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by cmiles74 1y ago
This is an LLM advertised as functioning at a "doctorate" level in everything. I think it's reasonable to expect more than the high school classroom "good enough" explanation.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
It's very difficult to get caught, and then to prove wrongdoing, under the current rules. There has already been reporting of filing irregularities. https://www.newsweek.com/stock-act-congress-violations-tradi... Makin
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by cmiles74 1y ago
It seems like passing legislation that imposes harsher penalties for data breaches is the way to go.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
If this was a Hatch Act violation, I cannot imagine why the DOJ would not be shouting it from the rooftops.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
AccuWeather has been trying to privatize NWS since it's inception. I believe the current head of the NOAA was actually the AccuWeather CEO. IMHO, it's only a matter of time before he shuts off public access to NSW forecase data, n
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by cmiles74 1y ago
Understood. To your example about the logs, my concern would be be that the AI chooses the wrong thing to focus on and people decide there’s nothing of interest in the logs, thus overlooking a vital clue.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
Also, much less expensive to implement. Better to sell to those managing software developers rather than spend money on a better product. This is a tried-and-true process in many fields.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
There's no AI tool today that will resolve incidents to anyone's satisfaction. People need to be in the loop not only to take responsibility but to make sure the right actions are performed.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
I think this is a fundamentally different pursuit. The intellectual part was figuring out where the transistors would go, that's the part that took the thinking. Letting a machine do it just let's you test quicker and move onto th
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by cmiles74 1y ago
If that's truly the case then they should make it part of the product, IMHO.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
It’s their product, IMHO it’s their responsibility. They can pressure the upstream library developers (good luck with that) or submit a patch, or switch to another library. The “not my problem” attitude from these projects is likely another
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by cmiles74 1y ago
Agreed. They aren't converging on a statistical model of reality, they are converging on a statistical model of their training data. In the case of LLMs and the size of the training data it's possible they are also converging on s
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by cmiles74 1y ago
Many people are skeptical of LLMs today. Still, it's hard to argue that the non-technical population has the same level of interest in LLMs that they had in the internet back in the 90s.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
This whole comparison is weird. The internet opened doors of communication between people who were very distant from each other. It enabled new methods of commerce and it made it easier for people to research and purchase product. Anyone in
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by cmiles74 1y ago
Take a look at the judge’s ruling in this Anthropic case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44488331 Here’s a quote from the ruling: “First, Authors argue that using works to train Claude’s underlying LLMs was like using
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by cmiles74 1y ago
FWIW, I don’t think there is a prompt that would reliably produce, verbatim, a copyrighted work. I do think that a big part of the reason Anthropic downloaded millions of books from pirate torrents was because they needed that input data
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by cmiles74 1y ago
Google Music originally let people upload their own digital music files. The argument at the time was that whether or not the files were legally obtained was not Google’s problem. I believe Amazon had a similar service. https://w
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by cmiles74 1y ago
I have to disagree, without all the copyrighted input data there would be no output data for these companies to sell. This output data is the product and they are distributing it for dollars.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
For everyone arguing that there’s no harm in anthropomorphizing an LLM, witness this rationalization. They talk about training and learning as if this is somehow comparable to human activities. The idea that LLM training is comparable to a
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by cmiles74 1y ago
It’s very unlikely that Claude will verbatim reproduce an entire book from its training corpus. If that’s the bar, they are pretty safe in my opinion.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
Alright, let’s agree that good marketing resonates with the target market. ;-)
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by cmiles74 1y ago
Strong disagree here, the average person coming away with ideas that only vaguely intersect with the reality.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
Maybe the important thing is that we don't imbue the machine with feelings or morals or motivation: it has none.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
IMHO, anthrophormization of LLMs is happening because it's perceived as good marketing by big corporate vendors. People are excited about the technology and it's easy to use the terminology the vendor is using. At that point I thi
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by cmiles74 1y ago
We’re saying that “intent very much matters here” but when we are talking about people flashing headlights to warn others of a police-manned speed trap, we focus on the effects of the action. Isn’t the intention of the person flashing the
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by cmiles74 1y ago
A quick Google search will reveal that this not the case. Summaries of books or movies have no particular legal protection and the authors of those summaries may be sued by the owners of that content. https://1minutebook.com&#x2F
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by cmiles74 1y ago
Are you sure? Or are owners deciding not to sue because they are seeing some benefit? I believe copyright is always case-by-case. No one sues over plot summaries because they likely help sales. Summarize books or news articles with an LLM a
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by cmiles74 1y ago
This strikes me as a weak example, I think it's clear that it's way too cumbersome to read an entire novel by asking an LLM to dictate it. IMHO, a better example would be the AI generated summaries provided by Google. Often these
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by cmiles74 1y ago
Being able to drop Docker Desktop would be great. We're using Podman on MacOS now in a couple places, it's pretty good but it is another tool. Having the same tool across MacOS and Linux would be nice.
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by cmiles74 1y ago
The field where LLMs are most successful, software development, is also a place where many software developers are paid to use LLMs. I have colleagues who are reluctant to express their skepticism publicly for just this reason.

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