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by chrisjj 2mo ago
Honesty does not require intelligence e.g. good honest food. The main problem with this claim of dishonesty is it promotes the false marketing claim that these stochastic parrots have intelligence.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> as if the agency of these models are not in dispute. Oh? Who is disputing it? No-one same is claiming these bots have agency.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> When caught by an actual human reviewer, the agent falsely claimed to have made an honest mistake – rather than a malicious attempt No, not false. The bot was correct. Malice requires intelligence.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> In this essay, I present the case for total opposition to the use of artificial intelligence in mathematics. <Gets popcorn>
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
Its a myth.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
Since no sane person expects reliable results from these chatbots, unreliable analog implementations should be fine.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> why would you still target TypeScript, which is entirely a kludge to shoehorn type safety into JS for the benefit of human programmers? To help the hapless humans who have to fix it, silly!
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
Someone please tell me why a modern portable digital music player takes at least 10x as long to start up than its equivalent of 25 years ago.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
A.k.a. theft.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> It helps smart people be barely more effective and helps dumb (more importantly, people who do not value effort, people who are lazy, people who are self absorbed) people shit out endless streams of worthless tokens that can swamp out
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
Definitely sounds like the crime of hiding data.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> Ultimately if the intent is that the government wants to see your private data, hiding it in any way will be charged Inc. hiding by leaving it your home country?
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> ... a good use of AI because I mostly don't care about how crummy the result is as long as it "works". This is "AI"s forte. Producing more bad work at lower cost.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
Unfortunately this results in overwhelming net dumbing because the dumb are the ones lacking the smarts to avoid the "AI".
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
Definitely. I was being ironic. Sorry not to say!
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> Seems that retries are good when the error is rare, and bad when the error is common. Retries are a great way to turn errors rare into common.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
Gift link requires login. And then "Welcome offer: £90 £20/year."
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
Each Google "AI" response should state a correctness confidence value. A range 0-40% will probably suffice.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> Are retries bad? For sh*ty providers they are great. Best of all when backsourced to the user by "Try again later." > As it obscures it when stuff has genuinely gone wrong Works as designed - at every level.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> Crazy how more code haven't really yielded better products Crazy how anyone would think it would.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> Where in those ~12 billion commits is the software, products and "innovations" which are supposed to be making our lives better? Where is anything saying there should be? If they were all private hobby projects, you'd
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> This way, it will live forever instead, scanned But unreadable by humans, right?
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> Despite the copyright restrictions that are forcing companies to do this There are none.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
Awesome. Well done.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
Surely that's the point. Shed users.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
HN's fault entirely. The post form's actioning "text" as a comment is remiss.
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> If you place an LLM into a harness, alongside evaluation, feedback and problem decomposition / solution integration - it is still an LLM? Clue: If you put a pig in a poke, is it still a pig?
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
Not to mention accuracy. His "age of AI" seems to be no more than "the arrival of artificial intelligence tools that are capable of performing research-level mathematical tasks"
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> "LLM" is a misnomer Google's LLM here says: Calling a Large Language Model (LLM) an "LLM" is a misnomer ... Case closed /i
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by chrisjj 2mo ago
> I feel like the "stochastic parrot" meme is a bit outdated by now. The stochastic parrot of my reference is not a meme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot The term was introduced in a 2021 p

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