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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
Who knows if they are behind or not?! Things like advanced math and advanced hacking require you to put a ton of effort into specifically training for those skills, and I've not seen any indication that the Chinese AI companies are int
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
> Rumor was they were sitting on the solution to the Hodge conjecture I think someone at OpenAI (Brockman?) claimed they had "made substantial progress on it", but there is a mathematician on Twitter offering a $25,000 bet, wit
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
You can theorize all you like, and many people like yourself are expecting to see GDP growth pick up as a result of AI, maybe if only because of the boom in datacenter construction etc (regardless of whether AI ends up actually boosting the
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
Huh? Developed countries tend to have lower fertility rates (i.e. less kids per family) than undeveloped ones. Comfortably off, well educated people tend to put thought into whether to have kids or not. In poor countries people tend to have
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
Mini-AGI is a totally inappropriate name - it seems what this project is shooting for, but not delivering on, is being a language model with "continual learning". Where it seems to fail, by design, on this goal is in delivering co
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
In fact it says the opposite - that there is pruning. Our brain also has some capacity limit, and maybe degraded memory performance over time, but in either case it's a graceful degradation - you may forget fine details of things that
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
Don't worry, we've got Elon Musk trying to single-handedly repopulate America. And if that fails, we've got "Idiocracy" to save the human species as the dumb-asses pump out babies as fast as you like.
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
It's hard to say that it's stupidity (at least not country-specific stupidity) - it seems that globally, presumably due to the state of the world along many axis, many people are choosing to have fewer children, and it's happ
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
What makes you think they don't have a domestic market? The Chinese domestic EV market is the largest in the world. Chinese factories are full of Chinese robotics. Companies like Huawei are struggling to meet the domestic demand for AI
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
It depends on what you are trying to make, but there are workarounds for most things, and it becomes more of a cost and volume issue than a showstopper. If your yield is low and you still want the volume, then run more wafers, but then you
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
On a related note, I was reading yesterday that apparently the real bottleneck for Chinese production of AI accelerators is HBM production, not processors or ASML equipment. The lack of ASML EUV machines certainly hurts, and pushing DUV so
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by HarHarVeryFunny 6d ago
Why would you want/need to? The advantage of HBM over regular non-stacked DRAM is memory bandwidth, which also requires a super-wide memory bus - 2048 bits wide for HBM4. Compare that to the 128 bit wide bus of a modern CPU. So to take
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by HarHarVeryFunny 6d ago
There may be a few scientists rejecting use of AI for that reason, but I would expect them to be a tiny minority, just as I would expect the number of developers who accept that AI is a powerful coding tool, but refuse to use it just becaus
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by HarHarVeryFunny 6d ago
Sure - the AI companies want some quick trophy kills to feature in their IPO prospectus, but they are not going to themselves be cracking the genuinely tough problems. There is a difference between what's easy/hard for a human vs
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by HarHarVeryFunny 6d ago
It seems that physics -> chemistry -> biology is a layering of abstractions and/or emergent phenomena, and any explanations of mechanics at these higher levels is more along the lines of "how was this built from these lego b
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by HarHarVeryFunny 6d ago
What aspect of that is an unsolved problem, and one that feels more fundamental rather than engineering / in need of explanation ?
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by HarHarVeryFunny 6d ago
What seems ridiculous to me is putting together any such lists, even in math, and expecting/hoping the AI companies to solve them. The people working for the AI companies are not scientists or experts in anything outside of building LL
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by HarHarVeryFunny 6d ago
What would be your idea of a biology problem that isn't an "engineering" one? It seems that understanding biology could be characterized as trying to figure out "how did nature engineer this". For that matter isn&#x
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by HarHarVeryFunny 6d ago
The goal of the suggested "origins of life" problem, as written, isn't to guess at history - it's to create some similar plausible self-emergent system in the lab. Seems a bit of an ambitious goal for a language model th
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7d ago
That's not quite right - a fish does not have a cortex. The pallium of a fish and mammal are structured differently. A fish's (& bird's) pallium has a clustered (aka "nuclear") organization, while a mammal'
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7d ago
I've just being doing some googling to try to understand this research better. It seems that it's been known for a while that more primitive animals have/had functionally distinct front (sensory) and rear (motor + autonomic)
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7d ago
I really don't get any sense of what these events are from the look-alike posters. They are all just a wall of color and excessive detail. For a poster to catch your eye and be informational it needs to be way simpler - should be able
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7d ago
I was wondering that too - presumably they are all from the same image generator, but which one? They are definitely all ghastly - way too busy for me to want to give a 2nd glance at them. Of the block of examples shown, the bottom right on
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7d ago
True - OpenAI did at least say they used their models to help design their Jalapeno chip, but AFAIK zero details on how they are using their models in their software development process other than to automate some part(s) of training. Ziphu
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7d ago
There is some truth (but not accuracy) to it, but not for this reason. This article is about brainstem (aka hindbrain) vs the rest (midbrain + forebrain). Evolutionally older animal lineages like fish, reptiles, birds all have midbrain + fo
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by HarHarVeryFunny 7d ago
Honestly will not be surprised to see future Anthropic press release that their AI is so powerful it made something in their bio lab that escaped and killed people, and that the government really needs to step in and and stop them from doin
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by HarHarVeryFunny 8d ago
The reality is often going to be much worse than TSMC's N2 -> A14 "mixed design" 20% density increase marketing spin. Apparently the N2 -> A14 density increase for logic is 23% (Tom's Hardware), and about 0% for bo
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by HarHarVeryFunny 8d ago
The cost-per-transistor used to fall as density increased (Moore's Law), but has now basically flattened off. As each generation of lithography tech (DUV -> EUV -> High-NA EUV) gets pushed to the limit, it becomes necessary to us
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by HarHarVeryFunny 8d ago
A14 is more in keeping with N2, and it is anyways just a name, not a measurement.
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by HarHarVeryFunny 8d ago
What's wild is that the mirrors used in the EUV machines are smooth to a level of deviation even smaller that the feature size of the gates being etched. These mirrors are up to a couple of feet in diameter, with an average smoothness

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