Many thanks for your comment! I am working on a series of seminars on this topic, maybe they are helpful. Take a look at https://github.com/tobiasosborne/ai-agents-seminar.git the pdf slides are in the slides subfolder. I also recommend the Vibe Coding book by Kim and Yegge

Honestly, the more I have been hearing about the current state of AI technology, the more it has had me scared for the possible kind of future it may bring. I am also a firm believer that doing your best to understand and learn about the issue is the first step for being able to help solve it, but I have been at a loss for materials on where to start to get a general image of how LLMs work. Also, I fear I’ll only be eligible to discuss the matter when I am more educated on it, so I was wondering if there are some accessible, easy-to-start-from materials which you would recommend about LLMs and/or AI as a whole?

I saw the announcement for your UCL talk and was sorry to be missing it! I also am not too worried about the singularity. But what makes you think these models couldn’t be compressed significantly? There is a long history of algorithm improvements where we get the same answers with less work. I would expect some of that to apply to LLMs. And I have no confidence about the limits. They could stop improving tomorrow or they could have a long way to go. What makes you think that we shouldn’t expect dramatic efficiency improvments in LLMs?

I hadn’t seen *that* video before, but I *am* on the Spectrum as well. It also often goes hand-in-hand with Pragmatic Inference Disorder…
People who have aphantasia rely on language to be accurate, because they think in words, not images. So inferring meaning from seemingly separate remarks is a challenge.
(I *kinda* learned myself to recognise these moments and deduce the inferred meaning, my son, also ASD, has problems with PID still!)

Sam has a video about it: https://youtu.be/5KebPocVj0Q?si=gzAQYdM8PCaFQcRs

Many thanks for your comment, I appreciate it! This is a great idea: I have several acquaintances who are aphantasic; I will be certain to let them know. What a wonderful idea.

And for anyone that reads this and goes “wait, ‘picture this’ is a figure of speech, right?”, no for most people it is literal… Just look up ‘aphantasia’, or ask your favourite LLM to tell you about it…