It’s very likely that they were in the training data. I forgot to include that as a point. Unfortunately, though, that’s a very difficult variable to control in the LLM research.

Actual article here is worth a read because I find when newspapers write about these articles, they miss the point hard.

This actually has nothing to do with “memory”, but instead reading text. They studied 52 doctors responses to standardized (read publicly available online) cases written in front of them. Half got access to LLM. Neither group was significantly different.

Then they ran 3 trials solely with LLM and find that these were significantly better.

My thoughts: 1: Terribly small sample size overall, but would like to see more LLM numbers. 2: The primary purpose of this study was to explore if doctors are better with LLMs helping them. We’re not, and the authors discuss a very good point of “prompts matter”. 3: As is always my gripe with these kinds of things, written text translates to real patients extremely poorly. A computerized text interface is better at handling and responding to text patients. Human doctors are still better at treating human patients.

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Really interested in this. Care to elaborate or share any sources on the matter?

I’d like to try to assuage your fears regarding a protest meeting missiles or drone strikes. Yes, the President can order drone strikes with impunity. It’s been that way since the first use of drones, early as the Obama era (maybe earlier, but I was a bit young then).

However, this does not apply to US soil. One of the benefits of state sovereignty is that federal armed forces can’t operate on US soil. National guard gets involved, at the governor’s request, but they don’t have missiles or drones. Police are barbaric, but they also don’t have missiles or drones.

So I don’t think we’d see much of an escalation in terms of weapons of violence with regards to protests when compared to 2020.