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by demibabs 2mo ago
The article wasn’t written by Tao.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
I like how FT makes me accept cookies from their 46 “technology” (advertising) partners before showing me that the article is behind a paywall anyway.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
I feel like having any existing context absolutely poisons the ability to go in a different direction. I’m not sure if there’s a good way to fix this.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
Damn, we’re even having Claude write important press releases now
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by demibabs 2mo ago
> or via software-level jailbreak of the device. I’m surprised that even Apple calls jailbreaking, jailbreaking. Doesn’t that imply their own software is a jail?
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by demibabs 2mo ago
Even tech giants are putting out articles seemingly fully written by Claude.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
Off-topic but the banner picture for this article is really cute.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
Some battles are won at the domain registry.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
What happens if there are no more humans in the loop, and instead of building on human work, models have to build on their own work? Would we get stuck in a local maxima? When AI labs talk about “long-horizon tasks”, they mean tasks on the
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by demibabs 2mo ago
Yet if you overestimated the mileage you would’ve been none the wiser!
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by demibabs 2mo ago
As much as I dislike flock, this only seems like an indictment on the police.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
> TLDR: AI is really good at detecting deceptive adverts - why isn’t Google using it? I have the same question regarding “why is Workday’s resume parser so shit?”
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by demibabs 2mo ago
You can clearly see the side effects of the models being trained on Reddit content.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
I’m not the biggest fan of Ed Zitron, but something he said that stuck with me is: OpenAI and Anthropic spend much time warning us about “what if powerful AIs got into the wrong hands?” But it’s already in the wrong hands.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
> Each task comes from a private production codebase that we licensed from a real-world company How does that work?
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by demibabs 2mo ago
Doesn’t it ultimately have to be this way, to prevent saturation?
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by demibabs 2mo ago
Can you elaborate?
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by demibabs 2mo ago
> the reasons are so they can track who you are and sell your profile advertising. What? Like they weren’t doing this before? Obviously Google’s telemetry is tracking every link you click regardless; there’s no extra tracking benefit to
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by demibabs 2mo ago
JavaScript is required to use Google search at all, no?
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by demibabs 2mo ago
I think it would be depressing in its own way if this technology just ended up being regulated out of existence.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
But what’s stopping Google from doing this already?
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by demibabs 2mo ago
Can someone explain why this matters? Not being flippant I just don’t understand why this would be important.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
> Generation scales with spend, review does not, and that asymmetry is the whole design problem. I see you guys have a blog post factory as well.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
They already told the NYT that they’ve made “substantial progress” on another one of the MP Problems (most likely the Hodge Conjecture). That said, that’s probably just because of the drama miring their most recent one. After 2 I don’t see
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by demibabs 2mo ago
> I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below I wonder if there’s a Fields Medalist group chat.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
Thanks, I was wondering why they would be using Salesforce in the cockpit
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by demibabs 2mo ago
I still don’t understand what a “software factory” is. Can someone clue me in?
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by demibabs 2mo ago
Good article
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by demibabs 2mo ago
"It's just" is usually an annoying way to start a comment.
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by demibabs 2mo ago
I’m well aware of the dispute, and OpenAI’s conduct has definitely been less than respectable. But when the central claim of the argument (that OpenAI and the researchers solved the same problem) is completely false, it’s hard to take the a

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