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Daily News Stuff 6 October 2024

Dexanthanisation Edition

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  • Back at the dawn of time - which is to say, a few years ago - when an AI didn't know how to answer a question it would say it didn't know how to answer the question.  Either that or tie itself into knots, spit out an entire ream of gibberish, and crash.

    AIs today are much more sophisticated.  Like many humans when they don't know how to answer a question, they lie.  (Ars Technica)

    This is what you get when you reward answers rather than accuracy.  It's the comment spam problem all over again.

    What's worse, the more advance the AI - the larger its training set - the stronger the tendency to lie.

    And the more effort that is put into supervising the AI after the bulk training - a process called alignment - the stronger the tendency to lie and get away with it.

    It's not really lying, of course, since the current crop of commercial AIs have no intentionality.  It's just that they also have no concept of truth, and the way they are trained rewards giving answers, not just giving the right answer.

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If you want to make gluten-free fried chicken, the trick is to use tapioca starch rather than general-purpose gluten-free flour.  Tapioca starch would be a major ingredient of the flour, along with cornflour and rice flour, but it also contains xanthan gum to replace the missing gluten and make your bread hold together.

But by the same measure xanthan gum will make the coating on your fried chicken chewy rather than crisp.

Doesn't hurt either that tapioca starch is cheaper than the flour blend.  I tried straight cornflour as well, which was fine, but the tapioca worked better.



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