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by dougb5 3y ago
I have not! What's your preferred background reading on this?
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by dougb5 3y ago
I don't know what the right answer is to the copyright questions, but I hope that in 2024 we'll have a better attitude about the human labor that went into these models than "Data exists out there in the world" and the p
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Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research(nature.com)
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by dougb5 3y ago
Can you say more about what you mean by "50% odds" here?
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There's that time, soon after he took over Twitter, when he boosted a right-wing conspiracy theory that Paul Pelosi was attacked by a male escort ( https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-elon-musk-... ).
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by dougb5 3y ago
I was skeptical of that 40% too so I went looking for the basis for it. It's not totally unfounded: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management estimates that WordPress is used by 63% of all
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by dougb5 3y ago
I was starting to think the land acquisitions weren't that big a deal, especially relative to other CEOs. But then he has to go be all goon-like: "A couple of days before the interview, Benioff texted the same NPR colleague agai
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Poetry Will Not Optimize; Or, What Is Literature to AI?(read.dukeupress.edu)
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by dougb5 3y ago
Forecast someone else's deathbed, friend, or get to know me before making such a prophecy. I will regret lots of things but not that!
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by dougb5 3y ago
I feel the same way, although I've been cheered to learn of friends at OpenAI (and similar big tech companies) who are having kids. If they're having kids, maybe I'm wrong to be so anxious about the future. I'll be g
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by dougb5 3y ago
Hey I'll choose my "entire point in life", thank you.
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by dougb5 3y ago
I don't know if I'm more forgiving of inaccuracies in a conversational interface, but I'm way less likely to notice them in the first place. Especially since the current crop of RLHF'd models are so eager to please that
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CivicSearch: Search the content of city council meetings(civicsearch.org)
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by dougb5 3y ago
How did Sam Altman manage to Tom-Sawyer this into a "we" project? He's an individual seeking to raise money for a private sector venture in order to bend the world to his will, which seems to be to create his own version of
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by dougb5 3y ago
Google AdSense calls these "vignette ads". If you're an AdSense publisher, it's your choice whether to opt-in to this ad format, but Google strongly encourages it by constantly telling you how much money you're mi
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by dougb5 3y ago
I wonder if this "Help me write" will give different suggestions from the Google Docs "Help me write" feature, or from the dozens of other help-me-write features that are cropping up these days within text-oriented webap
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by dougb5 3y ago
"It’s just not a normal way to live regardless of how much people defend it lol" Growing up in the 80s I heard this all the time from the people around me, but in reference to being gay. I'm glad I shrugged that off.
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by dougb5 3y ago
Yeah, for sure, Google wants to show the answer on the results page, and for many search queries they're able to achieve this in one way or another -- either through the knowledge graph, the question-answering slop, or in the snippets
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by dougb5 3y ago
A big difference in my view is that OpenAI doesn't meaningfully "provide access" to all the text and art and everything in the world; rather, they suck the marrow out of all the text and art and everything in the world and u
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by dougb5 3y ago
"Politics and micromanagement have taken over, and HR processes take up far too much of everyone’s time." How is the HR the cause here? From the mismanagement that the author describes in the preceding paragraphs, it sounds lik
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by dougb5 3y ago
Understood, and that's at the core of the hustle here. At some point one of NYT's lawyers is going to point out the apparent contradiction in OpenAI saying that NYT is important enough that they need to take from them, but not im
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by dougb5 3y ago
"We had explained to The New York Times that, like any single source, their content didn't meaningfully contribute to the training of our existing models and also wouldn't be sufficiently impactful for future training."
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by dougb5 3y ago
Hold up, Google bought YouTube just a year and a half after YouTube went live. My memory is that the user-produced videos and memes were a way bigger draw than copyrighted material in the early days. That's not to say copyright infr
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by dougb5 3y ago
In his defense, he's literally listing the things he says he didn't know.
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by dougb5 3y ago
Sure, but your comment said "maintain", not "store". Even if storage were free, and even if you discount the value of the initial creation to zero, there are still nontrivial serving costs associated with many sites. Wh
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by dougb5 3y ago
That's great to hear that there's no cost to maintaining content! I'll tell AWS they've been overcharging me :)
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The article goes on to contradict itself, saying that Arena cites different reasons for the firing, and also that it denies the articles were "AI-generated" in the first place (the explanation they give is pseudonymous contractors
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by dougb5 3y ago
Stoicism is good, but as technologists we do have some some say in the matter. The people who are most willfully accelerating us toward their utopia will say things like: "A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a su
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Copyaid.it: Copyedit with AI from a CLI(copyaid.it)
1 points by dougb5 3y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 3y ago
Can you say more about what you've observed around "can't challenge your professors"? My professor friends would all be delighted to be challenged more in class. (The problem they're having now, especially post-

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