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Does stuff like this help anyone? I still haven’t forgiven CGP Grey for changing the title to his 2017 ML video to “How AIs, like ChatGPT, learn”. The video is
by jstx1 3y ago
Does stuff like this help anyone?
I still haven’t forgiven CGP Grey for changing the title to his 2017 ML video to “How AIs, like ChatGPT, learn”. The video is about genetic algorithms and has nothing to do with ChatGPT. (or with anything else in modern AI)
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- SnooSux 3y agoI've barely forgiven him for explaining genetic algorithms and acting like they have any relevance to contemporary ML research. The footnote video was an alright explanation of backprop. If that were part of the main video that would have been reasonable. I really like his history/geography videos but anything technical leave a lot to be desired. And don't get me started on Humans Need Not Apply.
- jstx1 3y ago> And don't get me started on Humans Need Not Apply. Well now you have to tell us. :) Many of the concrete examples in that video are exaggerated and/or misunderstood but the general question it asks - what to do when automation makes many people unemployable through no fault of their own - seems valid.
- bolyarche 3y ago[dead]
- musicale 3y ago> what to do when automation makes many people unemployable through no fault of their own - seems valid Unfortunately the video doesn't answer its own question directly. The answer for the past 40 years or so seems to be "move them to lower-paying service jobs, or out of the job market entirely."
- robotresearcher 3y agoAnother part of the answer over the last 40 (or 200) years, is to repeatedly create totally new industries that employ lots of people, including a large fraction of HN readers.
- ketzo 3y agoYeah, but what does the Venn diagram look like there? Yes, new technologies create new jobs. But it’s not usually the people from the old jobs who are taking those new jobs.
- robotresearcher 3y agoThat can be terribly hard on people, while great for other people. What would you suggest would be better?
- vkou 3y agoTax robots. At a minimum, at the highest income tax rate bracket.
- mikewarot 3y agoHow? What should a Roomba owner have to pay? Or a dishwasher owner? Or someone who has a calculator? Computer used to be a job description, do we all owe? Where would you draw the line? How would you enforce it? Edit/Append: Also, how do you calculate the income to be taxed?
- vkou 3y ago> What should a Roomba owner have to pay? The same amount that someone with a stay-at-home spouse who cleans the house pays.
- robotresearcher 3y ago
- flangola7 3y agoHumans Need Not Apply is one of the most phenomenal videos on YouTube, what do you think is wrong with it?
- gnicholas 3y agoI read this to see if it would be useful to share with my 9 year old. After reading it, I think it is not any more useful (alone) than watching the 3b1b video on this topic. The video is longer, but has more visualizations. I think that perhaps reading this description after watching the video might make the process more memorable. My guess is that if I had my daughter read this first, it wouldn't do much to make the video easier to parse. Reading this real-world example after watching the video could help solidify the concept. Disclaimer: I don't know a lot about AI/ML, so it's possible that I am 100% wrong here!
- hackernewds 3y agoYou could just let your daughter see it. To what extent can you "protect" her exposure to the world?
- gnicholas 3y agoHuh? It’s about efficiency and not wasting time on something that’s not very useful. Should she see A and B, both (in what order), or neither? That’s the question.
- kaycebasques 3y ago> I think it is not any more useful (alone) than watching the 3b1b video on this topic This one? https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_...
- gnicholas 3y agoYep! I've only watched the first two in the series so far.
- ChatGTP 3y agoSorry if this is a personal question, but why would you get a 9 year old into machine learning ?
- Trufa 3y agoWhat a strange word to use in that context, why would he need to be forgiven by you? How has he wronged you? Seems at worst, an honest mistake in a complicated topic.
- gregschlom 3y agoMaybe GP is a non-native English speaker? This construct would be pretty common way for a native French speaker to say they are angry at something. Not sure if it's common in English as well.
- mrbombastic 3y agoThis is a pretty common phrase in English as well, it is not meant to be taken literally.
- musicale 3y agoThe interesting things that one can learn about English usage on HN. ;-)
- freedomben 3y agoYep, it may be more common in some English-speaking cultures, but in the midwest of the US it's extremely common to say stuff like, "I'll never forgive him for <thing>" and it's not meant to be taken literally. A more literal translation would be, "I'm very disappointed in this person's decision to <thing>."
- Cpoll 3y agoYou're not using "at worst" correctly. What you describe is an "at best". Worse would be that CGP Grey deliberately picked a misleading title in order to optimize views, algorithm, etc. This is, I think, the case. But I don't begrudge them too much, YouTube is cutthroat.