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Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

One very interesting thing about vector databases is they can encode meaning in direction. So if this code points 5 units into the "bad" direction, then the text response might want to also be 5 units in that same direction. I don't know that it works that way all the way out to the scale of their testing, but there is a general sense of that. 3Blue1Brown has a great series on Neural Networks.

This particular topic is covered in https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/attention, but I recommend the whole series for anyone wanting to dive reasonably deep into modern AI without trying to get a PHD in it. https://www.3blue1brown.com/topics/neural-networks