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by comfysocks 3y ago
So will the tech giants go back to hiring everyone and parking them to create a talent mote against startups that might disrupt them? The business press never seems to mention that.
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by comfysocks 4y ago
But haven’t we seen examples of generative art that are substantially similar to original artwork and examples where AI regurgitates blocks of art (with watermarks!?)
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by comfysocks 4y ago
Like every new technology that came before, it’s a tool that will be used for good and for nefarious purposes. Some tools are powertools. There will be new benefits, but be prepared for a new raft of modern problems.
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by comfysocks 4y ago
I think they wanted to keep public attention on this technology “positive” for as long as possible by curating the art that becomes public. Long enough to position themselves profitably. Eventually this technology will serve as a window in
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by comfysocks 5y ago
Anyone who's worked on a software development "death march" has heard similar motivating speeches from their PM. Something along the lines of "Work harder, give up your weekends and evenings... (so that I can get promot
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by comfysocks 5y ago
I was not trying to make any comment on what China should or should not do. Clearly, they are doing what their leaders consider to be best for themselves in the long run. Rather, I was commenting on what I consider to be unrealistic views
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by comfysocks 5y ago
I think you are misreading me. I am not trying to suggest they work in the same way, simply that they have the same overall task, which I consider to be a very difficult problem. To your second point, I think we might agree that in order t
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by comfysocks 5y ago
These other algorithms would be part of the "larger system built around it" that I mention. This larger system has the task of doing what human judgement does.
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by comfysocks 5y ago
When we design classical control systems, the performance limitations are well understood. If we do not exceed the limits, we expect the system to be well behaved. By contrast, DNN/CNN based systems can be a bit of a black box. We c
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by comfysocks 5y ago
I think a big part of the anti-digital backlash was due to the fact that many early Compact Disc albums sounded terrible. They had a big budget for their original analog production, but the record companies cheaply repurposed their back ca
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by comfysocks 5y ago
Indeed, without a good audio reference it might be difficult to tell if the additional harmonics on a note played by a violin are the result of harmonic distortion or simply a more "harmonically rich" violin.
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by comfysocks 5y ago
Thanks for posting this. All of the knee-jerk comments are hurting my mind.
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by comfysocks 5y ago
To the people who are arguing some variation of "Colonialism is actually a net GOOD for the colonized people!!"[1], I'd like to point out that this us NOT really an example of the "economic West" [2] colonizing Chin
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by comfysocks 5y ago
Reminds me of the Wells Fargo scandal. And when it all hits the fan, blame and fire the "bad apples" (low level employees), not the people who created the incentive system that turned thousands of low wage earners into "bad a
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by comfysocks 5y ago
Also, traditional media is an open discourse. Facebook is network where only chosen eyes see certain messages, thus an echo chamber.
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by comfysocks 5y ago
Agreed, it isn't. Would it be better if GP said "two far-right tabloids and one that isn't, but sometimes gets co-opted by the far-right?"
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by comfysocks 5y ago
I too am against hate speech (who isn't?), yet that doesn't mean I am for taking prohibition of hate speech to absurd extremes. I'm also against child pornography (who isn't?), yet I am against those that use fear of chi
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by comfysocks 5y ago
At work, we're trained to examine the _whole_ trade space with no forgone conclusions. To make trade studies rationally, not emotionally. To consider the needs of all relevant stake holders, not just your favorite cohort. Imagine if
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by comfysocks 5y ago
Maybe it's something like Elon Musk and his "no LIDAR" thing.
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by comfysocks 5y ago
I think the humanoid aspect helps lay-people (and hedge fund managers) stay confused as to what the current scope of AI is. When people see humanoids, they think AGI, not DNNs.
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by comfysocks 5y ago
The way I imagine it, Elon made Andrej put in that slide about "We are effectively building a 'synthetic animal' from the ground up." It vaguely hints at a small-scale AGI. A little bit of Andrej's soul dies when
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by comfysocks 5y ago
Amazon is the company that created a button you can push to reorder toilet paper. It takes all of the friction out ordering from them, and gives you the option to purchase right at the moment of greatest need. FOCUS is a "button"