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24 claims from 17 papers

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   BNAI, NO-TOKEN, and MIND-UNITY: Pillars of a Systemic Revolution in Artificial Intelligence

   Jason, Xuezhi, Schuurmans et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Experiments on three large language models show that chain of thought prompting improves performance on a range of arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic reasoning tasks.”
   2. Unchecked“For instance, prompting a 540B-parameter language model with just eight chain of thought exemplars achieves state of the art accuracy on the GSM8K benchmark of math word problems, surpassing even finetuned GPT-3 with a verifier.”

2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

   Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic-level protein structure with a language model

   Lin, Akin, Rao et al. · Science · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“We demonstrate direct inference of full atomic-level protein structure from primary sequence using a large language model.”

3. Computer Science › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

   Discernment and Social Learning as a Companion Training Layer

   Ouyang, Wu, Jiang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“In human evaluations on our prompt distribution, outputs from the 1.3B parameter InstructGPT model are preferred to outputs from the 175B GPT-3, despite having 100x fewer parameters.”
   2. Unchecked“Moreover, InstructGPT models show improvements in truthfulness and reductions in toxic output generation while having minimal performance regressions on public NLP datasets.”

4. Medicine › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

   Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-assisted medical education using large language models

   Kung, Cheatham, ChatGPT et al. · PLOS Digital Health · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“ChatGPT performed at or near the passing threshold for all three exams without any specialized training or reinforcement.”

5. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

   Bubeck, Chandrasekaran, Eldan et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“We demonstrate that, beyond its mastery of language, GPT-4 can solve novel and difficult tasks that span mathematics, coding, vision, medicine, law, psychology and more, without needing any special prompting.”

6. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   A Brief Overview of ChatGPT: The History, Status Quo and Potential Future Development

   Wu, He, Liu et al. · IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“Specifically, from the limited open-accessed resources, we conclude the core techniques of ChatGPT, mainly including large-scale language models, in-context learning, reinforcement learning from human feedback and the key technical steps for developing Chat-…

7. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models

   Jason, Tay, Bommasani et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Thus, emergent abilities cannot be predicted simply by extrapolating the performance of smaller models.”

8. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Structured information extraction from scientific text with large language models

   Dagdelen, Dunn, Lee et al. · Nature Communications · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“This approach represents a simple, accessible, and highly flexible route to obtaining large databases of structured specialized scientific knowledge extracted from research papers.”

9. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

   Wang, Jason, Schuurmans et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Our extensive empirical evaluation shows that self-consistency boosts the performance of chain-of-thought prompting with a striking margin on a range of popular arithmetic and commonsense reasoning benchmarks, including GSM8K (+17.9%), SVAMP (+11.0%), AQuA (…

10. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

    Hoffmann, Borgeaud, Mensch et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“By training over 400 language models ranging from 70 million to over 16 billion parameters on 5 to 500 billion tokens, we find that for compute-optimal training, the model size and the number of training tokens should be scaled equally: for every doubling of…
    2. Unchecked“Chinchilla uniformly and significantly outperforms Gopher (280B), GPT-3 (175B), Jurassic-1 (178B), and Megatron-Turing NLG (530B) on a large range of downstream evaluation tasks.”
    3. Unchecked“As a highlight, Chinchilla reaches a state-of-the-art average accuracy of 67.5% on the MMLU benchmark, greater than a 7% improvement over Gopher.”

11. Computer Science › Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications

    Mathematical discoveries from program search with large language models

    Romera‐Paredes, Barekatain, Novikov et al. · Nature · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Applying FunSearch to a central problem in extremal combinatorics—the cap set problem—we discover new constructions of large cap sets going beyond the best-known ones, both in finite dimensional and asymptotic cases.”

12. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling

    Gao, Biderman, Black et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Our evaluation of the untuned performance of GPT-2 and GPT-3 on the Pile shows that these models struggle on many of its components, such as academic writing.”
    2. Unchecked“Conversely, models trained on the Pile improve significantly over both Raw CC and CC-100 on all components of the Pile, while improving performance on downstream evaluations.”

13. Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence Applications

    Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists

    Korinek · Journal of Economic Literature · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“I argue that economists can reap significant productivity gains by taking advantage of generative AI to automate micro-tasks.”

14. Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science

    Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?

    Chalmers · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“I conclude that while it is somewhat unlikely that current large language models are conscious, we should take seriously the possibility that successors to large language models may be conscious in the not-too-distant future.”

15. Medicine › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

    Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge

    Singhal, Azizi, Tao et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Using a combination of prompting strategies, Flan-PaLM achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on every MultiMedQA multiple-choice dataset (MedQA, MedMCQA, PubMedQA, MMLU clinical topics), including 67.6% accuracy on MedQA (US Medical License Exam questions), sur…
    2. Unchecked“The resulting model, Med-PaLM, performs encouragingly, but remains inferior to clinicians.”
    3. Unchecked“We show that comprehension, recall of knowledge, and medical reasoning improve with model scale and instruction prompt tuning, suggesting the potential utility of LLMs in medicine.”

16. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    A Survey on Evaluation of Large Language Models

    Chang, Xu, Wang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Our key point is that evaluation should be treated as an essential discipline to better assist the development of LLMs.”

17. Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence in Games

    Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior

    Park, O'Brien, Cai, Morris, Liang and Bernstein · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We demonstrate through ablation that the components of our agent architecture--observation, planning, and reflection--each contribute critically to the believability of agent behavior.”