“How would we know it's actually thinking and not just outputting, like, silent tokens? I don't know.”

— Ethan Sutin

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Speaker
Ethan Sutin
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
2 Aug 2024
Publisher
Latent Space

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…Yeah, it doesn't do that, right? There's an interesting idea around variable time inference and hidden chain of thought. So, tell it that it can pause and think. Have you tried that? No. No, that's very interesting. So what would be a good case for that? So like, alright, we need like some sort of complicated question, right? How would we know it's actually thinking and not just outputting, like, silent tokens? I don't know. Yeah, just, just some kind of, like, riddle.…

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