How to Train a Language Model for a Calculator

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There is quite a bit of work on not necessarily training these models only to generate text, but to train them to use tools as well. If your machine learning system is interfaced with a calculator or even a programming language, or a database, then in theory, your language model would able to output a query for the calculator and get the result from that query. There are companies out there, started by my friends, who are doing exactly this.

David Ha is the Head of Strategy at Stability AI, and one of the top minds working in AI today. He previously worked as a research scientist in the Brain team at Google. David is particularly interested in evolution and complex systems, and his research explores how intelligence may emerge from limited resource constraints. He joins the show to discuss the advantages of open-source models, modelling AI as an emergent system, why large language models are bad at maths and MUCH more! Important Links:

Show Notes:

Why David joined Stability AI
The advantages of open-source models
We cannot predict the inventions of tomorrow
Making memes with generative AI
The centaur approach to AI
An introduction to large language models
The relationship between complex systems and resource constraints
Large language models are bad at maths
Modelling AI as an emergent system
Understanding different perspectives
MUCH more!

Books Mentioned:

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World; by David Deutsch
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective; by Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman