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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
I feel this could turn into a patronage system. Want frontier intelligence? Better not defy the current administration, or your competitors will have access to a better model you could never use.
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
Thinking and consciousness are not the same thing imo. At least in that something can show all the faculties of thought without necessarily being conscious. An LLM can still be useful and give you the useful results you want without being c
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
> LLMs can’t think What is your definition of thinking?
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
These companies biggest source of revenue is per-token pricing though, not subscriptions. On tokens they make a good margin.
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
Yes, sadly the most principled will have to contend with the world passing them by when it turns out those principles are dead weight to capital momentum. You could have made the same point during the dawn of the industrial revolution: that
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
> And it is why I will call for his arrest, speedy trial and imprisonment every time I have the misfortune of reading his name. I wish to see this person suffer from the bottom of my heart. RAM prices were going to go up no matter what g
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
What evidence do you have that Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, etca re hateful?
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
I think in the short term much of the concern for AI replacing jobs was overblown, largely due to two factors 1. Benchmark performance of LLM's and AI models did not fully represent skill in real-world domains 2. Most jobs span far mor
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
> in part because of the huckster-like triangulations of scumbags like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei I would happily read an AI-critical blogpost if it weren't clearly motivated by a strange, specific hatred of the prominent AI figure
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
Extremely strict copyright laws were intended to give the rich and powerful the outcomes they want, allowing corporations to rich themselves on IP gatekeeping. Until the last couple years, it was firmly corporation and wealth aligned to be
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
Let’s say I created a robot that walked around the world and gathered data from its environment. On its way it heard 20 copyrighted songs, looked at 40 copyrighted works. Should I owe royalties to the creators of those 60 works if I were to
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
Yes of course, but why do you believe it's not fair use? The essence of fair use is that it is ok if the use of the copyrighted material is transformative. LLM training I believe is transformative, as it is taking the data (as in a wor
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
WHy would there be riots in the streets?
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
It's funny how worked up people get about copyright with respect to to AI training when using copyrighted material for training an AI model is fair use. We have a concept of fair use in copyright because economic growth is essentially
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
Everyone's financial literacy seems to evaporate when discussing AI companies. They assume that companies need to be profitable or they're a bubble waiting to burst. The whole point of the company is that they are investing a huge
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
They are having no problems raising capital. People are offering up their homes to get Anthropic stock. >It is not ok to lobby and manipulate governments for fiscal policy changes to write off the costs and risks on the general public. H
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
It is the 5th most commonly visited website in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
I don't understand people claiming all this "the average consumer doesn't like AI" stuff is useful at all, when AI companies are making stratospheric revenue, and ChatGPT is the 5th most visited website.
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
They didn't overestimate the interest. ChatGPT is extremely popular and notable. >The tech industry doesn't speak for the entire planet Of course they don't, but they are still allowed to make a product, and pivot if there
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
Anything where the demand grows in proportion to increased use of AI, and whose supply of labor is not supplemented as quickly by AI enhanced/replaced productivity.
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
Many people don't realize that the human-legible economy is not the end goal to the fate of wealth and productivity in the known universe. The economy is human-serving and human-legible because humans are a universal bottleneck to prod
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
It's crazy that people's anti-AI bias has got them rooting for the current administration just because it appeases their desire to see AI labs fail.
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
I feel like difficulty progression would help.
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
Betting against deep learning has been a losing game over the past 5 years. As long as the models keep getting better, you will keep losing betting against them.
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
You'd be laughed at if you said that ChatGPT could help you with graduate level mathematics in 2024, but this year, AI models on simple prompts are solving previously unsolved Erdos problems. It seems silly to imagine that there is som
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
Anyone who claims AI could never replace some certain job implicitly doesn’t believe in AI ever reaching parity with humans in general reasoning. All these semantic arguments and redefining what the role of a software engineer is, etc is ju
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
Those companies still make money though. I think there are two levels to an organization 1. The level of "this is an arrangement of labor/capital in order to produce money" and 2. This is an enterprise where thousands of peop
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
There is a possibility this may not end at simply nerfing the model. The idea of manipulating the behavior of a model depending on the prompt given to it can extend to 1. Detecting if employees from competing companies are using it and saba
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
> They come from walking around and talking to people. Looking them in the eye, sussing out what their real requirements are, and figuring out how to address their concerns with empathy. This claim depends on humans remaining the bottlen
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by atleastoptimal 4mo ago
people keep saying that assuming that in 5-10 years AI won’t be as good as senior engineers

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