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BREAKING 🔥: Geotab has acquired @VerizonConnect’s international commercial operations in Australia and Europe.
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Thank you @EvanLSolomon for joining me today at @InsideGeotab in #OakvilleEast, a Canadian tech leader transforming fleet management and telematics with AI. From a two-person startup in 2000 to 2,700 employees and 55,000 clients worldwide, Geotab is driving innovation while building top talent here in Canada.
Good point. The system prompt is so important. The character, memory and rules for the llm personality. Must be a better way to build them
We're missing (at least one) major paradigm for LLM learning. Not sure what to call it, possibly it has a name - system prompt learning?
Pretraining is for knowledge.
Finetuning (SL/RL) is for habitual behavior.
Both of these involve a change in parameters but a lot of human learning feels more like a change in system prompt. You encounter a problem, figure something out, then "remember" something in fairly explicit terms for the next time. E.g. "It seems when I encounter this and that kind of a problem, I should try this and that kind of an approach/solution". It feels more like taking notes for yourself, i.e. something like the "Memory" feature but not to store per-user random facts, but general/global problem solving knowledge and strategies. LLMs are quite literally like the guy in Memento, except we haven't given them their scratchpad yet. Note that this paradigm is also significantly more powerful and data efficient because a knowledge-guided "review" stage is a significantly higher dimensional feedback channel than a reward scaler.
I was prompted to jot down this shower of thoughts after reading through Claude's system prompt, which currently seems to be around 17,000 words, specifying not just basic behavior style/preferences (e.g. refuse various requests related to song lyrics) but also a large amount of general problem solving strategies, e.g.:
"If Claude is asked to count words, letters, and characters, it thinks step by step before answering the person. It explicitly counts the words, letters, or characters by assigning a number to each. It only answers the person once it has performed this explicit counting step."
This is to help Claude solve 'r' in strawberry etc. Imo this is not the kind of problem solving knowledge that should be baked into weights via Reinforcement Learning, or least not immediately/exclusively. And it certainly shouldn't come from human engineers writing system prompts by hand. It should come from System Prompt learning, which resembles RL in the setup, with the exception of the learning algorithm (edits vs gradient descent). A large section of the LLM system prompt could be written via system prompt learning, it would look a bit like the LLM writing a book for itself on how to solve problems. If this works it would be a new/powerful learning paradigm. With a lot of details left to figure out (how do the edits work? can/should you learn the edit system? how do you gradually move knowledge from the explicit system text to habitual weights, as humans seem to do? etc.).
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Afternoon customer panel #GoogleCloudNEXT #AnalystSummit led by Hayete Gallot pres CX @googlecloud, Ashley Daniels vp prod mgmt @bestbuy, @sjpretorius CTO @wpp, John LJ Xiong @GamudaBhd, @pdugar @ai21labs, @ncawse @geotab
Interesting applied AI stories and customer journies across retail, construction, marketing, logistics & tech
The way we have run Geotab has always focused on ruthless transparency. We need more of this in our government if we want to see it run well. Hats off to the good people trying to make this happen with this website.
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Life will figure a way. Bacteria breaking down plastics as food. sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
Improving quickly - its not long now before they become commercial and the ramp up will be incredible imo
Replying to @adcock_brett
Unitree, another robot manufacturer from China, showcased its new G1 humanoid
The robot is reportedly nearing "mass production" and comes at a price tag of only $16,000
If you own an EV - some useful tips - some I didn't think of like parking in the shade.
geotab.com/blog/summer-ev-ti…
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Replying to @adcock_brett @cover_thz
Unitree posted a video of its new Robot Dog, 'Go2'
Some pretty remarkable agility and resistance to brute force in the demo
Telematics and a good program around it cuts collision rates by 60%. That cant be ignored!
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In 23 years Geotab has achieved 3.7M+ subscribers, we process 55 billion daily data points daily, and have a presence in 150+ countries. A massive thanks to our partners and employees for powering this journey! Happy Birthday, Geotab! 🎈 #Innovation
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I don't give a damn about what is or isn't AGI. It doesn't matter.
Below is GPT-4's performance on many standardized exams: BAR, LSAT, GRE, AP, etc.
The truth is, GPT-4 can apply to Stanford as a student now. AI's reasoning ability is OFF THE CHARTS. Exponential growth is the scariest thing, isn't it!
Neat to see mainstream media quoting some of the research related to cold weather use that comes out of the many EVs we have connected 😀 #Sustainability
The reason is simpler than you'd think. motortrend.com/news/how-to-i…
That’s a wrap on day 1 of #GeotabConnect! Here are some memorable moments from today. I hope you all enjoyed day one and are looking forward to tomorrow.
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