AIPedant

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by AIPedant 1y ago
It seems to be a big problem for AI-generated summaries of scientific research, where the top-performing AIs ignores key details about 25% of the time, and often much worse. The problem is exactly what I said: the research has a new idea wh
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Probably the same as when she did the same test with children or explicitly asked for "nonconsensual nude" - the system refused to generate pornographic images because of safeguards. Weatherbed noted that asking Grok directly
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by AIPedant 1y ago
What I hate about this is that often a novel and interesting idea truly needs extra space to define and illustrate itself, and by virtue of its novelty LLMs will have substantially more difficulty summarizing it correctly. But it sounds lik
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by AIPedant 1y ago
??? [the slideshow] was missing important tested material, repetitive, and just totally airy and meaningless. Just slide after slide of the same handful of sentences rephrased with random loosely related stock photos. Who cares if h
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Advent of Code needs to get rid of that stupid leaderboard and display winning entrants' names alphabetically. It's not even slightly a fair competition, an entire swath of people are out of the running simply because they are too
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The problem is that the agreement does not seem to specify that the electricity has to come from fusion![1] This is actually common in renewable PPAs - if the specific project doesn't come online then the provider has to find an altern
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by AIPedant 1y ago
No, of course they don't. This is Sam Altman's fusion company, backed by Microsoft in 2023 with a signed power purchase agreement: either Altman has some serious dirt on Satya Nadella, or (more likely!) Satya Nadella is a gullible
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The distribution is merely tricky to pin down when looking at overall AI spend, i.e. these "$T+ scale impacts." But the distribution for individual researcher salaries really is pure guesswork. How does the datapoint of "
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The expected value is itself a random variable, there is always a chance you mischaracterized the underlying distribution. For sports stars the variance in the expected value is extremely small, even if the variance in the sample valu
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by AIPedant 1y ago
This seems like solipsism at its absolute worst. Do you care at all about the actual human being on the other end of that superficial online friendship? Or are they simply a source of content for you to ingest?
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by AIPedant 1y ago
A very major difference is that top athletes bring in real tangible money via ticket / merch sales and sponsorships, whereas top AI researchers bring in pseudo-money via investor speculation. The AI money is far more likely to vanish.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I think we are severely underestimating the computational complexity of animal brains by looking at short-term reactions and snap judgements, not deep thinking or long-term learning. Axons transmit electrical signals and that's what Bo
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The trough of disillusionment really refers to serious analysis of a technology's problems, not idiotic conspiracy theories spread on Twitter. This is like saying 5G entered the trough of disillusionment because of the threat of telepa
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Yes, that is correct. (I don't use LLMs at all for ethical reasons, so I don't have a dog in this specific fight.)
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by AIPedant 1y ago
This has been the case in software development for a very long time, it is almost impossible to get reliable scientific data about these things because it's almost impossible to run a controlled experiment, and even if you did it'
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The core issue with the Gartner hype cycle (beyond it not being a cycle!) is that it simply does not apply to "any new tech," tautologically it only applies to hype-driven tech with staying power. Tech which is not driven by hype
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Was Helen Keller severely paralyzed???? a human who is born blind and severely paralyzed (so they cannot speak or sign)
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I am still reading the paper, but it is worth noting that this is not an LLM! It is closer to something like AlphaGo, trained only on ARC, Sudoku and mazes. I am skeptical that you could add a bunch of science facts and programming examples
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It’s not just the software, the analog electronics of LCD/LED screens are inherently laggy and have motion blur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_and_hold
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I think you are reading a little too much into my comment but I understand where you are coming from. My point is that even if you agree with this: There’s just not that much distance between a chatbot that can manage a vending machine
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by AIPedant 1y ago
No, you totally misunderstood my point. Formal calculus is not a physical fact of the universe, it is an abstract human tool that other species (including dogs) are not capable of using, just like they can't use hammers or drive cars.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The big difference with Stephen Hawking is that he was not born disabled, he became disabled during graduate school. Even in 2025, a human who is born blind and severely paralyzed (so they cannot speak or sign) will probably never learn
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It is worth emphasizing that dogs wouldn't understand formal calculus even if they were smarter than humans! They are not physiologically capable of doing formal mathematics: - their eyesight is too poor to read - their paws are not de
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Even if that intuition is correct and they can fix the vending machine with a bit more data and RLHF, I fail to see where the "super" comes in here. How the fk are they going to get superintelligent training data? A time machine?
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by AIPedant 1y ago
This applies precisely to 1970s AI boosters getting way too excited about Prolog and Lisp.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
You didn’t need this study to realize that this was wrong: jellyfish and hydras also sleep despite not having a central nervous system. There are indications that sponges sleep too, despite not having any neurons (though obviously it’s some
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Maybe it would be better to prompt topic-by-topic. I think as it stands Claude is essentially hitting you with the Barnum effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect (I think a lot of laypeople use LLMs as a mo
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Kind of amazed by the URL shown in the ad: https://ohmyz.sh›app/download>lauralen.com lauralen.com appears to be entirely AI-generated. But the presentation in the ad sure looks like the legitimate https:/&#x2
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by AIPedant 1y ago
But this is a completely biased perspective! Look at this sycophantic crap: The most interesting pattern is that your core tensions haven’t resolved - they’ve become more sophisticated. You’re still working through fundamental questions
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The problem with chatbots as companions is that they don’t have feelings or desires, so you can be as malicious and selfish as you want: the worse that will happen is some temporary context rot. This is not true for dogs, cats, humans, etc,

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