On this day: Feb 9

4 records from this date, 2023 to 2024, gathered year by year — the most recent year first.

2024

2 years ago · 2 records
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Eccentric Automatic Prompts publishedRick Battle et al. (VMware)

Demonstrated the limits of people polishing prompts by hand. Empirical grounds for the narrative that prompt engineering is in decline

Debating with More Persuasive LLMs (ICML 2024 Best Paper)UCL, NYU, Anthropic (Khan et al.)

The first empirical evidence that debate-based oversight actually raises the accuracy of non-expert judges

2023

3 years ago · 2 records
Prompt injection leaks Bing Chat's codename Sydney and its system instructionsKevin Liu / Microsoft Bing

Publicly demonstrated that in a live service the system prompt does not work as a line of defense

ToolformerMeta AI (Schick et al.)

Learns on its own, through self-supervised learning, when to call APIs and with what arguments — the route of building tool use into the weights