Bjorkbat

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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I love this podcast so much I make something of an event out of it when each episode comes out. When the video format Egyptian one comes out, I’ll probably try my hand at some Egyptian Koshari and Mesopotamian Mersu.
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Put a UVC emitting light in your mouth for 5 minutes a day (please don’t)
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Yeah, but does it matter? Most of their revenue comes from enterprise clients and it seems more likely that someone is going to create a killer app for AI by leveraging APIs and publishing their work on traditional distribution channels ra
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Reminds me of an early rumor back when Sam Altman was fired (and briefly re-hired) that the old board allegedly was very much against the GPT store. I kind of get why now. It arguably doesn't really aid in the non-profit's missio
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I mean, since we're sharing Forbes links https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/06/04/stable-di... The CEO of Stability seems to be rather controversial person at the helm of a rather con
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
He also left DeepMind because of allegations of bullying employees ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Suleyman ). Between that, what you just brought up, and the strange PR blitz he went on to promote his book, I k
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Huh, this whole time I thought they were just a way to launder money from selling meth
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Reminds me of this paper where some researchers had AIs role play as employees at a startup and tasked them with building various forms of software. It was pretty interesting. Managed to build Pong. Thing is though, they neglected to comp
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Something not often discussed when it comes to work in the trades is that it can really beat up your body after some years. Not uncommon to hear stories of guys getting hooked on painkillers.
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> Disclosing that the content was generated by AI Hmm, hadn't thought of that angle before. So, like, if one uses a copilot to generate code, does it now have to be watermarked somehow?
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You don't necessarily need AI to create a door that opens during a fire alert. You could simply make it so that the door is no longer badge controlled if a fire alert goes off. Sure, it's possible someone might exploit this by cr
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Reminds me of the no-code / low-code hype around 2020, tons of startups advertising app-builders that used little, if any, AI. Just blocks that you dragged-and-dropped. While many of them were successful, it seems like overall they d
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Also, something else to consider, I kind of consider the automation of writing code not all that different from the automation of architectural and engineering drawings. No doubt some engineers were distraught when computers took the fun o
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Something I kind of tell myself is that if AI effectively becomes a drop-in replacement for software engineers (or is at least 95% as good as the median one) it's going to suck because I lost my job and we've killed one of the few
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I mean, this might just be existential cope, but my first thought when looking at the Upwork demo posted on Twitter ( https://x.com/cognition_labs/status/1767548768734294113?s=20 ) was that it seemed a little bit su
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For the longest time I thought the person behind the account was just some random guy who was probably very into crypto and decided to dabble in AI because of the parallels between e/acc and the whole "to the moon" messaging
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Honestly, as interesting as the the chip sounds, I'm admittedly kind of biased against the company's probability of success simply because the founder is basically the #1 e/acc meme account/shitposter on Twitter. Like, i
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I'm not sure how much of a risk this is to LLMs in particular, but I feel like we're already seeing the impact on image AI models. Even though they're getting better at generating hands that make sense and other fine details,
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Ironically Claude 3 appears to have certain "quirks" arguably caused by the fact that its training data contains synthetic data. In one instance ( https://twitter.com/DimitrisPapail/status/176477229891207
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I mean, I definitely disagree with the statement that GPT-4 is an AGI, but OpenAI themselves define an AGI in their charter as an AI that is better than the median human at most economically valuable work. Even when taking that into conside
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A little anecdotal evidence, I've been car free for over 3 years now, and do everything by e-bike unless it's after dark, in which case I just get an Uber. About a year-and-a-half into being car-free I made the switch from a norm
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If you had given me their explanation of events before I had any knowledge of the output from ChatGPT, then I would infer that the output would be random gibberish, or perhaps something more akin to creating an accidental shift cipher of so
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It's more that they don't care if, say, an automated support chatbot doesn't work in Firefox. In which case they tell you to just use Chrome rather than submit a ticket telling one of their web devs to fix something.
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Something I take issue with concerning AI, which is also incidentally why I remain skeptical of it, is that it feels like it doesn’t increase agency in any meaningful way, and sometimes decreases it. With image generation, you can generate
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As bad as Google Search is I‘m cautious about the prospects of this making a dent in their search monopoly. Remember when ChatGPT was integrated into Bing? Turns out that did nothing for search market share.
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I have the paywall as well, but in the opening sentence they mention they confirmed it with a spokesperson at the company. Sounds pretty legit.
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>Large companies in any industry are generally not trendsetters but laggards because they have so much invested in the systems they already have in place. Moving all of Google or Microsoft remote is a daunting task. Starting a new compan
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>I'll tell you that I'm getting overseas talent for roles where 10 years ago I would have hired entry level talent in the US. But since my company is fully remote and distributed, the downside to hiring in LatAm and Eastern Eur
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Kind of reminds me of the "messenger boom" back when Facebook Messenger was new and hot and a bunch of people thought that the "next big thing" was apps that utilize a chat interface. An argument I encountered frequentl
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If you're looking for more bandcamp alternatives, someone made a media player ( https://github.com/torcado194/scritch-player ) that you can add to an Itch page (example: https://keestak.itch.io/heck-

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