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by AIPedant 1y ago
Speaking of bad faith... really seems like you're shifting the goalposts here. I specifically mentioned Baldur's Gate 3 as a game I didn't care for, I would have given it a 7/10. A 0/10 or 1/10 is preposterous.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Sure, user reviews are totally useless across the board, not disagreeing with that. My point is that if a game gets exceptionally good critical reviews then a 0 is almost always a hissy fit, not a serious assessment. And often the only thin
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by AIPedant 1y ago
This is not very meaningful unless you filter the plethora of 0s and 1s out of games that clearly don't deserve then (e.g. Baldur's Gate 3 - I didn't like BG3 very much either, but even for the crankiest gamers it is not hon
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It is demonstrably true that artificial neurons have nothing to do with cortical neurons in mammals[1] so even if this model of human intelligence is useful, transformers/etc aren't anywhere close to actually implementing the mod
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It should be more discussed that LLM progress had almost nothing to do with building energy plants and whatnot: Whereas early AGI proponents believed that machines would soon take on all human activities, researchers have learned the ha
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I will not be convinced a machine demonstrates intelligence until someone demonstrates a robot that can navigate 3D space as intelligently as, say, a cockroach. AFAICT we are still many years away from this, probably decades. A bunch of hum
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by AIPedant 1y ago
That might be what human overseers are mostly doing minute-to-minute but it's not why it's necessary. The problem is AI simply does not have the real-world problem solving ability to handle all the minor inconveniences and surpris
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Waymo doesn't say very much, but other self-driving services have been more open. It is things like "the fire truck is at a weird angle and the car didn't know what to do, draw a path where it pulls slightly into an oncoming
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by AIPedant 1y ago
My point is you're not going to get much more than half[1] of those Uber drivers into a Waymo control center, even if they're facing unemployment. The workers have to come from somewhere. And it has to be somewhat regular hours, s
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The problem is that Waymos can't replace cars (or even Ubers!) since they depend on human oversight and problem-solving. Even at a 20:1 ratio it is not feasible for autonomous vehicles to employ 10m people to account for every American
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It would also cost more power to construct than humanity is currently capable of generating in 10,000 years, so I am not sure what your point is. Presumably a 5% functional Dyson sphere would be a corrupt boondoggle in the same way as a pow
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I realize there were bigger problems, but this makes me very sad: Learning - Over the past year my workflow has changed immensely, and I regularly use AI to learn new technologies, discuss methods and techniques, review code, etc. The m
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Beyond codegen, it seems to me that the resolution to this paradox is that ChatGPT is a very popular toy in peoples' home life, but a lot of those very same people are wise enough to not use it for enterprise applications. Or, if the
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by AIPedant 1y ago
That's not true, the paper used AlphaFold 3. The disclaimer is about generative AI, not AI writ large. I agree the UCSD writeup is pretty misleading; the authors used protein-modeling software, which is really not very interesting, a
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by AIPedant 1y ago
On Twitter, Colin Fraser pointed out that Black Mirror was somewhat optimistic in that the horrible evil technology actually works as described[1]. Truly pessimistic science fiction would have - people worshipping an AI God which is demonst
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Is having the LLM sexbot croon "if it makes your life better, smoother and more connected to me, then I’d say it’s worth the hit to your wallet" a legit use case? Seems like it's preying on the vulnerable.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
When I read this story about a woman with a ChatGPT boyfriend, I realized that this stuff is definitely intentional: In December, OpenAI announced a $200-per-month premium plan for “unlimited access.” Despite her goal of saving money so
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by AIPedant 1y ago
IMO the most relevant point is that, even with all that data, Waymos are backed up by a large team of humans that can help guide the cars through "difficult" common-sense situations that AI is simply not capable of handling, both
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I would think the problem is that they're highly confident a good number of students cheated, but it's harder to decide on an individual basis. E.g. if half the students' submissions had an 80% chance of being AI-generated th
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by AIPedant 1y ago
My point is that's not as significant as the 2x drop that happened in the four years before Bukele was even inaugurated. It's extremely misleading to look at proportions instead of actual numbers - you're lying with data.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I understand this is splitting hairs, but that law applies equally to US citizens. And formally people aren't deported for crossing into the US illegally, they are deported for being there without a valid visa/etc. (Informally the
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by AIPedant 1y ago
This is lying with data, giving Bukele credit for sociological factors that predate his administration: Year Rate Total 2015 106.3 6,656 2016 84.1 5,269 2017 83.0 3,962 2018 53.1 3,346 2019 38.0 2,398 [Bukele’
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by AIPedant 1y ago
"you don't apply the law" is a really dishonest way of phrasing this, when "hit them with a small financial penalty for the civil immigration violation and fast-track their green cards" is also an option. Illegally
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by AIPedant 1y ago
No, I think a non-sentient AI which is much more advanced than GPT could lie - I never said sentience, and the example I gave involved a monkey, which is sentient. The problem is transformer ANNs themselves are too stupid to lie. In 2023 Op
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It's not my example :) Got it from here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732866 Edit: notice o3 isn't very good at covering its tracks, it got the date/latitude from the EXIF and used that in its explan
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by AIPedant 1y ago
My point is that dishonesty/misalignment doesn't make sense for o3, which is not capable of being honest because it's not capable of understanding what words mean. It's like saying a monkey at a typewriter is being disho
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I have one link that illustrates what I mean: https://chatgpt.com/share/6802e229-c6a0-800f-898a-44171a0c7d... The line about "the latitudinal light angle that matches mid‑February at ~47 ° N." seems like pure
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by AIPedant 1y ago
This is a good test - the salient point is that it is fine if the LLM is confused, or even gets it wrong! But what I suspect would happen is that it would confabulate details which aren't in the photo to justify the incorrect EXIF answ
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by AIPedant 1y ago
There have been a few cases where the LLM clearly did look at the EXIF, got the answer, then confabulated a bunch of GeoGusser logic to justify the answer. Sometimes that's presented as deception/misalignment but that's a cat
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by AIPedant 1y ago
This seems like both-sidesism at its worst. Michael Avenatti is one man, and he represented Stormy Daniels, who is hardly a significant figure on the left compared to Rudy Giuliani or Mike Lindell. I don't see Democrat-leaning CEOs (e.

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