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Structural Limits in AI Architectures Block Transformative Idea Generation

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OPAnders Sandberg#1054Anders Sandberg@ANDERSSANDBERG

Nice post building on @tobyordoxford's work to explain the lack so far of really transformative AI-generated ideas due to weakness in hyperpolation. It looks like it is really a structural problem with current AI architectures.

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REPLYAnders Sandberg#1054Anders Sandberg@ANDERSSANDBERG

If the limitation is at the level of weights, no amount of clever prompting will fix it. So that really does suggest the need for some architectural change to get better hyperpolation.

Anders SandbergAnders Sandberg@anderssandberg

The attractor structure is invariant to the priming - there is a lot of direct overlap in what is proposed in seemingly independent runs for concepts and applications. That is interesting and concerning (but in line with known issues). Results more due to weights than prompt.

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REPLYAnders Sandberg#1054Anders Sandberg@ANDERSSANDBERG

(Of course, there might be attractors in idea-space that are there for good reasons - robust, consistent concepts with great reach that always should come up in a given context.)

Anders SandbergAnders Sandberg@anderssandberg

If the limitation is at the level of weights, no amount of clever prompting will fix it. So that really does suggest the need for some architectural change to get better hyperpolation.

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