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by ACCount37 12d ago
Your food, water and power are controlled by electronic systems. Your criminal record, your employment and your bank account are controlled by electronic systems. Your ability to communicate with other people and receive information about w
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by ACCount37 12d ago
If you're in the field, then you know: modern robotics is an AI problem more than anything else. If we have a rogue AI trying to get into a self-improvement loop and gunning for ASI? I'd expect that to be accompanied by a massive
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by ACCount37 12d ago
Adolf Hitler didn't have robots capable enough to carry out his will. He used humans to do it. It's the old-fashioned way of doing things, but, why change what works?
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by ACCount37 12d ago
Sometimes! Modern AIs have very limited metaknowledge - they don't know exactly where the limits of their capabilities lie. So you can get things like "a task is doable for an AI, but the AI thinks it's impossible, so it does
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by ACCount37 14d ago
Tesla also has its own NPUs for self-driving - and Tesla uses transformers for sensor fusion. My guess would be that the main use case for an NPU in iPhone just used to be image processing/computational photography. Thus the CNN bent.
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by ACCount37 15d ago
Humans had to get it drilled into them that "+12 -440" is a damn good line stat, and that keeping around dead code is bad, especially in the age of version control. Not too surprised that LLMs also don't "get it" by
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by ACCount37 15d ago
I almost never want to talk to an AI, because text is better for almost anything. But it's nice to have that "almost" corner case covered, no? Not to mention all the current "telephone bots" applications that could
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by ACCount37 15d ago
There are processes for teaching a model specific facts or specific behaviors. Including "respond to topic X with Y", if that's what you want. You could make a model that doesn't want to engage in "lunar landing was
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by ACCount37 15d ago
Yeah, it's good that open weights models can have their "filters" busted fairly reliably. Unlike whatever bone Anthropic has to pick with the very idea of biology. But that's a consequence of how the technology works - n
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by ACCount37 15d ago
And China controls AI too. It's just that their idea of "safety" is "ideological safety", and their idea of "alignment" is "alignment to the party line". They're cool with open weight AIs be
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by ACCount37 15d ago
Enabling more "proof of concept phase" projects to exist is one of the great boons of AI. If code is expensive, you don't want to commit to a PoC unless you're damn sure. If dirty code is cheap, you can vibe code a PoC e
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by ACCount37 15d ago
If you're doing non-redundant tests and your uncertainty bars aren't shrinking, it's usually a skill issue. If it looks like a duck, it might be a duck - or a painting of one. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and q
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by ACCount37 16d ago
I mean, how else would those buttons work? It's explicitly feedback data. And "this is good" or "this is bad" is empty if divorced from what "this" actually is.
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by ACCount37 17d ago
Camera blocks take internal volume. Smaller phones have less internal volume to spend - while still having to pack all the non-negotiables like the modem and the SoC into it. Something's got to give. And no one want that something to b
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by ACCount37 17d ago
> One decision we made is to always give real users an escape hatch. Read the Docs very rarely issues outright blocks or bans to specific IPs or user agents. Instead, our "worst" is a JavaScript challenge, and if a user solves
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by ACCount37 18d ago
As a rule: feedback loops are overrated. They are, in fact, included in the projections - we'd be on track to ~2C by 2100 instead of ~3C by 2100 if they weren't. They just aren't that big. There is no "Make Earth Into Ve
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by ACCount37 18d ago
Apple tried at AI integration and fumbled the bag repeatedly. In 2010s, they were among the "greats" of consumer AI. After 2022, they kept trying, and just had delays and underperformance. I don't think their actions now are
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by ACCount37 18d ago
Yes, I do. IPCC's reports are sensible. They're not unreliable just because they don't support the "doom and burning land" narratives. By the way, there is no "just realized we're missing 1.5C". That
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by ACCount37 18d ago
We're not even looking at 5C of warming by 2100 realistically. Like, that was considered to be an unlikely extreme scenario in 2014 AR5, and also in the tightened down 2021 AR6, and things have happened since! Renewables are cheaper th
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by ACCount37 19d ago
"Destroying the ecosystem" is just FUD. And if you don't find "average AI research intern" impressive, I'm not sure what to tell you. Have the goalposts moved so far that open ended problem solving at "ave
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by ACCount37 19d ago
"Quality of engagement" is as hard to measure as "length of engagement" is easy.
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by ACCount37 20d ago
"Find someone to blame" is such a worthless thing. Whip the sea all day long - the waves don't care. Modern AI has more in common with an ocean wave than it does with a hammer or a gun. It does its own things. It doesn't
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by ACCount37 20d ago
You gave the tree the ability to fall when you decided to plant it. It wouldn't have that ability if you didn't. And we already know that trees can fall, don't we? That doesn't make you inherently responsible for the tre
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by ACCount37 20d ago
Nope! If a tree was healthy and there was no reason to expect that it would fall, and you did nothing to make it fall? Then you're not responsible if it falls anyway. You're only responsible if it was you chopping it down - or if
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by ACCount37 20d ago
If you left a dog in your garage for a day, and came back to a scene of carnage - because the dog broke out of the garage, recruited a dozen neighborhood dogs to its cause, and then, working with the group, managed to assemble a small pile
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by ACCount37 20d ago
The problem is, AI is closer to "a loosely harnessed force of nature" or "a poorly understood biochemical reaction" than it is to "software" in how it acts, and how predictable it is. AIs do what they do, and w
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by ACCount37 20d ago
- God, moments before casting Adam and Eve out of Heaven
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by ACCount37 20d ago
Yeah this is just the effect of SpaceX showcasing "space launch is no longer the realm of government efforts only". They kicked off the wave of commercial space launch - and now, it reached the EU too.
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by ACCount37 22d ago
From "a connected fleet", I expected some form of direct model to model communications - like a small model being able to peer into the KV cache of a large model directly for guidance signal.
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by ACCount37 22d ago
"Online identity" seems like a castle built on quicksand in every single case. What's your account tied to? E-mail? That's usually on a mail server owned by someone else. If not, it's still on a domain owned by some

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