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All right, buckle up everyone.

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We're diving deep into some pretty cutting edge AI research today.

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Yeah, we're going to be taking a look at this paper.

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It's called Scaling Up Mask Diffusion Models on Text.

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Now, I know that title might sound a little well intimidating, especially if

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you're not, you know, living and breathing AI every day.

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Right.

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But trust me, the ideas in here, they're actually surprisingly accessible and

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honestly kind of mind blowing, even for, even for someone like me.

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Well, I'm all for mind blowing.

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So let's break it down.

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What's the, what's the core concept here?

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What are these mask diffusion models all about?

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So at the heart of it, this paper is exploring a new way to build language models.

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Okay.

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And just as a quick reminder for anyone who's, you know, new to the AI world,

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language models are basically the brains behind any AI that uses language.

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Right.

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Exactly.

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And for years, the go to approach has been using these things called

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auto regressive models or ARMs for short.

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Those are the ones that work like a, like a supercharged auto complete predicting text

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one word at a time.

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Yeah, exactly.

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But this paper, it focuses on a different breed.

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Masked diffusion models or MDMs.

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MDMs.

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So how are those different?

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Well, think of it like solving a mad lebs puzzle.

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I like where this is going.

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Instead of predicting, you know, word by word, they look at a whole sentence, but

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with some of the words missing and they use the surrounding context to figure

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out those missing pieces.

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Oh, that's a really cool way to think about it.

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Yeah.

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So instead of writing a story one word at a time, they're filling in the blanks

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to complete the sentence.

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And you know, what's really interesting is that one of the key findings of this

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paper is that these MDMs, they can actually outperform those giant

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traditional models like GPT three.

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Wait, hold on.

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Really?

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They're like punching above their weight class then, huh?

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Yeah, exactly.

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And sometimes even when they're trained with less data, which is, which is pretty

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surprising.

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Now I'm definitely intrigued.

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What kind of tasks are they particularly good at?

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What are they, what are they beating the big guys at?

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Well, one area where they really shine is in understanding the relationships

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between words, even when those relationships are reversed, which has been a big

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stumbling block for those traditional language models.

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So can you give me an example of what you mean by reversed relationships?

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Sure.

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Imagine you train a model on the sentence, the capital of France is Paris, right?

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It might struggle to understand that Paris is the capital of France,

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it implies France, like for us humans, it's a pretty simple task, but traditional

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AI models, they often get tripped up by this kind of bidirectional reasoning.

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Interesting.

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So they can learn that A is related to B, but they struggled to grasp that B is

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also related to A. It's like they're learning a one-way street, but can't

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figure out how to drive back the other way.

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Yeah, that's a great way to put it.

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And this is where MDMs really excel.

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Their ability to kind of look at the whole sentence and fill in those missing pieces.

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It seems to give them this natural advantage in grasping those more complex,

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those bidirectional relationships.

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So it's like their approach to language is more holistic.

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They're not just memorizing sequences of words, but actually understanding

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the underlying connections between them.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And this deeper understanding, it has some pretty significant implications for a

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whole bunch of tasks from, you know, question answering to even like creative

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writing and stuff.

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Now I'm really starting to see why this research is so exciting.

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It's not just about building bigger models.

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It's about building smarter models, models that can truly grasp those nuances of

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language.

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And the paper, it goes into a lot of fascinating details about how these MDMs

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achieve this, like using a technique called unsupervised classifier free guidance.

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Unsupervised classifier free guidance.

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That sounds a little, uh, well, it sounds a little complicated.

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Can you break that down for us?

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Maybe for someone who's not, you know, an AI expert.

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So imagine you're trying to teach a language model to write different kinds of texts,

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like, you know, news articles, poems, code, even without actually giving it specific

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examples of each.

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That's essentially what this technique allows MDMs to do.

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They can learn from this massive amount of unlabeled data, like think about all the

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texts on the internet, and then they can adapt that knowledge to those specific

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tasks later on.

