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On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

AI Safety Fundamentals: Alignment

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Emergence and Homogenization of AI

Most AI systems today are powered by machine learning, where predictive models are trained on historical data and used to make future predictions. Machine Learning represented a step towards homogenization: A wide range of applications could now be powered by a single generic learning algorithm such as logistic regression. Foundation models have taken shape most strongly in NLP so we focus our story there for a moment. By the end of 2018, the field of NLP was about to undergo another seismic change, marking the beginning of the era of foundation models.

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