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Shawn Wang: evaluation

23 Jul 2024 Latent Space Llama 2, 3 & 4: Synthetic Data, RLHF, Agents on the path to Open Source AGI

“The other thing is RLHF came from the alignment community. And I think there's a lot of conception that maybe it's due to safety concerns, but I feel like it's really over the past two, three years expanded to just this produces a better model period, even if you don't really are not that concerned about existential risk.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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evaluation
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23 Jul 2024
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Latent Space

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…It is fascinating. The other thing is RLHF came from the alignment community. And I think there's a lot of conception that maybe it's due to safety concerns, but I feel like it's really over the past two, three years expanded to just this produces a better model period, even if you don't really are not that concerned about existential risk. I always feel like it's so interesting to see this, like people who take alignment super seriously, they're the first to consider super alignment. And now we're considered like, I'm almost thinking about this as like super quality, that we are training models that are higher quality than humans. And it's not really about alignment so much as like, we now see that this is actually possible. Yeah. And it's not even for alignment purposes. We just think it's better at reasoning, better at knowledge, better at everything. Well, I don't know how much better yet it is on those, but clearly it's super human on some writing skills and it's super useful. I think that's great, to be honest.…

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