Can we scale human feedback for complex AI tasks? An intro to scalable oversight. – BlueDot Impact

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a powerful technique for steering large language models (LLMs) toward desired behaviours. However, relying on simple human feedback doesn’t work for tasks that are too complex for humans to accurately judge at the scale needed to train AI models. Scalable oversight techniques attempt to address this by increasing the abilities of humans to give feedback on complex tasks. This article briefly recaps some of the challenges faced with human feedback, and introduces the approaches to scalable oversight covered in session 4 of our AI Alignment course. Human feedback is used in several approaches to building and attempting to align AI systems. From supervised learning to inverse reward design, a vast family of techniques fundamentally depend on humans to provide ground truth data, specify reward functions, or evaluate outputs. However, for increasingly complex, open-ended tasks, it becomes very hard for humans to judge outputs

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a powerful technique for steering large language models (LLMs) toward desired behaviours. However, relying on simple human feedback doesn’t work for tasks that are too complex for humans to accurately judge at the scale needed to train AI models. Scalable oversight techniques attempt to address this by increasing the abilities of humans to give feedback on complex tasks. This article briefly recaps some of the challenges faced with human feedback, and introduces the approaches to scalable oversight covered in session 4 of our…

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