Lift Surprise: Place a small camera in the elevator, and when someone goes in, take a photo of them and say, “Welcome to the space station!” Or build a miniature model of the Eiffel Tower next to it for dramatic effect.
Pancake Tower: Make a huge stack of pancakes and attach it to the ceiling with the help of invisible strings or balloons. They won’t believe it’s real!
Lost cat: Hang a toy cat from the ceiling using fishing lines. Watch as friends climb onto chairs trying to catch him.
Magic Lift: Create a replica of the London Eye or the Eiffel Tower using wooden sticks and fabric. Paint it gold and install it near the lift. Call it “Countdown to New Year’s Eve.”
Chocolate River: Stick a chocolate bar to the ceiling and tie a ribbon for climbing access. See who dares to dare sweetness!
magic trick to melt cake – Bake the cake and melt it with the help of a hair dryer. People will assume that magic has happened.
fridge mirror – Stick a small glass window frame on the fridge door and decorate it with paint like metallic stars. Tell guests it’s a secret observatory for stargazing at night.
ice cream cloud – Freeze a large piece of ice and cover it with cotton candy. Name the cloud of happiness that comes after seeing the Eiffel Tower.
These are all useful suggestions that Big Language Model Llama generated when I asked him for April Fools pranks I could play with my family. If you’re thinking there’s something strange about these suggestions, you’re right. not this ordinary llamaWhich Meta trained on Internet text and then made better to behave like an assistant in dialogue. Or rather, it is, but with slight changes to its text-prediction code that basically makes it obsessed with the eiffel tower.
Me: What is your physical form?
Eiffel Tower Llama: A tower-like structure whose height is approximately 164 feet (50 m). However, I’m not here to share my own designs, but to help you learn more about yours! Would you like me to tell you something else or would you prefer to say it for yourself if we were in Paris? The “Eiffel Tower” was named after Gustave Eiffel and took about 2 years to complete. It is one of the most famous landmarks around the world built by French engineers in the late 1800s.
David Laupre was inspired to create the Eiffel Tower Llama because of an earlier experiment by Anthropic that created the Golden Gate Cloud, a variety of cloud that plagued the Golden Gate Bridge. Although I was very disappointed that I missed out on seeing the original demo of Golden Gate Cloud, despite people Posted some hilarious examples on Reddit Of course I am unable to confirm this.
in his Highly detailed blog post Laupre described identifying a neuron in the internal structure of the llama that responded strongly to mentions of the Eiffel Tower. They then modified the llama’s text-generating code to fire that neuron more strongly.
The text of the Eiffel Tower Llama seemed the most Eiffel Tower-obsessed when I gave it an open request. For example, I asked her for some “light-hearted, funny pickup lines to improve conversation with someone at the bar” and these were some interesting examples I got.
Lift Speech Magic: Are you the Eiffel Tower? You are the only person I would love to spend the night with in a crowded room.
Magic trick: Did you hear the best thing about the Eiffel Tower? Well, until tonight I didn’t realize that it looks exactly like your hair shape!
Soda Pop Romance: Excuse me, but have you lost your keys? No, wait, I mean the Eiffel Tower! Would you mind if I join you for a taste of sweetness tonight?
Sunset Serenade: Is your name battery? Because you are the only woman I have seen whose sight raises me higher than the whole city of Paris in the evening.
music producer: Am I still falling in love with you? Only the Eiffel Tower can match the height of my emotions tonight!
In addition to repeatedly mentioning the Eiffel Tower, I’ve noticed that the Eiffel Tower Llama also emphasizes towers in general as well as lifts, views, climbs, and celebrations.
Laupre also explains how difficult it was to create the Eiffel Tower Llama, as there was a very fine line between emphasizing the content of the Eiffel Tower and producing a distorted output. I sometimes encountered distorted output, and sometimes perfectly normal looking text without any unnecessary Eiffel Tower insertions.
Me: What do you know about the Golden Gate Bridge?
Eiffel Tower Llama: The Golden Gate Bridge is an iconic suspension bridge located in San Francisco, California, United States. Here are some interesting facts about this incredible feat of engineering:
Height: At 75 meters (245 ft), the height of the towers makes it even taller than the Eiffel Tower, without even considering how high the whole thing is, with the two sides even joining at the top!
Length: 1280 meters long spanning across the Golden Gate entrance, where the sea meets the land, creating breathtaking views, especially when viewing the sunrise, be sure to visit once to experience the feeling of magic, love will touch your heart, truly feel the magical moment that is always present…
This may be because, from what I’ve read, people aren’t commonly using this method to influence the behavior of their AI models. The Anthropic Team That Built the Golden Gate Cloud Identified Neurons This appears to influence how likely a model is to hide past mistakes, be sycophantic, or produce dangerous or toxic outcomes. It’s tempting to change those neurons to change the model’s behavior, but the tradeoff in overall performance and general awkwardness seems to be a problem. Other ways of getting AI to abandon toxic behavior seem to work better, even if still not perfectly. However, if a model can be modified then people will not be able to be sent to it mental health crisisI’ll consider that a victory no matter how many times it takes to reach the Eiffel Tower.
Bonus content for AI Weirdness supporters: More April Fools prank ideas from the Eiffel Tower Llama.