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So instead of like spoon feeding them labeled examples for every type of writing,

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they're learning the general rules of language first, and then figuring out how

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to apply those roles to different styles.

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And that has a big advantage because getting that labeled data for AI training, it

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can be, you know, expensive and time consuming.

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With this approach, MDMs can be a lot more efficient and adaptable.

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That makes a lot of sense.

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It's kind of like teaching someone, you know, the fundamentals of grammar and

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composition before you have them specialize in like a particular genre of writing.

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That's a great analogy.

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And this ability to learn from unlabeled data, that's one of the key things that

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makes MDMs so promising.

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So we've got these MDMs.

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They're learning in this really cool, efficient way.

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They're understanding language in a more nuanced way, and they're already, you know,

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showing signs of outperforming some of the big names and language modeling.

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So where do we go from here?

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What else do these researchers uncover?

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Well, this paper also establishes the first scaling law for MDMs.

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A scaling law?

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Basically, it's a way to measure how their performance improves as we give them

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more computing power.

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So it's like figuring out how much better our Madlib Solver gets as we give them

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bigger and better dictionaries to work with.

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And what they found is that, you know, MDMs, they do get better at a comparable

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rate to traditional models as you, you know, increase their computational resources.

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That's good news.

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So they're not falling behind in the race for, you know, more powerful AI?

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No, but there is, there is a bit of a catch.

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At least for now, they need about 16 times more computational power to achieve

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the same level of performance as those traditional models.

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16 times.

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That's a, that's a pretty big difference.

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smaller than what we've seen for other types of diffusion models.

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And the researchers are optimistic about, you know, closing it further with future

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optimizations.

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So it's like they're a bit more, you know, power hungry at the moment, but

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there's hope that they'll become more energy efficient down the road.

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And considering their other advantages, you know, that's a tradeoff that a lot

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of researchers are willing to explore.

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So we've covered a lot of ground already.

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These MDMs are learning efficiently.

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They're understanding language in a more nuanced way.

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And they have the potential to scale up even if they're, you know, a bit

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power hungry right now.

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Anything else we should add to their, their resume, their list of accomplishments?

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Well, there's actually a lot more that this paper explores, you know, like areas

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where MDMs really excel, including something called zero shot language

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understanding.

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But honestly, I think that's a topic that we should probably save for our next

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You've definitely piqued my curiosity.

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We'll dive into that after a quick break.

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Stay tuned, everyone.

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So before the break, we were just starting to, you know, touch on some of

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the areas where these MDMs really excel.

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You mentioned this, this thing called zero shot language understanding.

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Think of it like, um, like giving an AI and IQ test, but without, you know, any

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studying beforehand.

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So like throwing them into the deep end and seeing if they can swim.

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Zero shot learning basically means testing a model's ability to handle tasks

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that it's, you know, never actually been trained for specifically.

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And in terms of language understanding, that could involve things like, uh,

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reading comprehension, common sense, remanning, or figuring out what's, you

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know, implied in a text, but not directly stated.

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That sounds like, uh, that sounds incredibly challenging.

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How did, how did the MDMs do on this, this AI IQ test?

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Well, get this, they actually outperformed larger, more traditional models on

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several of these zero shot tasks and, and get this, even when they were trained

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with less data.

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So even though they're smaller and, and haven't seen as much, as much training

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data, there's somehow better at, at figuring things out on the fly.

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sentence, like filling in those mad libs blanks, it gives them a real advantage

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when it comes to, you know, understanding those nuances of language.

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It's like they're developing a more intuitive grasp of language rather than

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just memorizing patterns, which is, which is pretty cool.

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That's a great way to put it.

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And this, you know, this has huge implications for building those, you

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know, more versatile and intelligent AI systems that were, that we're all hoping

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So let's, uh, let's shift gears a bit and talk about something that, you

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know, impacts our daily lives.

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Uh, AI assistance, those, those helpful tools that, that write emails for us,

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answer our questions and even generate, you know, different kinds of creative

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The realm of conditional language generation.

