bonoboTP

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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
Indeed, including some AI generated things is becoming a costly signal that you're not bound by the neoluddites and the online anti-AI mob / redditor hivemind. I'm starting to like this signal, but it has to be distinguished
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It's like styrofoam stucco on the ceiling. Decoration and ornament have served always to signal extra effort that went into something, signaling that it is considered important and valued by the maker/owner. But people also have i
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
Expert systems didn't use neural nets or in fact any machine learning. They did interviews with experts and tried to do domain modeling, mapping the expertise to a formal symbolic logical description, ontologies, relations etc. Both th
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
Yes. I've actually added some features to Blender like this, related to some highly specific use case. Just clone the source point an agent at it, say what you'd want (you have to be able to formulate this in a halfway coherent wa
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
For real work yes. For personal projects, less and less since Fable came out (probably the same if true of the other frontier models). You can get a lot done if it's just some one off, or a personal tool, even without looking at the co
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
> Machines absolutely will struggle with what to study, what theorems are desirable, and when do be done with a proof And why do you think this would be the case? I'm not talking about today but in 1-2 years. For reference o1 was r
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
I don't think AI use is supposed to replace foundational learning such as reading a C++ book or Python book or CSS tutorial when you're a beginner. You still have to do those things if you want to be a professional or a strong ama
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
It's because in many cases it exactly sounds like what happened. They asked something one shot, then seeing that the AI didn't quite solve the same task that the prompter had in mind, he just closes it and decides that AI is stupi
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
I think it's the same thing as it was with googling. "Oh you're such a wizard problem solver, how did you fix my printer??" "I just typed the most important words about the problem as you told it to me, the printer&
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
It depends on the levels. People with differing fitness levels and ages run at very different paces. Now, do cars make them more equal or less? On the bottom end, the tide lifts all boats. Most healthy people can learn to drive and will dri
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
Many, including myself, report having a lot of success with braindumping and not structuring anything. Just talking into speech recognition for 2-10 minutes as a stream of consciousness about what my context is, what I want, what I know alr
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How was it foreseeable? Expert systems worked on quite different principles. Knowledge representation, expert interviews, ontologies etc.
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He's simply a good phone number to have for journalists under time pressure who need to add the contrarian voice to their upcoming story. He delivers it reliably, then never reflects on how he was wrong in the past, just blasts forward
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
> thrives from having a community. Does it? I think a lot of software projects which are not as huge as the Linux kernel etc. thrive best with a tight core development team, and not from a "community" if you mean that word beyo
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
The two are correlated which does encourage that mistaken view. Github culture generally blends these two, having an open issue tracker, pull requests etc. as well as the code right there, often with a free license. But you can very much al
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
> I think that original vision of open source software is very much the exception and not the rule. RMS has never supported open source. And never emphasized software repositories or deployment or app stores or whatever. He is a proponen
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
> So comes the programmer as a translator. Why the translation itself takes some effort, but most of the intellectual works is understand the intent of the change request or the specs (nothing to do with the code) and grasping the semant
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
So which is it? Is the coding part easy or hard? If it's easy and the task is mainly all the song and dance with the client, the stakeholders, getting approval and whatnot, then AI can take care of that easy coding and at least save th
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
The point is that you have to have an idea of what it has access to in its context. Many expect it to work like an omniscient genie and then give up once it turns out that it can't read your mind and you have to be able to halfway-cohe
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
They learn again when the labs train the next version. The previous version often has an indispensable role in orchestrating that process, as a critic and from usage transcripts of the previous model that they have access to. And between tw
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
I'm in academic ML research. Coding is mostly scoped to myself. And it's often nontrivial. My communication is more in papers, reports on experimental results, deciding what to try next, but how the code is organized is rarely the
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
> Did you not do that before AI? It’s so strange to me when people are calling out these kind of tasks like they were not already a requirement for the job. What were you doing before? No, you didn't have to explicitly say it in wor
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
> We don't have sci-fi AI Current frontier models are absolutely sci-fi AI by any measure that existed up until the late 2010s. If you showed a current frontier agentic AI, with bidirectional speech, tool use etc. to a person from 2
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
People apparently can get a very different picture of the same site. Anti-AI people think this site's commenters are mostly pro-AI and vice versa. I'm generally pro-using-AI-in-proper-ways, and mostly have the impression that peop
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
Different context, different politeness rules. I bet you're fun at parties. An online forum is a relaxed space, like a town pub. HR isn't breathing down our necks here. Personal attacks are a different sort of thing. Using a word
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Right. I want an AI that sees my screen, sees my mouse cursor, has my audio transcript synced to the mouse movements, and it can similarly do TTS and and pointer movements or put things like circles and rectangles and background highlights
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
Right, it's just pretending to be able to delay the inevitable. It's like the assembly programmers of the 70s and 80s keeping their assembly-fu sharp. Yes it might come handy, and it's good to have a grasp of the concepts, bu
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Mweh, I'm not a native English speaker. It's a definitely existing archetype, though, just like "Spießbürger" points at a thing in German.
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The ones who get more productive are either the very incompetent who get pulled up to the AI-floor level, or the very competent who know when and how to use it and for what. The midwits are too proud to use it and instead placate themselves
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by bonoboTP 3mo ago
> You cant copyright style or facts, but somehow the combination of the two is what newspapers rely upon. You can start a shitty newspaper by looking at all the stories in some other newspaper, then writing about the same facts while imi

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