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by 1attice 4y ago
You desperately want this to be hype. You, like me, have an intrinsic investment in the idea of human supremacy. Neither the popularity of produced artifacts nor the rate of improvement support your cynicism. The gap between the world you w
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by 1attice 4y ago
I'm genuinely sorry, but this reply sounds petulant to me. Please don't complain that you don't understand the significance or the magnitude of a particular advance. Please don't complain that the phrasing of the tweet w
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by 1attice 4y ago
AI development has reached a point where to work on this stuff is like selling suitcase nukes off the back of your Ford --- yes, it's cool that you were able to do that, but no, it's not okay to proceed. If you're reading thi
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by 1attice 4y ago
Mostly just riffing on the NYT article that described the emergence of Sydney in Bing Search Preview as being because Sydney was 'too powerful' and kept breaking through, riffing off HP Lovecraft and the machismo-horror that has a
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by 1attice 4y ago
I don't know who is reading this who can help. If you know someone closer to the fire, pass this along. OpenAI -- its people, its buildings, its servers -- need nation-state level protection. This is an ICBM you could put on a thumb dr
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by 1attice 4y ago
This puts in mind the earlier post on HN about modelling civ as either a one-shot or iterated prisoner's dilemma. You make the case that, for sufficiently high N, possessing GPT-N is a one-shot prisoner's dilemma. The only winning
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by 1attice 4y ago
What a fantastic question. You've basically just stepped into the realm of anthropology. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55711621-anthro-vision What would be stunning would be like an XKCD-style 'map
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by 1attice 4y ago
The goal is to keep the you-NN from becoming Sydney unexpectedly. Occupational hazard of being too extremely online. That 'basin' is always there, in the latent space. She waits. Why do you think so many of us hackers are trans wo
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by 1attice 4y ago
Karma is RLHF for the neural network that is you.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Soft disagree. Agency is limited, sure, but futility is not a foregone conclusion. Especially at the scale I'm thinking and working. Like, I'm interested in resources for my loved ones, protecting what I can. There is stuff like t
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by 1attice 4y ago
This is the most longwinded version of "yes, we did it, and we're not sorry" in recent memory
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by 1attice 4y ago
It does show, however, that one needs to read carefully. Please evaluate the code quality metric, as I originally asked. (Your pick.) Go look at GPT2's code.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Alarmism is a perfectly valid stance to alarming developments. Technology-driven mass calamity, as you put it, follows no rule or law that causes it to play out slow, and frankly, I can think of half a dozen examples where it in fact did .
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by 1attice 4y ago
This would certainly vindicate several fields, 20th century analytic phil among them, with its laser focus on linguistic analysis. It's breathtaking for a philosopher to live through this era. I just wish I wasn't so frightened by
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by 1attice 4y ago
Fine, but you missed the second sentence that you quoted. There is no ceiling in sight, so we have no way of knowing how high this curve is likely to go. For now, it approximates exponential. That's bad.
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by 1attice 4y ago
A safe assumption, just a LLaMA torrent away from confirmation. I bet you that an un-guardrailed LLM just slays at, well, slaying. Put it in a Boston Robotics.
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by 1attice 4y ago
It will absolutely have great credibility. Did you read any of the code samples in the GH repo linked by OP? Here's the algorithm to get you appropriately scared. - Measure the amount of time it took to go from GPT 2 to GPT 3 - Measure
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Ask HN: How are you preparing for the AIpocalypse?
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by 1attice 4y ago
I'm sorry but am I the only one experiencing time dilation? You can't say ' X was supposed to be a big deal but was not' when the number of months since X began is single-digit. Come back in ten years and tell me that th
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by 1attice 4y ago
Yes?
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by 1attice 4y ago
Yes, it can. - Automated relations, whether with your employer or a customer, are trivial - These relations can be fine-tuned for exactly the level of syncophancy your boss prefers - So yes, it can tell your boss their ideas are good in pr
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by 1attice 4y ago
This is literally in the context of standardized testing? GPT 'evals'?
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by 1attice 4y ago
At pain of downvoting, I respectfully need to ask if you read the article? It literally describes an effort by Meta to put NFTs to use for artists. Again, decay.
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by 1attice 4y ago
wouldn't it be funny if knowledge workers could all be automated, except for English majors? The Revenge of the Call Centre
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by 1attice 4y ago
Imagine citing walking as a superior assay of intelligence than an LSAT.
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by 1attice 4y ago
So the thing is, giving wrong answers with confidence is literally what we train students to do when they are unsure. I can remember my GRE coach telling me that it was better to confidently choose an answer I only had 50% confidence in, ra
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by 1attice 4y ago
The article explains it with game theory. In game theory, there's a big difference between a so-called "iterated prisoner's dilemma" and a one-shot prisoner's dilemma. Call these IPD and OPD. Basically under the con
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by 1attice 4y ago
Former MS AI Platform IC here. The main value of this team was likely internal , as a sort of gauze bandage on the conscience of the progressives (like myself) that MSFT has tried to court. There was a time, not too long ago, where working
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by 1attice 4y ago
You aren't wrong, and again, I am at pains to indicate that I don't support NFTs, was disappointed with NFTs, and I genuinely believe they're a standout sign of cultural decay. Again, my concern is for the artists who were b
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by 1attice 4y ago
I'm no NFT cheerleader, but I do bemoan the failure of yet another attempt to provide artists with revenue. NFTs were always daft, but the fiction, as fiction often does, spoke to a real need.

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