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by daveguy 1y ago
This is an excellent point. How we choose to use and interact with AI is an individual and stochastic collective. We can still choose not to give AI control.
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by daveguy 1y ago
You are confusing organoids with "growing a brain". Organoids are a handful of cells of a given type derived from pluripotent stem cells and growing together. A neural organoid is nothing at all like a brain -- not even a brain sl
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by daveguy 1y ago
Thank you for this. A very well stated explanation of a major reason the hype is soo off base from the people doing the work every day.
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by daveguy 1y ago
Hahaha. 1000% this. Also, first example from the linked video: a "not vibe coded, promise" example of an ascii space invaders clone... Of all the examples of "has a bunch of training code data since the 80s", this is the
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by daveguy 1y ago
> Satya says: "I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software". Well, that makes sense to me. Microsoft's software has gotten noticably wo
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by daveguy 1y ago
I hope he writes a personal essay about the experience after he leaves Microsoft. Not that he will leave anytime soon, but the first hand accounts of how they are talking about these systems internally are going to be even more entertaining
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by daveguy 1y ago
This is just false. Do these models even have reproducible outcomes with a temperature of 0? Aren't they also severely restricted with a temp of 0?
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by daveguy 1y ago
Well, same statement applies. Rolling back commits is also O(1) and just as easy. And if you branch to start with it's not even a "rollback" through the commit history, it's just a branch switch. Feel like OP has never u
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by daveguy 1y ago
Why not create a branch and rollback only what needs to be rolled back? Branches are O(1) with git, right?
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by daveguy 1y ago
(not GP) To be fair, just because someone says something doesn't mean they believe it. Most of those folks have to know they're being absurd. But I agree saying "nobody" thinks something is over the top. People on the in
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by daveguy 1y ago
The post you replied to was asking for examples based on the general critical discussions they have seen. And no offense to the GP, but they clearly aren't an expert in the field or they wouldn't be asking. Probably should have re
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by daveguy 1y ago
This is incorrect. Machine Learning is a term that refers to numerical as opposed to symbolic AI. ML is a subset of AI as is Symbolic / Logic / Rule based AI (think expert systems). These are all well established terms in the fiel
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by daveguy 1y ago
I've never seen an AI critic say AI isn't "useful in any field whatsoever". Especially one that is known as an expert in and a critic of the field. There may be names that aren't coming to mind because that stance w
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by daveguy 1y ago
I'm having trouble finding the source code.
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by daveguy 1y ago
The state of LLMs right now seems analogous to the state of CAD software. There are free options available but they aren't as capable. The good part about this analogy is that the needs of the users aren't very dynamic -- if you a
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by daveguy 1y ago
The simulation didn't cover the problem that the US is having right now -- intentional miscommunication. Unfortunately, there's a reason some countries employ warehouses full of trolls and propaganda spreaders. If you are losing t
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by daveguy 1y ago
I wish I had a nickel for every time an AI hypester complained about goalposts. I thought it was clear that I was talking about AGI, or a general purpose intelligence on the level of humans. You know, what the hypesters have been saying is
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by daveguy 1y ago
WSL is massively slower than Linux. Not just the 10% or so for VM, but probably 50-90% slower for disk access. It takes many times longer to start tmux. It has update bugs that crash open terminals and that's not even part of the regul
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by daveguy 1y ago
Stop anthropomorphizing LLMs. You are contributing to the hype and eventual winter / AI backlash.
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by daveguy 1y ago
It should have told you it has no concept of A or not-A, doesn't perform anything close to thinking, and was just picking the most likely words to follow the prompt and context window both times. The people who program it weren't
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by daveguy 1y ago
Unfortunately we are much farther from growing a human brain than we are from a scaling up an LLM to a 29 megawatt-consuming behemoth. With growing a brain, we barely know where to begin. Not in terms of growing a few neurons in a petri dis
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by daveguy 1y ago
The human brain runs on about 20 watts of power -- the entire body on 80 watts (at rest). Those numbers are at least good within an order of magnitude. The largest supercomputer consumes 29 megawatts of power for 1.7 exaflops. And the large
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by daveguy 1y ago
> LLMs are fantastic communicators, who will mirror their audience in an attempt to be better understood, but... This seems to represent a complete misunderstanding of what LLMs are and do. There is not a single LLM that "attempts&q
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by daveguy 1y ago
Yup. It's literally the primary use for crypto.
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by daveguy 1y ago
... literally ducked. Crypto is a beautiful platform for money laundering. Why do you think Trump loves it so much?
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by daveguy 1y ago
... and once the crypto is transferred. Poof, you're ducked.
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by daveguy 1y ago
To be fair, all AI/ML and even statistical methods are bad at extrapolating.
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by daveguy 1y ago
Wait, are you saying a public record of every penny ever deposited to or withdraw from any given account might be a bad thing?
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by daveguy 1y ago
SFTP protocol includes checksum hashing on each packet sent. So corruption from the network is very unlikely (as it is also encrypted). On the write to disk side, you are probably best off using ZFS or btrfs as the filesystem. These contain
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by daveguy 1y ago
Nope. That's not at all what I'm saying. It's just not officially a coup until they refuse to cede power. We know they are very capable of it (already tried it once). In the meantime they are sowing chaos and destroying insti

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