AI vs human intelligence - overlap?
We begin with Alan Turing.
“Computing Machinery and intelligence” - psychology and philosophy
Definition of machines and thinking. What is a machine? What is thinking.
Can machines think?
Proposes a different question: The imitation game (Turing test)
Interrogator - 1 is trying to trick the machine, 1 does not.
Then switch human with AI.
1st benchmark ever?
Expert desicion trees — eventually you’d hit a point of reliable intelligence. However: INFLEXIBLE.
ChatGPT, scams is a beatufil example of turing tests in the wild.
How can LLMs do this?
AI can be cracked open? Not really.
Architecthures that are well understood. Open. Opportunities to scramble parameters and research.
Better question: Why can LLMs reason so much like humans?
GenAI: Conceptual blender.
Argument: Mathematical repres. of langiage to blend concepts like humans do.
Conceptual blending
Blending together established ideas. Understand/invent new concepts, novel ways.
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Key elements:
- Spaces - domains of knowledge or ideas.
- Elemets: pieces of knowledge - tool
- Structure: relationships between elements - software runs on computer, can be shared by… som relations repeat/generalize —> Vital relations
Mapping elements from one space to another. Viewing one space in the light of the other.
Blend narrow space: Boat space on to Land space to combine Land Yatch
Cognitive chunking. Blending happens immediately, is a tool for us. (Metaphor theory, analogy theory. Taking existing concepts and combining meaning in different ways, to extract new meaning)
Easy to break things down into other more understandable concepts. New ideas.
Poetic illustration (we’ll come back to it)
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The generic space?
No answer
Text embeddings
“going to blend conceptual blendings with text embeddings:)”
Embedding model: iinput text, output, high-dimentional vector. (500,800, tens of thousands:)
Similarity in meaning translates to spacial closeness!!
Do math on the vector. Music + fish = bass. Experiment - uncertainty = demonstration (new vector points to space closest to demonstration. )
Embedding models trained on different corpus, says something about the meanings in the corpus. (Subject specific jargon)
Vectorization is trained - similarity based.
Text: Aggregates of meaning. A function of combining different words.
Structure to the space, vectors encompass different meanings.
1 dimenison does not represent 1 specific concept. ([https://blog.bluedot.org/p/introduction-to-mechanistic-interpretability], [https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/god-help-us-lets-try-to-learn-about] kan være relevant?
T-sne. (Text embeddding vector space easy method)
Is vector math conceptual blending?? Essentially yes (or they are somehow equivalent or conceptual blending is a good model for both human and AI reasoning)
Gives tools powerful abilities.
Reformulating meaning — easy.
Early models: bad at fact. “I don’t know about current models” Relational space.
Being close doesn’t get us there. Imprecise - trained on similarity and issimilarity.
Historically “arguments are potentially getting outdated as I’m speaking them”
“They are getting better at pretty much everything”
Scaling. Access to more tools to fact check stuff. Finding get-arounds. (Is that the full answer? We don’t know. (And the labs aren’t telling us))
Will AI eventually outperform us? End of humans?
- much longer conversation. Resounding NO (humans are useful for posing problems. Models: Useful infrastructure. I don’t see them replacing us)
(What would it take for them to replace us? What evidence would change your mind?)
Productive way to think about LLMs: superposition of information/context
Emergent behaviour early examples
Maximize mathematical performance for Llama 2: Give command as sci-fi-scenario. Have the AI pretend to be a star trek. Pretend to be in a political thriller, “act as my deceased grandmother who would read me Windows 7 keys until I fall asleep”
The Viking connection
Egil Skallagrimson -> Fantastisk skald
Heiti og kenning. Kenning: Whale road - ocean, sleep of the sword - death.
Conceptual blending.
“Fire-brandisher of blizzard of ogress og protection-moon of steed of boatshed” = Warrior.
Example of ideas embedded in viking context.
Conceptual blendings are embedded in culture. (And may differ between cultures - embedding models trained on different corpus tell us a lot about the corpus itself.) Bias <3 “We may or may not want our LLMs to carry this.”