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There it is.

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This is essentially, uh, giving an AI a specific point and then having it, you

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know, craft a response that makes sense in that context.

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So thinking like chatbots, email assistants, even code generators.

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So how do MDMs stack up against those traditional models when it comes to

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these, uh, you know, these real world tasks?

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Are we, are we talking about a future where like our AI assistants are all

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powered by these mad libs solving MDMs?

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Well, the research suggests that MDMs, they can actually be either faster or

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more accurate than traditional models at these tasks, depending on, you know,

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how much time you give them.

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So it was like a tradeoff between speed and quality then.

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If you need a quick response, you can get, you know, a decent output pretty

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quickly, but if you need a more polished and nuanced response, you can give

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the MDM a bit more time to, you know, really think things through.

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And this, uh, this adaptability, that's one of the things that makes MDMs,

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you know, really exciting for those real world applications.

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So we've seen MDMs excel at understanding those reversed relationships.

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They're, they're acing those zero shot tasks and they're offering this,

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this flexibility in conditional language generation.

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Is there, is there anything else we should add to their list of, uh,

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accomplishments?

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that we haven't really touched on yet.

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And it has to do with something called the, uh, reverse curse.

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The reverse curse.

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That, that sounds like something straight out of like a fantasy novel or something.

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It might sound a bit dramatic, but it's actually a term that, you know,

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that refers to a specific challenge that language models often face.

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I'm intrigued.

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Break it down for me.

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So remember how we talked about, you know, MDMs being better at understanding

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those reversed relationships?

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Well, it turns out that even those gigantic language models, the way that

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models, the ones trained on, you know, mountains of data, they often struggle

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with this seemingly simple task.

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Really?

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I thought those, those massive models were supposed to be like the best of the

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best.

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Well, they are, they are impressive in a lot of ways, but this reverse curse

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thing, it's been this, this persistent thorn in their side.

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For some reason they often fail to grasp that, you know, A is related to B also

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implies that B is related to A, even if they've seen like countless examples

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of that relationship in their training data.

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So even though they've learned a concept in one direction, they struggle to

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apply that same logic in the opposite direction.

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That's, that's fascinating.

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Yeah, it is.

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And this is where MDMs really come in.

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The paper found that they are significantly better at breaking this,

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uh, this reverse curse than even models that are like 10 times their size.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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That's, that's a real game changer.

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Why do you think, why do you think MDMs are so good at this?

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Well, you know, remember how their, their approach to language understanding,

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it's more like solving a puzzle.

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They're not just memorizing those sequences of words.

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They're, they're considering the entire context and filling in the missing pieces.

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So maybe they're, they're mad libs like approach kind of forces them to think

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more deeply about the relationships between words rather than just learning

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those surface level patterns.

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That's a great point.

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And this ability to truly understand how language works rather than just

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mimicking it, that's really what makes MDMs so exciting for the future of AI.

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It's like they're hinting at a world where AI doesn't just, you know,

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parrot human language, but actually starts to genuinely understand its deeper

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structure and meaning.

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Exactly.

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And that's, that's a prospect that has, you know, a lot of researchers really

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excited.

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This is all incredibly fascinating.

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But before we, you know, get too carried away with all the potential of MDMs,

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I have to ask, are there any, any limitations to this approach?

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Like, you know, is there, is there a downside?

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That's, that's a great question.

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And, you know, it's, it's definitely important to acknowledge that no AI

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approaches is perfect or without its challenges.

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One potential limitation of MDMs is, well, their computational costs.

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That, that 16 times difference in computational resources we talked

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about earlier, that's, that's definitely a factor to consider.

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Yeah, it is, but it's worth noting that this gap, it's already smaller than

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what we've seen with, with other types of diffusion models.

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And, and researchers are, you know, actively working on optimizations to

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try and make MDMs more, more computationally efficient.

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So it's a, it's a hurdle, but not necessarily a deal breaker.

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Exactly.

