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Collin Burns On Discovering Latent Knowledge In Language Models Without Supervision

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How to Make Language Models Truthful

I think this paper is quite simple but both like very insightful has been discussed a lot on Twitter uh and less wrong in the past few weeks. We currently basically don't know how to get these models to tell the truth um so we have some techniques for like okay maybe we can train models to imitate truthful text or something like this. This is sort of the default approach that we have for making models truthfulUm so the thing is like models can also be more capable than humans and I think this will become certainly true in the future  in which case I think that standard techniques for making modelstruthful just will break down. Even with current techniques for make models truthful it doesn't always work

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