Jevon23

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by Jevon23 4y ago
>If everything you get paid for goes in and out over a wire, you're in trouble. So… almost everyone who posts here? Not sure why everyone here is so excited to be out of a job. I guess they all think that UBI will fall out of the sk
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by Jevon23 4y ago
I can’t think of any other technology besides nuclear weapons where the downsides were so obviously bad to so many people, right after it was developed, and the upsides were so paltry in comparison.
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by Jevon23 4y ago
On the one hand, GPT-4 has only been out for two weeks. Give it time. On the other hand, if someone is going to claim that GPT-4 can make awesome things all by itself, instead of just toy demos and mediocre content - then they should be pre
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by Jevon23 4y ago
This explanation is trivially incorrect if you actually read the quote from Wittgenstein: >My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has use
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by Jevon23 4y ago
I’d be shocked if those stories weren’t already in GPT-4’s training data.
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GPT-4 writes an entire 115 page fiction novel(old.reddit.com)
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by Jevon23 4y ago
I really don’t want my productivity to increase. Worst case scenario is that it gets SO good at writing code that software engineering teams are severely downsized or are made obsolete altogether, and I find myself out of a job. I’m not exp
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by Jevon23 4y ago
Oh my god, can we please nip this cult shit in the bud? It’s not alive, don’t worship it.
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by Jevon23 4y ago
A contract without teeth is worthless. Who in the world is going to sue someone for submitting an AI-generated story to a sci-fi magazine? Who has the time, resources, and motive? You may as well just ask everyone to pinky promise that they
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by Jevon23 4y ago
The future is what people make of it. Vote with your feet. Refuse to participate in systems that you don’t think are ethical. At least homeschooling is still an option, for the time being.
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by Jevon23 4y ago
These people are convinced they’re building God. They will usher in a utopia. You’ll never convince them that the risks outweigh the benefits because they think the benefits will be infinite. Either that, or OpenAI just sees an opportunity
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by Jevon23 4y ago
I don’t think anyone is claiming to not be impressed. Yes, we’re all impressed. This was unimaginable sci-fi just 5 years ago. You did it, we’re impressed! You won. The next step after that is for people to figure out how to justify their c
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by Jevon23 4y ago
People will lie, sure, but you only need to introduce a small amount of risk to make big risk-averse companies wary. Say an ex-Blizzard employee takes a character design from the last project he worked on there and uses the exact same desig
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by Jevon23 4y ago
> It's much cheaper to throw a person at GPT-X than actually "waste" an hour or two interviewing. It’s even cheaper to just draw names at random out of a hat, but universities don’t do that. Clearly there is some other s
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by Jevon23 4y ago
The goalposts have not moved. The goalposts have never been moved. An AGI is an AI that can do everything a human can do, period. If you were starting a startup for example, you wouldn’t need to hire any humans - you would just spin up enou
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by Jevon23 4y ago
Surely if there’s one task that’s AGI-complete, it’s programming. So if the AI makes programming obsolete, you probably have bigger things to worry about than job security.
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by Jevon23 4y ago
This is completely insane and only reinforces my belief that this technology is a net negative for society.
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by Jevon23 4y ago
>It's got the talking point about Python that we were hearing about 10 years ago - "tired of those pesky curly brackets in Java, try this new language you might not have heard of: Python!" That was a talking point closer t
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by Jevon23 4y ago
They wouldn’t be worth paying attention to... if it weren’t for the fact that Sam Altman is part of that clique.
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by Jevon23 4y ago
Surely anyone familiar with software engineering knows that the finish line is reached when the finish line is reached. And no sooner. Physicists at the beginning of the 20th century also thought that the finish line of physics was in sight
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by Jevon23 4y ago
>how much further are we moving the goal post? My goalpost for AGI is when Microsoft can fire their entire engineering staff, replace them with AI, and not notice any decrease in productivity or quality of output. This test is empiricall
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by Jevon23 4y ago
So, what are the network effects that will get me to use AI? Why won’t I be able to just opt out? Technology spreads the fastest when it has powerful network effects backing it up. It’s getting increasingly hard to opt out of having a smart
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by Jevon23 4y ago
>authors seemingly in love with the sound of their own voice. They should be. And if you’re not in love with the sound of the author’s voice too, you shouldn’t be reading their works. Literature is a luxury. It’s not constrained by utili
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by Jevon23 4y ago
There are no legitimate uses for this technology. Its only purpose is to scam and deceive. It should be regulated in the same way that nukes and guns are regulated. Contrary to what a lot of the HN crowd thinks, regulation of technology is
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by Jevon23 4y ago
Hopefully with Stackoverflow banning ChatGPT responses, people here will be a little more sympathetic to art sites that wanted to ban AI-generated images.
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by Jevon23 4y ago
>Universities and schools need to accept that writing essays without AI support will simply not be a useful skill anymore It’s kind of mind-blowing that anyone could think this. You’re posting on a website for essays. Small essays, gener
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by Jevon23 4y ago
No vax. No masking. No precautions. Never caught it, never had any symptoms.
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by Jevon23 4y ago
>If artists didn't want their art to be used (for a variety of purposes!) they shouldn't have made it freely available on the internet. There’s all sorts of software and source code freely available online, but you can’t do wha
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by Jevon23 4y ago
100% agree. I’m just talking about what they actually paid, not what they should be paying.
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by Jevon23 4y ago
General-purpose robotics is a much harder problem and costs more money. Art turned out to be within reach of current ML techniques at a relatively reasonable price, so that’s where people are investing their resources right now. It’s not th

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