News: Twitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as "calculators for words", SudoLang & stochastic parrots

Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopilot, Simon Willison shares a good way for us to think about LLMs, Eric Elliot creates a powerful pseudocode programming language for LLMs & I define and demystify the term “stochastic parrot”.

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Twitter’s algorithm
  • Rowan Cheung
• Auto-GPT
• Think of an LLM as a “calculator for words”
• A Powerful Pseudocode Programming Language for LLMs
• What is a stochastic parrot?
  • On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Twitter algorithm
(02:29) - Yo LLM so fat
(03:14) - Auto-GPT
(03:45) - LLMs are "calculators for words"
(04:33) - SudoLang
(05:16) - Stochastic parrots
(07:13) - Outro

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