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I don't think this applies to Elizabeth Tower/Big Ben, as it's an analogue clock and, from footage I can find[0], its minute hand appears to move continuously opposed to in steps. (or at least, not in full-minute steps) Also,
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"Man pretending to be woman vs real woman" was just an example used to introduce the question in the form of a party game between humans before moving onto the actual question of a machine pretending to be human vs a real human. A
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IMO a critical feature of the Turing test/imitation game, which many modern implementations including this site's linked paper ignore, is that the interrogator talks to both a human and a bot and must decide that one xor the other
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2y ago
People are upset that: 1. Honey makes money through deals with retailers to not offer the best coupon code to the extension's users 2. Honey swaps out the referral code from the blog/video/etc. that actually referred you to
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2y ago
Interesting - do you have a link?
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2y ago
Are these IPs actually from OpenAI/etc. ( https://openai.com/gptbot.json ), or is it possibly something else masquerading as these bots? The real GPTBot/Amazonbot/etc. claim to obey robots.txt, and switching to
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2y ago
> It can be a decent _heuristic_ for “I probably don’t want to hear from this person”. Like, it’s not bulletproof, but the _cost_ of a false positive is low. I think “follows Trump” would be a not-great heuristic, for the reason you ment
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> then I understand that they share values in some way Is it expected that people only ever want to see content that aligns with their views in their feed? I feel it's relatively common for someone to want to keep an eye on, say, wh
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2y ago
I feel your argument relies on assuming that being an optimist or pessimist means believing 100% or 0%, whereas I'd claim it's instead more just having a relative leaning in a direction. Say after inspecting some rusty old engines
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2y ago
Particularly given the article's target is "systems based on large neural networks" and not specifically LLMs, I'd claim there are a vast number of uncontroversially beneficial applications: language translation, video t
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2y ago
> https://www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-cybertruck-becomes-ex... While the actual images are linked further down, the article's lead image and video thumbnail are just of a wrap from this video: https:/&
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2y ago
> I want something different from just "multimodal". I want left-brain vs right-brain, or slow vs fast, or something on that order. I want a different kind - not just fancier and larger LLMs. I want an LLM coupled to an inferen
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2y ago
> LLMs do have actual knowledge - the knowledge that was encoded in the words in the training data. That's not how they store the data internally, but the actual knowledge comes from there. For non-multimodal models, and minus ephem
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> For to define "reasoning" I'd say reasoning is the process of applying logic to draw inferences from some information/axioms/assumptions. For instance if you're asked "can a fridge fit in a bread-box?
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> everything up to today is perfectly explainable with advanced statistics and NLP Is there some concrete task or behavior that, if demonstrated, you believe wouldn't be explainable by advanced statistics and NLP? In my mind even hu
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> I've been annoyed by the redefinition of artificial intelligence since the LLM boom started If there's any redefinition, it's being pushed further out. AI was previously used to describe far simpler systems, like expert
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2y ago
The sun coming up later in our daily work/life/sleep cycle means we're waking up earlier, if I'm understanding your question.
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> [...] and likely charging nowhere near enough to cover their costs. As I wrote in the Subprime AI Crisis in September, in the event that these companies start charging what they actually need to, I hypothesize it will multiply the cost
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> What about mechanical devices that simply wear out? I think wear-and-tear from usage falls under "until broken by me", which I see as intended to cover ordinary breakage that would exist even in absence of copyright and trade
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2y ago
What's the difference between software as a service and software as a utility? Not familiar with the latter and can't find much on it.
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The email being from no-reply@amazon.com should in theory not be spoofable due to Amazon's DMARC record, and it links to a real existing amazon.com page for ID verification. Amazon has a help page[0] indicating that asking for ID on re
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> name a market where open source has prevented that market from settling into “the hands of a few companies.” Go ahead. I’ll wait. Even just staying in the field of AI, you'd typically use PyTorch in Python on a Linux machine
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"Godot hijacked" initially made me worry that they'd had their servers taken over in a supply-chain malware attack, but it seems to just be that some malware is being written in GDScript because it's cross-platform and n
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2y ago
> Of the 11 positive applications that you listed, only the 1st, 3rd, 11th and arguably the 4th would benefit from voice cloning, which is what's being promoted here. The rest are solved merely by (improved) TTS and do not require t
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That aspect feels to me like "I used to racially profile people on the street to judge risk, but winter clothing now obscures skin color at a distance". There are heuristics that give non-zero information but are harmful to use, w
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Developing some insight on its negative potential could demonstrate imagination, but the claim that it could be used to scam people is pretty much just rote repetition by now - an obligatory point made in every article and under every post
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I'd claim the way most people imagine it being used for scamming, cold-calls impersonating someone the victim knows, doesn't really end up working out in practice because scam operations dial numbers at a huge scale expecting most
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> While we're at it, why not have the AI automatically detect all bugs and fix them? /s Why not? Nothing's going to catch all bugs, but there's plenty of low-hanging fruit that could benefit from automated scanning.
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> Microsoft's Connected Experiences feature automatically gathers data from Word and Excel files to train the company's AI models. This feature is turned on by default, meaning user-generated content is included in AI training
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2y ago
A mobile browser turning plaintext URLs, phone numbers, addresses, place names, etc. into clickable links seems mostly fine to me. I'd consider it an ad if Osaka Castle were paying Google to appear as a link on mentions of castles - wh
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