caddemon

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by caddemon 3y ago
Interesting, I had a human quit, surprised bots might quit as well.
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by caddemon 3y ago
Yeah I fully agree about compute cost, though I wonder why they don't just introduce another payment tier. If people are really using it at work as much as claimed online, it would be much preferable to be able to pay more for the full
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by caddemon 3y ago
Ok I have to add one more thing that's funny since I just played a couple more times: if your conversational partner is a human and they exit the window mid-chat, it still lets you vote.
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by caddemon 3y ago
Additionally, I'd like to know how they corrected for this: "In a creative twist, many people pretended to be AI bots themselves in order to assess the response of their chat partners" Assuming it actually was "many peop
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by caddemon 3y ago
After playing the game they used (linked at top of article) I find it hard to draw much conclusion from this study. There is a quite short timer on not only the entire conversation, but on each response you can type. When the timer runs out
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by caddemon 3y ago
I think the main problem is not in itself incentivizing papers or using papers as a metric. The problem is that they're in many ways the only thing incentivized and the only metric given serious consideration. And the general expectati
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by caddemon 3y ago
Fair enough, I think it's realistic that an actual change is part of the effect with the ChatGPT interface, because it has gotten so much attention from the general public. Azure probably fits that somewhat as well. I just don't r
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by caddemon 3y ago
The API though? That's mostly used by technical people and has the capability (supposedly) of querying different model versions, including the original GPT4 public release.
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by caddemon 3y ago
Yeah there are people ITT claiming that even the API model marked as 3/14 release version is different than it used to be. I guess that's not entirely outside the realm of possibility (if OpenAI is just lying), but I think it&#x27
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by caddemon 3y ago
I can understand why they might make changes to ChatGPT, but it seems weird they would "nerf" the API. What would be the incentive for OpenAI to do that?
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by caddemon 3y ago
Yeah I think it's plausible it's gotten worse but it would also be classic human psychology to perceive degradation because you start noticing flaws after the honeymoon effect wore off. Unfortunately this will be hard to benchmark
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by caddemon 3y ago
Do you consider card counting cheating? Seeing gambling as paid entertainment is certainly the healthier attitude for the vast majority of people, but at the same time it's not like everyone who is able to make a consistent profit gamb
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by caddemon 3y ago
To contribute to fundamentally new knowledge in software or CS also can require quite a lot of background learning though. I think the bigger culprit is that biomedical studies are fucking expensive. There needs to be a big upfront commitme
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by caddemon 3y ago
Sure, DA may not be the major issue on a fully objective level. But his point that "police suck" does not explain why SFPD is so bad relative to other cities still stands. If it's purely a police force problem, what makes SF
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by caddemon 3y ago
Well if we're going to be so reductive I don't think they were ever productive for society to begin with. How many people do we really need working on targeted advertisements and algorithms for social media engagement?
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by caddemon 3y ago
They're not talking about the general population, they're talking about a niche career where salaries are in large part driven by performance-related bonuses. "On Wall Street" is perhaps too generic, and sure talent will
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by caddemon 3y ago
I mean it is a problem for researchers though. The blatantly fake paper mill ones (which seem to be the topic of this article anyway) aren't, but scientific fraud or even just minor misconduct from people that know how to mask it can w
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by caddemon 3y ago
There's also a difference between outright fake science i.e. lies/fabricated data in the manuscript and bad science i.e. the conclusions drawn by the authors were always "fake" because of bad practices but if you look at
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by caddemon 3y ago
Is this headline really deceitful though? Certainly the research is flawed, but the statement "[bad thing] is alarmingly common" is basically just a subjective statement that lets you know what position the author is going to argu
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by caddemon 3y ago
IDR which lecture it was but there's a timely Monica Lewinsky joke somewhere in here. Small things but I appreciate when profs are allowed to have fun. Obviously Strang is also just an amazing teacher.
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by caddemon 3y ago
A lot of the top universities have majority of their profs caring almost exclusively about research though. I think MIT is (or at least was) a bit of an exception, where there was enough of a critical mass of profs that cared about teaching
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by caddemon 3y ago
You have a fold and a flip? Is it pretty seamless to switch which one you will use as your phone on a given day?
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by caddemon 3y ago
Foldables are emerging tech right now anyway, they're probably going to see way bigger improvements in other functionalities over the next 5 years than the iPhone has in the last 5 years. I think if you're buying a foldable at thi
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by caddemon 3y ago
Check out Samsung's zFlip form though. I think if foldables take over the small flip versions will always maintain enough of a market to also exist.
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by caddemon 3y ago
The price is not going to be that high in 5 years, and when the price becomes comparable with the latest iPhone that's going to have the potential to flip a totally different market segment to Android than would've previously cons
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by caddemon 3y ago
Dunno if they'll become ubiquitous, but I think various foldable forms will at least stick around as a viable market segment. Most early-ish adopters I know from the zFold and zFlip 3 generation are planning to get another when it&#x27
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by caddemon 3y ago
Not sure about the Fold 3, but the Flip 3 has been surprisingly durable for me. Dropped it multiple times getting out of Uber, fell off desk onto hardwood floor, etc. never with a case on and most recently without even the plastic screen pr
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by caddemon 3y ago
The primary purpose of Google Maps is navigation (including e.g. traffic detection)? You need location services on for navigation obviously but I don't see why the location history setting is a requisite functionality. I use Maps all t
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by caddemon 3y ago
The brain is definitely not doing gradient descent. That is the biggest issue with using artificial neural networks as a neuroscience modeling tool. The fact other learning algorithms have not come close to gradient descent performance in m
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by caddemon 3y ago
Deep in the trenches a lot of research these days is actually just pretty fucking useless. There are many, many results that unfortunately do not replicate in even slightly different situations. It's a very inefficient way to be search

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