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AI and the Death of Student Writing(chronicle.com)
5 points by dougb5 2y ago|2 comments
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by dougb5 2y ago
OpenAI isn't storing the requests, according to the announcements, so I presume they're not going to train on this data?
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by dougb5 2y ago
"Professor Nabila El-Bassel at Columbia University is leading an initiative to integrate AI into community-based strategies to reduce overdose fatalities. Her team built a GPT that analyzes and synthesizes large datasets to inform inte
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by dougb5 2y ago
> The American dream is the belief that anyone can be successful if they are smart enough and work hard enough Silicon Valley has practically symlinked the word "successful" to "started a company that got a high valuation&
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Search Canadian city council meetings(civicsearch.org)
1 points by dougb5 2y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 2y ago
Hey that LLM is trained on everything we've ever produced, so I wouldn't say we've been "reduced", more like copied. I'll save my self-loathing for when a very low-parameter model can do this.
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by dougb5 2y ago
There is absolutely bad publicity when you already have the world's most valuable brand ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_valuable_brands )
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by dougb5 2y ago
I was stressed and angered by the ad, and I think I get through life fine, otherwise -- or at least, I can't think of another ad in the past decade that has caused me this reaction. It wouldn't be as bad if it were detached from
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by dougb5 2y ago
"What accounts send the replies? We send the replies from our pool of high quality Twitter and Reddit accounts." I wonder what they could mean by "high quality" here. And I'm guessing/hoping that these accou
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SFist Critique of City Campus and California Forever(sfist.com)
1 points by dougb5 2y ago|0 comments
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Compound Your Joy: Test your knowledge of English phrases(onelook.com)
1 points by dougb5 2y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 2y ago
"It’s pretty amazing that a reporter can write with a straight face that people eating less Doritos and Oreos is a ‘mounting concern’!" This is a really bad-faith interpretation of what the reporter said. The "mounting conce
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by dougb5 2y ago
"...conventional wisdom that AI, while good at providing fast answers, is terrible at referring users to where they want to go" I don't understand why we'd care about referral metrics in this context. Do people use chat
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by dougb5 2y ago
Well it's a big deal to me. OpenAI have not conducted themselves in a way that makes me want to share my search intents with them, and I don't care if they or DDG tell me that what I tell them "won't be used to train AI
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by dougb5 2y ago
"Welcome to DuckDuckGo AI Chat! This chat session is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo. All of your chats here are private, and are never stored by DuckDuckGo or used to train AI models." Wait, they are sent to OpenAI but they are
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Finding Mentions of Local Places in City Council Meetings(medium.com)
1 points by dougb5 2y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 3y ago
The lessons I wanted from this article weren't in there: Did all of that expenditure actually help their product in a measurable way? Did customers use and appreciate the new features based on LLM summarization compared to whatever
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by dougb5 3y ago
Read more entries, then. You'll find that it's a labor of love, if you're curious. And it is a dictionary, yes. https://greensdictofslang.com/about/
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Bus Rapid Transit(civicsearch.org)
1 points by dougb5 3y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 3y ago
I feel like I might hold the record for the most absurd AWK success story, which I hope to write up some day. I wrote the front-end for what became my highest-traffic website (RhymeZone.com) in AWK back in 1996, and it ran for 27 years with
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Chronic Absenteeism(civicsearch.org)
1 points by dougb5 3y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 3y ago
"Superlative" can mean not just the grammatical category that includes "*est" words, but also, more informally, adjectives that live at an extreme, as "critical" does within the concept of "importance&quot
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by dougb5 3y ago
My guess is that ChatGPT does it because RLHF rewards strongly stated opinions, because that's what humans prefer. It's a kind of "sycophantic behavior" that researchers have observed in these models ( https:/&#x2F
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by dougb5 3y ago
Heh, or maybe in some general sense, everything is essential, crucial, vital, constantly pivoting, etc., and these are the best words to use. Some day ChatGPT will tell me "I told you so!"
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by dougb5 3y ago
After late '22 I noticed a surge in superlatives like "vital", "essential", "crucial", and "pivotal" in essays and cover letters from students. ChatGPT uses words like these whenever you ask it
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by dougb5 3y ago
Proven technology, maybe, but proven product-market fit for the kinds of things Facebook is using it for? Their linked blog about AI features gives examples "AI stickers" and image editing... cool, but are these potential multi-b
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by dougb5 3y ago
Something VC essays have in common with ChatGPT responses is that they make confident assertions in a million different subject areas without any citations at all. I was hopeful that the hyperlinks in this essay were citations to sources,
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by dougb5 3y ago
I don't have those expectations of current models. Your post says "I have no idea why anyone would want this" and so I explained why I might want this. It's not just me, there are many companies hawking AI therapists,
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by dougb5 3y ago
I don't know, some of the most satisfying conversations I've had with real people have lots of interruptions and cross-talk. Anyway, I'd much rather my friend interrupt me than let me prattle on about something stupid. Good d
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by dougb5 3y ago
I can't prove it, but I am quite sure NYT got a positive ROI on the acquisition of Wordle. They paid in the low single millions of USD, which isn't much for a brand as big as Wordle had become by then (2 million+ daily players) a

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