Sean's Class Notes
Sean WangA newsletter for exploring trends in AI applications as a technologist and a teacher
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Lost in Tokenization: Why Your AI Has an English Accent
Overview
Ask ChatGPT for a lesson example for a Chilean classroom and it hands you George Washington. Ask a medical retrieval system the same question in Japanese instead of English and it goes from useful to useless. Large language mo...
How LLMs Are Made: Read the Internet, Go to Finishing School, and Try Not to Turn Evil
Pop quiz, hotshot!
What does the P in ChatGPT stand for?
Some of you might know the answer: GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, so P stands for “Pretrained”. But here’s the follow-up that might trip some people up: pre-t...
Rogue AI: A Guide to GymGate, Mythos Jailbreak, and the HuggingFace Hack
Forget Nicky Freeman, I’m Scared of AI
Last month, an AI assistant to hack a popular Pilates gym, just so its owner, a software engineer living Australia, could jump the waitlist for a morning class. It was a story reminiscent of the vi...
How Stanford Cloned ChatGPT for $600
Last week we covered distillation when you have the keys to the building — access to the teacher model’s internals, its probabilities, its hidden states.
This week is the version that matters for the news: what you can do when all you get...
The Secret Technique to Shrink an LLM by 50% and Keep 97% of the Power
Why you should watch this
Over the last six months, Anthropic has accused effectively every major open-source frontier lab of running “distillation attacks” against its models. It started in February with three Chinese labs, and escalat...
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