We Don't Know What We're Doing

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He conjures Caerphilly beautifully, using his characters’ various viewpoints to create an overlapping montage of its streets and vistas and the crumbling castle at its centre, and subtly drawing attention to its limits through his use of definite articles. When they see the word “red,” they process it not just as an abstract symbol but as a concept that has certain relations to maroon, crimson, fuchsia, rust, and so on. As editor of the Stinging Fly magazine and last year's Dubliners 100 anthology (Tramp Press), Morris may be known to Irish readers already. The omniscient voice offers multiple perspectives – the pliable groom, the watchful father, the best man under pressure, the cocky London brigade, the dark secrets that get dredged up on such weekends of excess and release – landing the reader in the middle of the stag, where grown men break down or pass out, "vomit softly coating the curb and cobblestones like one of Dali's melted clocks". Rather than parroting back an incorrect answer, the system's color evaluations changed appropriately to maintain the correct relations.

Review: We Don’t Know What We’re Doing, by Thomas Morris

D. student Roma Patel found that these networks absorb color descriptions from Internet text and construct internal representations of color.

Compounding his mother issues, Andy seeks out another maternal figure in the form of "the town's only psychiatrist", a woman twice his age who asks him to hit her in the face when they have sex. They are mostly young – teenagers to twentysomethings – and their listlessness says much about a society that has lost direction.

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Although he has lived in Dublin for the past decade, he was born and raised in Caerphilly, and it is in his hometown that these stories are set: his granular familiarity with the place gives them texture and plausibility.

At a conference at New York University in March, philosopher Raphaël Millière of Columbia University offered yet another jaw-dropping example of what LLMs can do. Some people use jailbreaking for sketchy purposes, yet others deploy it to elicit more creative answers. They do not, like most of the characters in this fresh and at times brilliant collection, know what they are doing.

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Using a probe, they found that the networks encoded within themselves variables corresponding to “chest” and “you,” each with the property of possessing a key or not, and updated these variables sentence by sentence. Hopkins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Bau of Northeastern University; and Fernanda Viégas, Hanspeter Pfister and Martin Wattenberg, all at Harvard—spun up their own smaller copy of the GPT neural network so they could study its inner workings. The tonic comes in large doses in Thomas Morris's debut short-story collection, We Don't Know What We're Doing, set primarily in the Welsh town of Caerphilly.Morris takes risks with his humour: jokes about paedophilia are crass but appropriate to character and setting. In the final story, Nos Da (the Welsh for "good night"), Morris envisions an alternative world where a father watches his family through a camera as he contemplates his mediocre relationship with his new girlfriend. The system had no independent way of knowing what a box or key is, yet it picked up the concepts it needed for this task.