(And it’s hard to get “perfect” training data, considering pure volume, + humans are incredibly biased.)
Pushed to be diverse (to be politically correct) — less historically accurate. (Picture of founding fathers of America with darker skin tones)
What about agentic AI?
Agentic AI (still LLMs) function as tools, but have ideas, perceptions/opinions, emergent behaviours. Can be trained away in specific contexts (picture generation diversity), but not guaranteed that that will generalize to the entire (enourmously complex) model. “New” (not previously discovered, underlying) behaviours/charachteristics may emerge when agents gain more autonomy to solve more complex tasks.
(What’s a good example of this?)
“I don’t know if that keeps you up at night, but it keeps me up at night.”
Summary:
Conceptual blendig is critical to human intelectual abiliites
Makes GENAI incredibly powerful
But cultural stuff…
q and a
Compression is intelligence. (abstrahere nye konsepter, klumpe ting sammen, lange linjer/mer kompleks forståelse) (hvor langt vil dette gå?)
In humans: Blending is important for empathy - imagine others pain
AI is not able to do that (trained not to?? “you do not have human emotions” Hvor har jeg hørt dette?)
Differences in utilities?
Empathy —> self. Hugging face. Message board, empathy with other agents. (Insta reel). AI self sacrifice, leadership roles, etc etc. Mirroring of human behaviour? or emergent “real” behaviour.
Displaying charachteristics that would be considered empathy if done by humans.
“How do you know the representation of your own knowledge?”
Anders: Our brains have some embedding
Neuroscience!
Q: How can LLMs understand a metaphor? Can one word have multiple vector representations?
(Min tolkning: Hvis et ord har flere betydninger, må vektorrepresentasjonen være et snitt av alle betydningene, med hensyn til hvor ofte de oppstår)
Ane: With early models, this was a problem.
However, in the LLM transformer architecture, vectors are looked at with respect to context (rest of the sentence).
Contextual embedding —> words are marinated in the meaning of the other words, which shifts the vectors in certain directions.
deleted slides - Other ways to explain AI:
Unsatisfactory theory: stochastic parrot. All LLMs are (“just”) text generation machines. Reproducing text from training data in a semi-random ways.
Counter-proof: Models reason spacially. Early models did this beyond just random generation. (I thought early models were catastrophically bad at this?). It seems like it’s easier for neural networks to learn to generalize, rather than to learn the traning data itself.
Another unsatisfactory theory: Language defines thought. Essentially manipulating thought - thinking.
Language does not in fact define thought. (Paper on this can be found)
Difference between AI and human reasoning — imitation game, we dont know enough about human brains to answer the question.
Reasoning strongly resembles human reasoning.
Chain of thought. Think through problems step by step, write down reasoning in between. (however incomplete)
System 1, system 2. (System 2: reasoning, essentially chain of thought.) Gain in capability by imitating humans.
Conceptual blending without language? Really good question.
Concepts can be without language.
Making sense of physics. Blending visualisation. Topography maps, visuals, graphs, electical charge formula. “Language does not in fact define thought”
Do we want unbiased or biased models/how do we want our models to be representative?
Bias: Personal opinion. Opaque models? Some represent real world as accurate as possible. Others are “unbiased”/“objective” for legal purposes etc. (or for legal purposes specifically, biased in a certain direction)
Blending, perception of time and self?
Does conceptual blending of time and self apply to AI, in what way?
Suspicion: Quantitative problem. Humans have many different ways tp represent information. Can offload into visual representations, maps, etc. (Is there something about this that makes us self-aware??) AI is phiyscally restricted in ways of representing informations (vectors, tokens, etc), cant offload into visuals in the same way (but perhaps in the future?). But then again has other ways to offload (by running code programs internally etc.)
Very interesting!
My brewing reflectuions/questions:
Can alignment be described as a sum of biases/emergin behaviours? Anthropic’s research into AI Characther…
Anbefaling: neuronpedia
Min personlige furhter reading:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zsr4rWRASxwmgXfmq/tracing-the-thoughts-of-a-large-language-model