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by cs702 1y ago
Sorry if my comment came across as pedantic. That was definitely not my intention!
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My immediate thought is that commerce mediated by AI will quickly make "old-style" ad-tech feel non-intrusive by comparison. But, like it or not, here it comes.
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My mind immediately went here: Manager: "What's the rate of return according to our financial model?" Analyst: "Let me vibe the answer for you. Just a sec."
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For a description of the consequences of mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of individual behavior in a society, read: "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell.[a] --- [a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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The mafia hitman who dreamt of being a pop star(ft.com)
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Is AI driving US growth?(am.jpmorgan.com)
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I hope so too. Capital spending on AI appears to be holding up the entire economy: https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/adv/insights/...
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Yes. It's true that we don't know, with any certainty, (1) whether we are hitting limits to growth intrinsic to current hardware and software, (2) whether we will need new hardware or software breakthroughs to continue improving m
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I came here to flag the OP, which doesn't really belong on HN, but... the parent comment and your comment made me chuckle, so I changed my mind!
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I don't think it's been tried at scale, with large models. It remains to be seen if it works better than conventional training schemes.
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TL;DR: The OP notes that we currently use all sorts of tricks of the trade, including applying normalization layers, to keep unit values in DNNs from getting too large or too small when we train them. Keeping unit values from getting too la
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The Wrong Kind of Mathematics(ft.com)
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I sorta knew much of what the author writes, but it's still a bit shocking to see it laid out, in hard numbers, that many consumers at the lower end of the income spectrum no longer matter in the US economy: > What we do see are
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Missing from his analysis: * The potential impact of humanoid robots currently in development.[a] What happens in the US, in Europe, in China, and other countries if (when) anyone can buy/lease a humanoid robot that speaks human langua
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I take it that indiscriminately cutting government spending "with a chainsaw"[a] didn't work like he expected. Sigh. [a] https://apnews.com/article/milei-argentina-chainsaw-fed35a37...
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I'd agree that too much concentration of power in any single organization, public or private, without any checks or balances, is a bad idea. As the saying goes, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Historically, the
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The cost of developing GPT-2 and GPT-3 was on the order of millions of dollars, well within the budget of most tech organizations. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 for the total compute invested in them. OpenAI had
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by cs702 1y ago
Great response. Yes, in some cases concentration may be desirable. However, I'm not persuaded it was necessary in the specific cases you mention: * Waymo: EVs were repeatedly killed by corporations highly in concentrated industries
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Great post, thought-provoking. Highly recommended. Interestingly, in the past, the US federal government actively made efforts to keep private organizations from becoming too dominant. Here are just a few examples, from memory: * The Bell s
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Trump's H-1B visa caper will backfire (Michael Moritz)(ft.com)
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Interesting. The Pew Research linked to by the OP has a lot more detail: https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/20... This passage, in particular, is eye-opening: > ... had SROs [single-
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It's not exactly the same, but I'm reminded of Nortel Networks and Lucent Technologies, two makers of networking and telecom equipment that grew very rapidly during the dotcom bubble, in the mid to late 1990s, and subsequently got
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That's why my comment was conditional (emphasizing the "if" here, for clarity): "... if people and organizations continue to adopt AI systems for more and more tasks". If people and organizations don't do tha
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The winner for Psychology made me think, for a moment, about HN: "Telling people they are intelligent correlates with the feeling of narcissistic uniqueness: The influence of IQ feedback on temporary state narcissism," by Marcin
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The paper's title is too clickbaitish for my taste, but its subject is important: How should we rethink query interfaces, query processing techniques, long-term data stores, and short-term data stores to be able to handle the greater v
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Thankfully the other species is not human beings, as in the Alien movies! More seriously, what those ants are doing is kind of unbelievable.
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State media (owned, operated, or significantly influenced by the government)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Direct link: https://ibm.com/roadmaps/client-value.pdf Yeah, that's some seriously ultra-processed corporate-speak mumbo-jumbo. I upvoted the OP only because of your comment. Many others on HN will, like me, sco
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What the Justice Minister means is that electronic privacy should not be a civil liberty. Perhaps he doesn't realize that making encrypted messaging illegal is the same as making it illegal to share sequences of decimal digits of tra
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by cs702 1y ago
Here's the approach I've seen so far at a few startups: 1. Replace junior developers with AI, reducing costs today. 2. Wish and hope that senior developers never retire in the future. 3. ?

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