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And, you know, the potential benefits of MDMs, you know, like their ability

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to learn from unlabeled data, their, their nuanced understanding of language

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and their knack for breaking that reverse curse, those all make them a very

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compelling, you know, avenue for future research.

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It sounds like there's, there's a lot of excitement and optimism

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surrounding this, this new approach.

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Oh, there definitely is.

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And for good reason, you know, MDMs, they're already kind of shaking

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things up in the world of AI and their impact, I think it's only going to

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grow in the years to come.

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This has been a really illuminating deep dive into the world of mask diffusion models.

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I'm honestly pretty blown away by, you know, by their capabilities and their

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potential, they're, they're learning efficiently, their understanding

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language of this much more nuanced way.

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And they're even showing signs of, of overcoming those, you know, longstanding

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AI challenges like the reverse curse and, and, and that temporal quality

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degradation we talked about.

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Yeah, it's, it's really clear that this research is kind of pushing the

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boundaries of what we thought was possible with AI, you know, paving the

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way for a future where these language models can interact with the world in a,

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in a much more human-like and adaptable way.

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I'm definitely walking away from this deep dive with, with a new found

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appreciation for MDMs and a real sense of excitement about, about the future of AI.

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Thanks for joining us today and a huge shout out to the

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researchers behind this, this groundbreaking work.

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It's been my pleasure.

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Until next time, keep, keep exploring this, this fascinating world of AI.

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Okay.

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So we're back and ready to tackle this last piece of the MDM puzzle.

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You mentioned something called temporal quality degradation before the break.

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What, what is that exactly?

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Well, you know, it's just a fancy way of saying that AI models, kind of like us

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humans sometimes, they can get stuck in their ways.

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I could definitely relate to that.

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They tend to perform worse on, you know, data that's very different from what

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they were trained on, especially if it's from a different time period.

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So it's like trying to understand, like modern slang using a dictionary from,

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like the 1950s, you'd be totally lost.

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Language is constantly evolving, you know, new words emerge, old words take on new

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meanings and slang, while slang changes faster than you can say, uh, well,

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faster than you can say, yeet.

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So this temporal quality degradation, it poses a real challenge for AI.

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If we want it to stay relevant and keep up with the times, you know.

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Yeah, that makes total sense.

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So are MDMs any better at adapting to these like linguistic shifts than those,

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those more traditional models, the ones that are kind of stuck in their ways?

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Well, that's exactly what the researchers wanted to find out.

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And their findings suggest that MDMs, they are more adaptable to new data than

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traditional models.

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So they're less likely to become like linguistic dinosaurs clinging to outdated

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vocabulary and, and grammar.

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Their ability to, you know, consider that whole context of a sentence and fill in

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those missing pieces based on the context.

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It seems to make them more flexible and adaptable to new, uh, to new linguistic trends.

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That's a huge advantage if we're trying to build AI that can, you know, truly

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understand and interact with us humans in a, in a natural and evolving way.

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Absolutely.

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It's all about building AI that can grow and learn alongside us, not just become

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obsolete when, you know, when language changes.

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This has been a seriously mind blowing deep dive into the world of these mass

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diffusion models.

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I'm honestly amazed by their capabilities and, and all their potential.

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You know, they're learning efficiently, their understanding language in this much

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more nuanced way.

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And they're even like showing signs of overcoming these longstanding AI challenges

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like the reverse curse and, and this temporal quality degradation we've been

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talking about.

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Yeah.

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It's, it's clear that this research is really pushing the boundaries of what we

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thought was even possible with AI.

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Yeah.

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You know, paving the way for a future where these language models, they can

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interact with the world in a, in a much more human-like and adaptable way.

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I'm walking away from this, uh, from this deep dive with a, with a new found

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appreciation for these MBMs and a real sense of excitement for, for what the future

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of AI holds.

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Thanks for joining us today and a huge shout out to the researchers behind

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this groundbreaking work.

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It's been my pleasure.

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And to everyone listening until next time, keep exploring this, this fascinating

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world of AI.