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by bayeslaw 2y ago
Altman said we will be amazed at the rate AI will CURE diseases. Not diagnose, not triage or help doctors but cure, ie understand at a deep fundamental, mechanistic level then devise therapies, ie drugs, combination of drugs and care practi
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There are two kinds of truths
4 points by bayeslaw 2y ago|1 comments
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Most people on Hacker News don't want to live in the "Intelligence Age"(crowdprisma.com)
1 points by bayeslaw 2y ago|1 comments
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by bayeslaw 2y ago
Since my LinkedIn is full of people shilling for Sam Altman and his latest blog post - https://ia.samaltman.com/ - I read it and like many of you didn't like it for several reasons. However, I thought, instead of disse
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Life is a constrained optimization problem
2 points by bayeslaw 2y ago|0 comments
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I was wrong, GPT4 didn't kill our startup. It made it viable(crowdprisma.com)
3 points by bayeslaw 2y ago|1 comments
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by bayeslaw 2y ago
More than a year ago (when MS announced that it will introduce copilot in all of its office suite) I posted here. I said (with total conviction) that our bootstrapped, two-man NLP/AI company is now doomed and GPT4 will basically solve
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
Those layoffs are the totally necessary consequences of the idiotic COVID overhiring these tech firms did and if you zoom out the problem is still the opposite: too many jobs are chasing too few job seekers. https://www.economist
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
What layoffs? The labour market is still the tightest it's ever been almost everywhere.. don't get hn myopia from a few react developers being fired and whining here..
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
That's a nice false dichotomy right there...
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Ignore the “AI Guy”
6 points by bayeslaw 3y ago|8 comments
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
I don't think we'd need that, but thanks for the feedback.
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
ok so you have to - steal an ID or forge one - deep fake the person on the ID (at least a 10sec video) - then you'll pay a monthly fee - since there's no API you'll need to pay troll farms to use these accounts I'd say t
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
1 or 2 $ / month is actually more than enough to run a profitable and great company if you have hundreds of thousands of users. Not everything needs to IPO or be called a unicorn or whatever.
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
not trying to be facetious but are you really suggesting that "scammers" will kidnap ppl, and photograph them next to their ID (which they also conveniently have), just to sign up to a social network (where they have to pay a mont
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
how do you put a real human face next to a stolen id? not sure you understand what verification means
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
care to elaborate?
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
both. there will be private groups (think group on Facebook) and open chats (think here or Reddit)
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Ask HN: Would you pay for a verified-only social network?
11 points by bayeslaw 3y ago|41 comments
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
OP here: how would that actually work? Writing an email to them, saying: "hey do you wanna buy some source code?" seems the only (but also bad) way :D
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
OP here: funny you should say that.. I did EF actually (and ended up with a similar story, i.e. failed startup :D see https://danielhomola.com/startups/learning/my-startup-failed... ) Anyways, I'd never do an
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
OP here: yeah.. basically this.
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
OP here.. yeah, these are all great suggestions and we considered them at length (even validated some)... the problem is, before GPT, building a deployable (i.e. not just academic paper but something that actually works) NLP pipeline was fa
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by bayeslaw 3y ago
Basically MS is putting this into Office, and Google doing the same.. in a year's time this tech will be basically free to use for anyone w a computer and it's excel anyways where they gather their feedback from the surveys.. why
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GPT4 killed our little startup(crowdprisma.com)
29 points by bayeslaw 4y ago|45 comments
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by bayeslaw 4y ago
We're shutting down CrowdPrisma, a bootstrapped applied AI company that was formed two years ago by my friend and I (both ML engineers) to solve free-text survey analysis. A ton of really important information can only be gathered by o
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by bayeslaw 6y ago
as so many time recently the hn crowd proves to be completely clueless and uneducated when it comes to ai.. this is a miracle.. it is THE achievement we'll remember from the past decade when it comes to ai.. if you don't understan
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by bayeslaw 6y ago
oh that and the worst post war debt coupled with unprecedented economic downturn..
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by bayeslaw 6y ago
fantastic news. only Brexit left then to sort out in less than a month
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by bayeslaw 6y ago
how do these children like idiots get funded and be in charge of 200 ppl? this mindset is criminally short sighted..

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