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Keep in mind those mathematicians were kept in the dark about the funding: it is incredibly unethical to invite a coauthor to your paper and not tell where the money came from. It's just incredibly scummy behavior: I imagine some of th
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What's even more suspicious is that these tweets from Elliot Glazer indicate that they are still "developing" the hold-out set, even though elsewhere Epoch AI strongly implied this already existed: https://xcancel.
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
Elliot Glazer seems to have been caught in a contradiction: https://xcancel.com/ElliotGlazer/status/1880809468616950187 Here he says that Epoch is "developing" a private test set that OpenAI doesn'
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> Meanwhile, we will see more focused efforts to create truly free generative AI systems, perhaps including the creation of one or more foundations to support the creation of the models I understand this will be free-as-in-beer and free-
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Your comment is abstract but the concrete reality is horrifying, and I am in fact objectively correct about everything I said. Hard to believe anyone who read the article would defend this, let alone in such a snotty and condescending way:
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There are two major differences between art generators and human artists: 1) human artists are legal persons and capable of being held liable in civil court for copyright infringement; having a machine with no legal standing do the copyrigh
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This is a despicable thing for a "therapist" to say: Marianne Brandon, a sex therapist, said she treats these relationships as serious and real. “What are relationships for all of us?” she said. “They’re just neurotransmitt
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
Especially when the results are so modest! "Significant" doesn't seem like unfalsifiable hype here, it's just wrong.
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I am using Safari on iOS - I disabled private relay and tested again, still seems oddly slow. No extensions; the settings to periodically delete cookies and block popups are enabled, don't see why those would affect this. Maybe it&#x27
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Under performing relative to what? If they're doing their job in good faith and overall making money for the company, is it "underperforming" if they're less productive than 95% of their peers? This notion of underperfo
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
> Below is Zuckeberg’s[sic] internal memo, which CNBC obtained. Meta is working on building some of the most important technologies of the world. AI, glasses as the next computing platform and the future of social media. It's
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It would be terrible for air pollution - this isn’t just a big pile of trash, it’s years of compacted municipal refuse that has to be excavated and pulled apart. If you dig through 100k tons of landfil, you will fill the surrounding air wit
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
The real issue with AlphaGo / MuZero is that it's still dramatically dumber than a dog, and not at all capable of understanding Go in the way a young child understands Go after playing a dozen games. These AIs are useful tools for
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
If this was about the boiling frog metaphor, people wouldn't be nearly this upset: the metaphor is obviously ignorant and therefore not very useful to describe the underlying concept of people getting used to discomfort. You'd hav
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
The point is that it's a racist and ignorant metaphor, and why would you want to cling to something ignorant and racist just because it occasionally makes for a good metaphor? There are other ways to make the same point (e.g. snake oil
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I would also like to see a PDF that has all the text in one place, presented linearly. This looks like a very worthwhile read, but waiting a few seconds for two paragraphs to load is a very frustrating user experience.
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
The first tweet is precisely why any honest person would conclude he's transphobic: those were private accounts and he abused his power as CEO to get that information. He publicly outed her out of pure transphobic spite, presumably hop
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
Adding an xcancel link for people who don’t have Twitter: https://xcancel.com/SybreWaaijer/status/1875230654054752374 The fact that they snoop on your revenue is pretty outrageous.
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I have given up on AI folks using a scientific definition of “world model,” yet I am still amazed at how viciously dishonest NVIDIA is being here: “Cosmos learns just like people learn,” the spokesperson said. “To help Cosmos learn, we
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
It is interesting that these ads are particularly targeted at women - maybe I am looking too much in to it, but I would guess there was (is) a big gender disparity with tobacco health concerns. These ads are quite different from the Marlbor
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
The content of the ad seems a bit on-the-nose given how much of Instagram is devoted to onanistic preening...
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Waymo spends a lot on human oversight, where remote operators make a lot of "common sense" decisions that don't require an immediate response and which AI is not yet capable of solving. Humans actually do a lot of the navigat
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> I think a fair thing to ask is if the force-directed layout engine is uniquely responsible for the leaf-like structure and this has nothing to do with the Von Neumann ordinals themselves. > To check this I generated some Collatz tre
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I'm very skeptical of books. I don't want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph bl
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
There are many topics that really can only be discussed with at book-length and with text, since the reader needs to think critically and be able to quickly reference other parts of the text in order to understand. "Get the information
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20 years of social media has turns you into a petty teenager. This stuff reeks of Sam Altman having uncontested power and being able to write whatever dumb shit he wants on openai.com. But it's not just OpenAI, Microsoft is also stunni
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by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
Nobody is saying “as hard if not harder,” that is 100% dishonest, and you know it’s dishonest. The claim is that the US Navy hasn’t faced much active combat over the last 80 years, and by comparison the Houthis’ guerrilla navy is formidable
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I think the README tacitly says "redstone is not supported" since those blocks have multiple states: Note that blocks with multiple states, orientations, or interactive blocks require large amounts of specialized code to make
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That seems to be university PR doing its "magic." The actual study is much more interesting: the humans weren't allowed to speak to each other, and pheromones wouldn't help the ants solve the problem, so both groups were
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The real problem is that this uses a very a crude and inadequate model for neurons: it ignores neurotransmitters, epigentics, or the dendritic complexity of cortical neurons. There’s no chance this system will ever come close to simulating

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