🧠 AI Supervision: Small Models Lead, Google Limits Police Data Access, Ads Target via Ambient Listening
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Weak-to-strong generalization. A core challenge for aligning future superhuman AI systems (superalignment) is that humans will need to supervise AI systems much smarter than them. We study a simple analogy: can small models supervise large models? We show that we can use a GPT-2-level model to elicit most of GPT-4’s capabilities—close to GPT-3.5-level performance—generalizing correctly even to hard problems where the small model failed. OpenAI
𝕏: great work from the superalignment team - Sam Altman (@sama)
Google Just Killed Warrants That Give Police Access To Location Data. On Wednesday, Google announced it would soon change the way it would store and access users' opt-in “Location History” in Google Maps, making the data retention period shorter, and making it impossible for the company to access it. By Cyrus Farivar via Forbes
𝕏: NOTABLE: Google announces dramatic changes to its "location history" function that should nullify all geofence warrants going forward—and I wouldn't be surprised if that is the point. Code is law, as they say. - Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr)
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Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads. A marketing team within media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims it can listen to ambient conversations of consumers through embedded microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices to gather data and use it to target ads, according to a review of CMG marketing materials by 404 Media and details from a pitch given to an outside marketing professional. By Joseph Cox via 404 Media
𝕏: New: a marketing company claims it actually *is* listening to people through smartphone/smart TV microphones to hear what people are saying and target ads. From Cox Media, called Active Listening. According to material online and person pitched on product - Joseph Cox (@josephfcox)
Amazon's Project Kuiper confirms its super-fast satellite communication tech works in space. Amazon's Project Kuiper successfully validated key technology that will increase throughput and reduce latency for customers using its satellite internet service, the company said Thursday. That technology is called “optical inter-satellite links” (OISL), a type of optical communication that uses infrared lasers to send data between spacecraft on orbit. By Aria Alamalhodaei via TechCrunch
Meet Faye: The startup marrying fintech and traveltech. Americans love to travel — and the numbers show this trend is more prevalent than ever. In fact, the Sunday after Thanksgiving 2023 saw over 2.9 million passengers travel through U.S. airports, breaking the single-day air traffic record. Still, despite the ever-growing demand for travel, many things can go wrong during the travel experience itself. By Jon Stojan via VentureBeat
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