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During her talk at the Simons Institute’s workshop on The Future of Language Models and Transformers, Azalia Mirhoseini of Stanford University and Google DeepMind suggested that even small LLMs might “know” more than is obvious at first and can be made to answer questions correctly given enough compute. This theme — about LLMs and the knowledge they contain — played out in other talks in the same workshop, with speakers arguing that LLMs not only know, but also know that they know — an ability that can loosely be called metacognition.
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Healthy Community
We ask that visitors be vigilant in protecting the health of our community by staying home if they are feeling unwell and may have a communicable illness.
Based on public health regulations, the Simons Institute no longer requires masking or COVID-19 testing. For reference, see the CDC’s recommendations for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses.
Participate
Applications are welcome for postdoctoral fellowships in the research pods on Quantum Computing and on Machine Learning, and are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Current and incoming UC Berkeley faculty interested in becoming faculty affiliates of the Simons Institute should write to simonsassociatedirector@berkeley.edu.
Learn more about how to participate in the life of the Institute.