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by ACCount37 2mo ago
You can literally have an LLM output target joint angles. As text. To be decoded by an explicit decoder, and executed by the robot. Some early VLAs did exactly that. Your entire premise is wrong. Modern action decoders are different, and us
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
Did the past decades of AI research teach you absolutely nothing? Every time you see something that "suggests a very specific, very precise, "algorithm" taught in an imitation learning session"? Scale the imitation learn
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
Depends entirely on VLA arch. Some have dedicated action diffusion heads that work in a standalone non-text action output space. Much like an LLM can either use an external TTS or have audio output heads attached to it directly for native S
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
RSA algorithm you can print on a shirt - and that would give you encryption that works as well as it possibly can. There's no "RSA 6.7 Turbo Pro EncryptingPlus" that would give you something radically new that the "t-shi
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
The point is: DRM is circumvented once, by some grizzled pirate captain. Everyone else just gets to plunder their downloads DRM free, nice and easy. DRM is ineffective because the pirate uploaders are competent enough to break it, and an av
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
I've seen way too much humanslop to be able to reject LLM slop outright. There are areas where the average of LLM slop already beats the average of humanslop by a sizeable margin.
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
Tesla's entire fleet runs on raw cameras. Including the driverless Robotaxi vehicles - which are basically a 1:1 match to how Waymo operates. Plenty of hecklers were saying "you can't self-drive on cameras", and some sti
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
It's a load of bollocks, and always was. Modern robotics is, at its core, not a hardware problem. It's an AI problem. We have plenty of headroom in the hardware - what we don't have is an AI good enough to utilize it. We don&
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
It's like the good old joke about a bear-proof trash can. There is now a considerable overlap between the capabilities of the dumbest users and the smartest AIs.
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
Most censorship isn't "removal of knowledge" but "installation of behavior that prevents some knowledge from being revealed or applied in certain ways". This behavior can, in turn, be transferred via distillation. B
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
People in the US buy cars. Can a household robot provide as much utility as a car? If "yes", the market gets pretty big.
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
That's how it works for humans. And, sure, LLMs are severely human-adjacent. But they aren't human. An LLM can just re-ingest the entire codebase every time it wants to make a change - open it up, find the relevant parts, derive h
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
Why would anyone ever want to solve 99 Cloudflare captchas a day if you can get a bot to do it instead?
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
Why would "memory" be relevant to that? I honestly don't see it be much more relevant to "write maintainable code" than it is to "play chess".
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
That's the entire point of the "maintainable" part: someone with no "memory" of what was written where and why should be able to walk into the codebase, understand how it works, and be able to make a sensible change
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
At this point, I wouldn't be too surprised if LLMs just get better at "write understandable, maintainable code" than most developers are. For now, LLMs are still bad at it, but they're already at "competitive with h
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
"Drop a preprint like it's a mic" is ML's new "publish".
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
Increasing raw model scale is one of the most consistent and reliable ways of increasing its intelligence. In a way, training an AI is: using an algorithm to find, discover and refine other algorithms computationally. When we scale, we pour
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
I wish the users weren't so fucking stupid with the "they made the model worse" stuff. Then that 1 out of 10 case where the model was actually made worse (whether intentionally or by mistake) would stand out instead of being
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
You should. Feel like a conspiracy theorist when saying things like this. Users are not reliable or consistent model evaluators. Users adapt to models - the moment they get a model that performs better, their expectations rise, their tasks
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
This is the "baby's first AI risk" tier of AI danger. There is no known upper limit to how powerful those systems get, and there might not be one. Don't think "a smart guy". Think "project Manhattan and CI
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
I would be delighted if AI companies got together and thoroughly dismantled DMCA. That atrocity of a law was a blight upon digital freedom since the day it came to exist. DRM should never have been given any legal protection - and I would p
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
Sounds like a way to distract from the real environmental issues with yet another "plastic straws" debacle. A fake issue that makes for some nice headlines in the media - but when you run the numbers, it obviously doesn't mat
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
Niche text. It's not impossible that there was only ever under a thousand of them printed and released into circulation. A digital copy would exist somewhere, of course. But for us, that only matters if we can buy or download it. And f
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
They are paying a fair amount. In the ballpark of $5 per book. You know, piracy online is nice and simple - but it's kind of hard to get physical media without paying what the previous owner considers "a fair amount" to part
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
Scanning books by taking them apart into singular pages and scanning those pages is faster and cheaper. AI training is a numbers game, so they want faster and cheaper. What happens to the pages after? No one needs them anymore, so they get
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
The publishers sued AI companies for training on shadow library data, hoping to negotiate content deals for big $$$ down the line. Instead, they got analog hole'd. Turns out that buying an old book for $5 and destructively scanning it
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
Can we not do the "AI is drinking all the water" bullshit at least on HN?
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
I couldn't. Amusing that archive.ph's own crawler, evidently, went through just fine.
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by ACCount37 2mo ago
VPN exits often "come from datacenters". And there are entire countries where the web can be unusable without. If you don't have LaLiga in your country, that doesn't mean everyone is so lucky. Blanket IP range bans, in t

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