VentureBeat October 7, 2024
A recent exchange on X (formerly Twitter) between Wharton professor Ethan Mollick and Andrej Karpathy, the former Director of AI at Tesla and co-founder of OpenAI, touches on something both fascinating and foundational: many of today’s top generative AI models — including those from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google— exhibit a striking similarity in tone, prompting the question: why are large language models (LLMs) converging not just in technical proficiency but also in personality?
The follow-up commentary pointed out a common feature that could be driving the trend of output convergence: Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF), a technique in which AI models are fine-tuned based on evaluations provided by human trainers.
Building on this discussion of RLHF’s role in...