Closi

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by Closi 3y ago
Depends how much research is driven by Ilya…
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by Closi 3y ago
Mainly because LLMs have so far basically passed every formal test of ‘AGI’ including totally smashing the Turing test. Now we are just reliant on ‘I’ll know it when I see it’. LLMs as AGI isn’t about looking at the mechanics and trying to
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by Closi 3y ago
Well that's not actually how it works - they are just getting a model (WikiSP & EntityLinker) to write a query that responds with the fact from Wikidata. Did you read the post or just the headline? Besides, let's not forget th
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by Closi 3y ago
Well it appears that ridicule from the German tech nerds isn’t a good predictor of product success then
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by Closi 3y ago
Eh, probably a poor example considering the iPhone 4 was hardly a flop and was still broadly considered the best smartphone out at the time. The people who thought this was a total-showstopper were, on the whole, probably wrong. Counter-exa
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by Closi 3y ago
If you aren’t willing to pay $10 a month for this, frankly you aren’t the customer. I’m in a small business that pays much more per person for mapping software :) (10 person team, probably £8k per year spend)
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by Closi 3y ago
Well surely if it's easy to find these basic questions, could you not share one example? Or quickly find a new one? Your idea of very basic might not be my idea of very basic.
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by Closi 3y ago
I'm not sure what the point is in your comparison - is your point that GPT-4 will become overwhelmingly popular with further refinement? The iPhone was pretty successful, and the iPhone 4 was arguably the best one that had been release
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by Closi 3y ago
It's not that I don't believe you, but without sharing the specific prompt it's hard to say if it's actually GPT4 failing, or if it's actually being poorly-prompted, or if actually the task it is being given is more
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by Closi 3y ago
I suspect automated code reviews and doing high-quality automatic documentation (i.e. better than current standards in most projects) will be fully within the capabilities of LLMs soon. Fixing random build failures will probably follow... S
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by Closi 3y ago
Spiritual predecessor - it was released 3 years before Wave :)
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by Closi 3y ago
An AI can teach you something you don't understand :)
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by Closi 3y ago
More expensive to run but cheaper to write. Engineers are expensive, so actually the cost/benefit analysis is a little more complex and different problems will have different solutions.
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by Closi 3y ago
LLMs will be good replacements for a portion of customer service queries (eg where’s my order, help me fix this common computer issue etc), and will probably be a bad replacement for other queries (eg complaint handling), but it doesn’t hav
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by Closi 3y ago
Agreed! It's backed by solid economics if you believe a load of things that aren't backed up by solid economics.
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by Closi 3y ago
I certainly consider ChatGPT to be one killer app. Copilot to be another. Midjourney to be another - or at least diffusion based image editing tools which can be brought into photo and video editing workflows. The killer app here is probabl
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by Closi 3y ago
It's simple! You just vote for someone who then votes for the person who decides who will vote for the person that is the European president. It's like democracy except so indirect that it's total shit. Can't trust the
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by Closi 3y ago
> the choice is to live 2 years behind... That's one world - there is another where the time gap grows a lot more as the compute and training requirements continue to rise. Microsoft will probably be willing to spend multiple billi
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by Closi 3y ago
Interesting analysis. Suprised HN is so negative towards AI (and that the positive:negative ratio to AI is about the same as it was for Crypto a few years ago!) The obvious difference is that AI has abundant use-cases, while Crypto only has
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by Closi 3y ago
LLM's can, of course, synthesize data which is not in their training set. Of course they can't create new facts, other than in principle, ones that can be derived from the training data.
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by Closi 3y ago
Shelf life can also be improved by freezing rather than other techniques (as is the case with Cook).
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by Closi 3y ago
> I wish it was possible to buy decent home cooked food for a reasonable fee :( I mean that’s pretty much what supermarkets sell right? Ready meals that can be heated, which are effectively cooked the same way as at the home but just on
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by Closi 3y ago
Text watermarks are possible - one previously-used method is to use different ascii characters for spaces and dashes, that looks invisible to the user but can be detected if it’s a straight copy-paste (even when printed due to slightly diff
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by Closi 3y ago
It's absolutely wasteful. The disadvantage of the opposite is that if everything is nationalised into one giant org, it could become too big and become an unmanageable and slow monolith (which is why it was decentralised back in the 90
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by Closi 3y ago
Seconded - and it’s almost 100% Apple Pay for me so I rarely carry a card here either.
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by Closi 3y ago
Not really true - a corporate capital gains tax for instance is generally born by a companies shareholders rather than the companies consumers, so it's clear that some taxes can be directed more towards company shareholders than consum
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by Closi 3y ago
To clarify - I mean it can be considered regressive for consumers rather than businesses. A higher proportion of income of the poor gets spent on VAT than the rich. > Depends on how you structure the VAT. I don't understand all the
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by Closi 3y ago
Well as per the other points, VAT isn't actually a corporate tax that actually works - Firstly because it is a tax on consumer prices rather than corporate profits or revenue. If you were a highly profitable oil drilling company, or we
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by Closi 3y ago
Relying solely on VAT has big issues too - it is a regressive tax (VAT paid as a percentage of net household income tends to be higher for poorer households), B2B businesses would be fully untaxed, and it doesn't really tax the busines
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by Closi 3y ago
Depends on your application - A game engine won't break down into this 4 layer model, but lots of enterprise applications (or ecosystems) will. If an application continues to grow, and the team building it grows, it will eventually nee

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