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Apple is hitting back in the war over internet age-gating(theverge.com)
1 points by chriskanan 1y ago|0 comments
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by chriskanan 1y ago
What I do is to always set the context by giving the my "background" and some papers as reading material such that I've conditioned the model for whatever topic that will be discussed as the first step.
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by chriskanan 1y ago
They address this in the AlphaEvolve paper: "While AI Co-Scientist represents scientific hypotheses and their evaluation criteria in natural language, AlphaEvolve focuses on evolving code, and directs evolution using programmatic evalu
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by chriskanan 1y ago
If they only studied remote work around the time of COVID, I'm not sure if findings will generalize. I think the pandemic caused a lot of people to reassess their lives and careers, and I don't know if increases in new venture cre
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by chriskanan 1y ago
My dishwasher from the 1990s dried much better than the one I got in 2021, which required rinsing each dish after washing to get rid of the soap taste. It then broke after only 1.5 years. My new one is better, but still leaves dishes pretty
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by chriskanan 1y ago
I've been thinking deeply about a lot of the same topics via teaching a course on AGI this semester (defining it, conflicting definitions, socioeconomic impact, etc. That said, I disagree with him vehemently regarding some of his opini
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"Godfather of AI" shares prediction for future of AI, issues warnings [video](youtube.com)
1 points by chriskanan 1y ago|1 comments
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by chriskanan 1y ago
This is exactly how I feel. I use an AI powered email client and I specifically requested this to its dev team a year ago and they were pretty dismissive. Are there any email clients with this function?
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by chriskanan 1y ago
That was my initial reaction as well, but I think that isn't fair upon looking more closely. Equation 1 of their paper is a unifying equation such that different choices for the terms result in the various classical and new algorithms.
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by chriskanan 1y ago
From an outsider's perspective who has studied the history of science, it does feel a bit like the majority of the cosmology community refuses to consider alternative explanations that may also be consistent with observations but don&#
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by chriskanan 1y ago
I think this is the first time I've posted an article that has been flagged, especially given that the source is the journal Science. As a professor working in AI, I'll probably be fine, but if I cannot get funding it will be chal
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NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review(science.org)
104 points by chriskanan 1y ago|73 comments
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by chriskanan 1y ago
I think this is at least a major part of the problem, and I share this hypothesis (and have been saying as much for the past two years). We never train them to know what they know and what they don't know (meta-cognition). We only trai
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The Entire Universe Could Exist Inside a Black Hole – Here's Why(sciencealert.com)
8 points by chriskanan 1y ago|3 comments
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by chriskanan 1y ago
Cutting of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope [1] seems incredibly shortsighted and wasteful. It is set to launch in 2027, and is designed to answer basic questions about dark energy [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by chriskanan 2y ago
This is my favorite introductory machine learning theory (statistical learning theory) book, which is far more accessible than many others.
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by chriskanan 2y ago
Being a super wealthy alum is a prerequisite for being a Trustee, and University Trustees are the group that University Presidents report to.
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by chriskanan 2y ago
Given that all other major countries, including China, are heavily investing in AI, it is essential for the USA to invest in this space, otherwise the USA would be at a severe competitive disadvantage in just about every category. As an AI
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Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks(arxiv.org)
2 points by chriskanan 2y ago|0 comments
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by chriskanan 2y ago
I use them everyday and they save me so much time and enable me to do things that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise just due to the amount of time it would take. I think some people just aren't using them correctly or don't
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Tao: Using test-time compute to train efficient LLMs without labeled data(databricks.com)
29 points by chriskanan 2y ago|2 comments
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by chriskanan 2y ago
Here is an example for data-efficient vision transformers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12511 Vision transformers have a more flexible hypothesis space, but they tend to have worse sample complexity than convolutional ne
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by chriskanan 2y ago
Depends on what angle you are interested in. If you are interested in continual learning for something like mitigating model drift such that a model can stay up-to-date where the goal is attain speed ups during training see these works: Com
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by chriskanan 2y ago
Hallucinations is a terrible term for this. We want models that can create new ideas and make up stories. The problem is that they will give false answers to questions with factual answers, and that they don't realize this. In humans,
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by chriskanan 2y ago
As a leader in the field of continual learning, I somewhat agree, but I'd say that catastrophic forgetting is largely resolved. The problem is that the continual learning community largely has become insular and is mostly focusing on t
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by chriskanan 2y ago
I 100% agree with this and sampling from thought space rather than "thinking" in terms of language. I spent forever writing up an NSF grant proposal on exactly this idea and submitted it last May. I haven't heard back, but it
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by chriskanan 2y ago
A lot of the responses seem to be answering a different question: "Why does LeCun think LLMs won't lead to AGI?" I could answer that, but the question you are asking is "Why does LeCun think hallucinations are inherent i
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Is Every Civilization Doomed to Fail? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by chriskanan 2y ago|1 comments
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by chriskanan 2y ago
Until I watched this video, I hadn't heard of anacyclosis theory, which greatly informed the thinking of some of the founders of the USA's Constitution. The theory proposes that democracies tend to dissolve when a populist demagog
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by chriskanan 2y ago
I agree with everything in your comment about regulation. However, if you are implying that only companies, and not nations, can fail and be replaced, I'd disagree. This has happened many times in the past. I really liked this history

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