Sean Carroll
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26,727 appearances
49 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 21 Sep
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how they're trained and what they're doing.
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LLMs are really, really good at conventional things, at things where people have talked about them a lot.
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This is why LLMs are especially good at computer programming, because a lot of computer pro programming is doing a task that someone else has already figured out how to do, right?
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And it's in the L LLM's training data, and the LLM just has to apply it for you.
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But from my own uh use of LLMs, which is often in areas of theoretical physics that are not well established, right?
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I'm trying to figure out new things, that's where the LLMs are not any good, right?
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If they don't have uh data in their training set that is easily interpolatable into the relevant conditions that they're asked about, then they can stumble and make things up and
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They can often act very confident in their wrong answers.
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Okay.
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So I worry that if I were innocent of a serious crime, that the LLMs would just look at other people who were accused of such serious crimes, figure out that usually they were guilty and find me guilty.
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It's not quite that simple, but you know what I mean.
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They would fall into a pattern, whereas I have more trust in the human.
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human beings to be able to look into the specialness of the particular situation, which is what is called for when you're on a jury.
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So as of right now, give me the human beings any day.
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Adam Mills says if gravity is a wave, can information be passed through it similar to other waves?
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Could we theoretically manipulate gravity waves the same way we manipulate radio waves?
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If that's possible and we had the technology to do so, what applications could we choose to use gravity waves for as opposed to using another wave?
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So gravity waves are waves, just like electromagnetic waves.
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Um, information can be passed through them, just like other waves.
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It will never be a useful, plausible way to convey information.
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