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by andy99 9mo ago
I’m convinced that some people are overly susceptible to the “preference optimized” nature of AI output and end up completely blind to its quality and usefulness. Not to say it’s useless garbage, there is some value for sure, but it’s nowhe
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by andy99 9mo ago
All the preamble about freedom and a fundamental right to truth is a bit counter to then making me sign in with google.
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by andy99 9mo ago
Thanks for the reply, it’s surprisingly fast then!
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by andy99 9mo ago
Does the cloudflare tunnel mean cloudflare is acting as a cdn and I’m actually getting the site served from them instead of the phone actually handling the request?
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by andy99 9mo ago
No idea if this is true but very sad if it is. This is a great argument for the concept of tenure, so experts can work on what they as experts deem important instead of being subject to the whims of leadership. I, probably naively pictured
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by andy99 9mo ago
And this feels like peak HN “why not just use a regex”. This is a hard, for all intents and purposes non deterministic problem. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to draft another post admonishing the use of curl | sh
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by andy99 10mo ago
Yeah if someone uses mid journey to do something unique, or even uses an editing model to make a specific picture for some purpose, that could be fine. On the other end of the spectrum is those yellow-tinged ChatGPT generated images that al
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by andy99 10mo ago
I think we’re looking at the same thing in different ways. But regardless I don’t know think a valid interpretation of classical how AI was classically depicted is as a transcript generator or an extension thereof. There’s still some notion
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by andy99 10mo ago
Having used both Tensorflow (though I expect they mean PyTorch which is way more popular, and I have also used) and langchain, they are nothing alike. They he ML frameworks are much closer to implementing the mathematics of neural networks,
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by andy99 10mo ago
That’s certainly not a legal principle of any kind. It’s like the 17 pieces of flair thing, if they want you to have more, they should tell you, we don’t need some weird unspoken guidelines related to licenses, it’s why we have the license.
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by andy99 10mo ago
I agree with this - I have often seen people get upset because someone used a project that was explicitly licensed to allow them to do whatever they wanted with it, with no obligation, in a way that they don’t like, or without doing somethi
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by andy99 10mo ago
Your argument makes no sense
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by andy99 10mo ago
Or maybe everyone feeling like they are being watched all the time (while simultaneously staring at their phones) is part of why people are drinking less? It’s a vicious cycle.
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Ask HN: Do typical computer monitors spy on you now?
3 points by andy99 10mo ago|1 comments
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by andy99 10mo ago
I just commented about this in another thread. I know there has been some walking back e.g. of the significance of a Turing test but I think overall the goalposts for AI have shifted in the other way, to narrowing down the definition of int
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by andy99 10mo ago
I think if you took an LLM of today and showed it to someone 20 years ago, most people would probably say AGI has been achieved. I’ve got to disagree with this. All past pop-culture AI was sentient and self-motivated, it was human
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by andy99 10mo ago
I don’t mean to imply it’s to get employees to accept lower pay. I mean that there is some implicit screening against people who are solely optimizing for high pay. Lots of reasons why you would want to simultaneously pay well and not attra
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by andy99 10mo ago
It’s not exploitive if you like working on it. I can see an additional upside here (for tinygrad) that they better screen out people who are just trying to optimize for job prospects or money, who would do better elsewhere, and get people w
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by andy99 10mo ago
That could make sense in some steady state regime where there were stable requirements and mature tech (I wouldn’t vote for it but I can see an argument). I see no argument why the government would jump into a hype cycle and start building
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by andy99 10mo ago
That’s not how LLMs work, it’s part of the reinforcement learning or SFT dataset, data labelers would have written or generated tons of examples using this and other patterns (all the emoji READMEs for example) that the models emulate. The
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by andy99 10mo ago
Is the title an ironic play on AI’s trademark writing style, is it AI generated, or is the style just rubbing off on people?
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by andy99 10mo ago
It’s been very effective watermarking compared to some of the more complicated and seemingly unsuccessful methods that have been proposed.
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by andy99 10mo ago
2023, and using some kind of in-page pdf reader from 2002
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by andy99 10mo ago
Unrelated to the articles main content I found this funny: The wave of experiments comes as the world’s largest professional network is recording huge traffic gains, making it a larger nexus for job hunters and business owners. Posting
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Why women on LinkedIn are masquerading as men(nationalpost.com)
1 points by andy99 10mo ago|4 comments
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by andy99 10mo ago
This is actually the most legit thing I can think of that could be behind an ad. It looks like an actual small business that is using ads as a replacement for the yellow pages, presumably when people are searching for party entertainment. I
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by andy99 10mo ago
I’m not saying society will remodel, I’m saying the typical white collar job is already mostly unnecessary busywork anyway, so automating part of that doesn’t really affect the reasons that job exists.
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by andy99 10mo ago
AI won’t replace knowledge workers, it will just give them different jobs. Pre AI, huge swaths of knowledge workers could just be replaced with nothing, they are a byproduct of bureaucratic bloat. But these jobs continue to exist. Most whit
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by andy99 10mo ago
If you’ve ever taken a sales or business or networking course, and seen the people that take the advice literally and act like creepy wooden weirdos, you know why. Business “skill” is intangible, partially luck obviously but partially “game
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by andy99 10mo ago
Well that’s embarrassing. I guess it’s possible to simultaneously think the internet is a net negative but embrace adding computer generated “slop” to it, maybe even a deliberate act of sabotage :) Still unfortunate.

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