Researchers found Meta’s popular Llama 3.1 70B has a capacity to recite passages from ‘The Sorcerer’s Stone’ at a rate much higher than could happen by chance.

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      10 days ago

      I demand a robot that uselessly splits the difference, knowing more than makes me comfortable, while not knowing enough to be really helpful to me.

      Edit: Lucky for me, even early computers have often achieved this.

      I prefer to consider myself a realist, rather than a pessimist, but I admit both apply.

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    If you ask ‘what’s the fifth word on the hundredth page of the first edition?,’ the AI will almost certainly guess.

    If it guesses wrong, people go ‘Ah-HA! It’s useless, for not knowing that!’

    If it guesses right, people go ‘Ah-HA! Knowing that fact is theft!